Tag Archives: Dunhuang Academy

A 100 year Dunhuang flood

By Harlan Wallach on 23 Jun 2011 – 9:17 pm
Location: (40° 2' 57"N x 94° 48' 23"E)

We’ve had the opportunity here in NUIT A&RT to work in China, on several cultural heritage projects, but our longest and deepest collaboration has been with the Dunhuang Academy. Today I received these photos from one of our associates, Peter Little of the Friends of Dunhuang Foundation. This past week the river that passes in [...]

By Harlan Wallach | Posted in China-2009, News, NUAMPS, Photography, Project | Also tagged , , | Comments (1)

NU Homepage highlights our work with the Dunhuang Academy

By Harlan Wallach on 20 Dec 2010 – 5:09 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

For the second time in as many days the NU homepage is highlighting work coming out of NUIT A&RT NUAMPS. Of course we’re honored to be able to collaborate with the Dunhuang Academy and have the opportunities that this work creates. The article authored by Chris Ganjani and Sherry Minton of NUIT communications is excerpted [...]

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Dunhuang Digitization Team @ NU

By Harlan Wallach on 14 Sep 2010 – 12:00 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

We’ve been involved with working with Chinese cultural institutions for well over ten years, and particularly the Dunhuang Academy, from Dunhuang, Gansu. Six members of the grotto digitization team have arrived for an intensive ten day trip. The picture above was snapped just a couple of minutes after they got off the plane at O’hare. [...]

By Harlan Wallach | Posted in General, NUAMPS, Photography | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

April 2010 training

By Stefani Foster on 13 Apr 2010 – 10:37 pm
Location: (-0° 0' 0"S x 0° 0' 0"E)

We began the final phase of training for the Consultation and Team Training grant with the Dunhuang Academy today.  We spent the morning getting updates on the Academy’s digitization progress, and introducing the concept of cross-polariztion in shooting reflective surfaces.  In the photo above, Harlan is in the middle of a theoretical discussion of coherent [...]

By Stefani Foster | Posted in China-2009, NUAMPS, Photography, Project | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

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