Projects and Research

Image Captioning in Hostile Conditions
Benchmarking AI models for automatically captioning Images found in manufacturer sample books.

Darkroom to Data
A symposium on new methods for exploring the material history of photography.

Paperbase
Paperbase is the LML's principal tool for visualizing patterns across its reference collection of photographic papers.

LML's collection in LUX
LUX is Yale's innovative cross collections discovery platform that features the LML's reference collection of photographic papers.

Arnot
Get raw collection data using the LML catalog number (a drill down compliment to LUX and Paperbase).

History of Photographic Paper Manufacturers
A collection of essays on the history of photographic paper manufacturers.

TIPPs
TIPPs is a materials-focused database that allows users to explore the hundreds of photographic samples tipped into international photography journals and manuals published between 1855 and 1900.

The LML Backprinting Project
This is a catalogue of manufacturer printing (usually logo and brand information) applied to the reverse of photographic papers. This information can sometimes be useful in dating prints and identifying papers.

Texture Matching
Search through texture images and find nearest matches

The View From Here
A collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, the View From Here is a photography course that provides access to the material history of photography through the cellphone camera for New Haven area high school students.

Material Immaterial: Photographs in the 21st Century
A 2019 symposium at Yale featuring presentations on the relevance of the physicals photograph in light of fundamental ongoing changes in visual culture.