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Protesting student, Beijing, 1989 | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Harald Schmitt

The analogue photo archive of the journal stern with its 15 million prints, negatives and slides is considered as the visual memory of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1948 to 2001. Having acquired the archive in the year 2019, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek now makes the one millionth digitized picture available online in the specially set up portal www.stern-Fotoarchiv.de.

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Isolde Ohlbaum, self-portrait | © Isolde Ohlbaum/Bayerische Staatsbibliothek/Image Archive

An initial 21,000 pictures of the photographer Isolde Ohlbaum are already available online – in the new picture portal of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. The photographer Isolde Ohlbaum is one of the most famous chroniclers of the national and international literary and artistic scenes.

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Image-based similarity search on AI basis, segment recognition object gold coins | © BSB

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has just activated an image-based similarity search for bavarikon, Bavaria's digital treasure vault. The development from the library's own Munich Digitization Center (MDZ) searches through over three million image segments in the portal from photos, graphics, paintings and illustrations recognized through machine learning. Everybody interested in culture can search for motifs quickly and efficiently now, or can enjoy drifting from one image to another.

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Files with negatives and contact sheets with markings of the stern editorial office | © BSB/Hans-Rudolf Schulz

The stern Photo Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has been launched online. The library thus makes one of the most important visual archives of the Federal Republic accessible to the public. At stern-fotoarchiv.de the first 250,000 pictures of the total of around 15 million pictures are available for scholars, the public and commercial use. The portal is under construction and is expanded continuously.

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60th birthday of Hildegard Hamm-Brücher and well-wisher Walter Scheel, Munich, 1981 | © Isolde Ohlbaum/BSB/Image Archive

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek acquires the entire photographic work of Isolde Ohlbaum from 1970 up to the present, composed of black-and-white negatives, coloured slides and image files. The archive also includes voluminous correspondence with portrayed persons of the literary and cultural life.

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Conference

  • 27 – 28 April 2017
    Annual conference of the working group of public-sector image archives and Land media centers
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich, Friedrich-von-Gärtner Saal
    Programme  (PDF, 129 KB)

Participation in conferences

  • Conference of the working group of image archives, Marburg, April 2016
  • Participation in Archive Day, 8 March 2016 – Deutsches Museum Munich: Introduction of the collections and presentation of objects on "Mobility in transition"
  • Conference of the working group of image archives, Dresden, April 2015
  • Launch of DigiPortA, April 2015

Exhibitions and presentations

  • 2024: Wanderlust – A journey around the world in city maps 
    also as virtual exhibition
  • 2023: Into the Alps, but why? – The crossing of the Alps from the Middle Ages to the present in maps and photographs 
    also as virtual exhibition
  • 2022: The Olympic Games 72 in images. Photographs from the collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 
    also as virtual exhibition
  • 2021: MUNICH. LOOK here! The Image Archive of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 
    also as virtual exhibition
  • 2018: Built 175 years ago – destroyed 75 years ago. The building of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 
    also as virtual exhibition
  • 2018: Wanderlust – A journey around the world in city maps 
    also as virtual exhibition
  • 2017: Images, images, images – The photographic archives of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 
    also as virtual exhibition
  • 2016: Costume hats and tourists
  • 2015: Reverie and reality of library construction
  • 2014: Smile, please! – Press photographers
  • 2013: Oriental pastry
  • 2012: Masquerade
  • 2010: Costume hats and tourists
  • 2009: Charles Robert Darwin
  • 1997: From Armstrong to Zappa

Images, images, images

Virtual exhibition on the photographic archives of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

To the virtual exhibition
The architect Tino Walz in the Fountain Courtyard of the Residence destroyed by the war, Munich, 1945 (Photographic archive Tino Walz) | © BSB/ Image Archive

 

Picture credits
Images, images, images | © BSB/ Image Archive

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