If you walk into Firstsite, an innovative contemporary art gallery in Colchester, Essex, in the U.K., the last thing you would expect to see is a working copy shop. That’s your first clue that ...

Copying is the engine of civilization: culture is behavior duplicated. The oldest copier invented by people is language, by which an idea of yours becomes an idea of mine. The second great copying ...

The building is still standing on 37th Street in Astoria, Queens — home today to a pizza place and car service business. It was in a small second-story apartment there 75 years ago that Chester ...

NORWALK, CT—October 17, 2013—Written in a bold hand on a glass slide was the date and location: 10-22-38 Astoria. The copy might have been fuzzy, but it was still a copy. In fact, it was the world’s ...

The workplace has never been the same. Seventy-five years ago today, Chester F. Carlson invented the process of dry photocopying known as electrophotography. The innovation led to the creation of the ...

“… for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree ...

Like most modern investigative bodies, the 9/11 commission did much of its work by studying documents -- roughly 2.5 million pages’ worth of them. The vast majority of those documents were produced ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Chromacapsa print made on a xerox ...