Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg
Synopsis:
This short video introduces the Harvard Fine Arts Library’s Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection, which comprises over 60,000 of the noted curator’s research and teaching slides. The collection is in the process of being digitized and made open access, and this talk both describes the collection and how and why it can be used for the study and teaching of Islamic art.
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Reference:
McWilliams, Mary, “Sketches in Appreciation of Stuart Cary Welch,” Mind, Heart, and Hand: Persian, Turkish, and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Art Museums, 2004). 
Website:
The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic and South Asian Photograph Collection
Citation:
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, “The Stuart Cary Welch Islamic & South Asian Photograph Collection,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 28 August 2020.
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg is the Librarian for Islamic Art and Architecture at the Harvard Fine Arts Library, where she manages the library’s world-class collection of books, photographs, and other rare items for teaching Islamic art. She earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 with her dissertation exploring female characters in Arabic popular storytelling and maintains an interest in popular culture and popular devotional imagery. She is the Images, Copyright, and References Coordinator at Khamseen.