Marilyn Ray

Project Description

This project explores the process of digitization and metadata creation through a curated collection of images relating the “eerie” and Halloween. This included 8 prints and a one of a kind drawing from a special edition of Stephen King’s The Shining, 11 covers of The New Yorker magazine Halloween editions, and 24 photographs of vintage Halloween costumes

Utilizing the New York Public Library Picture Collection in addition to the special edition of The Shining, I brought together this collection as an insight into the sublime and human being’s attraction to it. All images were found in physical form, and digitized using scanning machines on Pratt’s campuses. I then researched and catalogued each image.

The final result of this project was a digital collection of fascinating and sometimes off putting images, with rich embedded metadata for proper documentation and ease of sharing of these resources. It also contains the only digitized instantiation of well known horror artist Glenn Chadbourne’s one of a kind drawing The Ghost of Room 217.