Slide Library- Ailsa Lishman

I really enjoyed the talk from John Davies about the slide library, and I think it's great that he's so enthusiastic about saving the collection. I think it would be such a shame for a collection of over 300,000 slides to go to waste. I'm really keen to try and make use of slides within my project. 

It's given me all sorts of ideas about making my own slides, using acetates etc, and projecting them, using layerying, projecting imagery onto walls to draw from. 

www.flickr.com/photos/mmuvisualresources is the link to look at just a section of the collections!

I went in myself to ask about slides to do with gardens, and the amount that he came up with was amazing and I ended up spending at least 2 hours going though them all and choosing 30 slides to take out. He was so helpful with it all, you can take the slides out for 2 weeks, but that can be extended if you want, and also you can use the projectors and take them to the studio to draw from etc just need to check when it's free first! 

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It's really worth just asking him if there's anything at all relevant to your project just to get new inspirations. I found some images I would have never thought to look for before if I hadn't had a look through the slides.