Images On CompuServe: The 'Best Of Bettmann' Online

摘要

Online databases are a bit like Professor Henry Higgins and Freddy Eynsford-Hill, Eliza Doolittle's loquacious suitors—very good at providing words, but not too adept at other forms of expression. Henry and Freddy are backward when it comes to displays of affection—databases are backward regarding displays of images: photographs, illustrations, artwork and the like. The best most online databases can do is indicate that a source publication contains a particular illustration.