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New Materials!

LED Wallpaper, Architects Paper
Source: Material ConneXion

Our latest shipment from Material ConneXion is here, so we have over 200 new samples of the newest innovative materials for you to examine! Cow rumen, stingray leather, paper made from reclamation of Detroit's brownfields, LED wallpaper, curve-corners for drywall - many sources of inspiration for creative applications by engineering, architecture, and art students and faculty.

Check them out in Imageworks, and for further information consult the Material ConneXion database.

Sunflower Remediation Paper, Co-Lab
Source: Material ConneXion

Stingray leather, Keleen Leathers, Inc.
Source: Material ConneXion

Posted by sgarrett at May 06, 2013 | Comments (0)

Enriching Scholarship

The Teaching and Technology Collaborative here at the University of Michigan is offering this year's Enriching Scholarship from May 6-11! Offered free to all UofM instructional faculty and staff, this annual event comprises over 120 workshops, discussions, seminars, a keynote speech and a poster session, all addressing the role of technology in effective teaching, learning, and research.

A number of sessions cover topics related to images, such as Images for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Copyright Basics, Omeka.net: Creating Online Exhibits in the Cloud, Drawing with Illustrator, Images for Sciences, Visualization in Virtual Reality, and more!

Posted by sgarrett at April 29, 2013 | Comments (0)

Albert Kahn Autochromes

Serbia
© Musée Albert-Kahn

Autochrome was the earliest commercially successful color photography process. Presented in 1904 by the Lumière brothers, it dominated the market until around 1935. One of the largest collections of autochromes was created by the French banker Albert Kahn, who sent photographers out across the world to document life in the early 20th century. The collection is held in the Musée Albert-Kahn in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb west of Paris. Check out their website here; the images illustrating this post are drawn from there.

Morocco
© Musée Albert-Kahn

More of this collection of over 72,000 images can be seen in the books The wonderful world of Albert Kahn and The dawn on the color photograph: Albert Kahn's archives of the planet available in the AAE Library. Also available to check out is a DVD at Imageworks, The civilians' story: Albert Kahn's archive of the planet which documents the impact of WWI on French civilian life.

France
© Musée Albert-Kahn

For more autochromes, check out the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog and search "autochrome".

Greece
© Musée Albert-Kahn

Posted by sgarrett at April 15, 2013 | Comments (0)

Go Blue!

Michigan players including Tim Hardaway Jr., right, and Nik Stauskas (11) celebrate after defeating Syracuse in their NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game on Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. Michigan won 61-56.
(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Michigan Men's Basketball is playing for the National Championship Monday evening! To find photos of their recent tournament games - and even from their last appearance in the Final in 1993 - check out AP Images, our source for news photos across the globe!

Michigan's Mitch McGary (4) dunks the ball against Syracuse's Jerami Grant (3) and Syracuse's C.J. Fair (5) during the first half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta.
(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Michigan's Trey Burke, right, and Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr. walk down the court during the second half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game against Syracuse, Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta.
(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Syracuse's Brandon Triche (20) charges into Michigan's Jordan Morgan (52) during the second half of the NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game Saturday, April 6, 2013, in Atlanta. Triche was called for charging.
(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

And from 20 years ago:

Kentucky's Dale Brown, left, tries to cut off Michigan's Jalen Rose (5) during a national semi-final game at the Final Four in New Orleans, April 3, 1993
© AP Photo

Michigan's Fab Five from left, Jimmy King, Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Jalen Rose and Ray Jackson pose in Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 31, 1991
© AP Photo

Posted by sgarrett at April 08, 2013 | Comments (0)

National Gallery of Art images

Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait, 1889
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney
Image source: National Gallery of Art, Washington

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has created a user-friendly digital image library of works in their collection. Most astonishing is that more than 22,000 of the images are open access, i.e. in the public domain! These are not all obscure images of 19th century landscapes - paintings by Monet, Leonardo, Manet, Van Gogh, Degas, Homer, Cassatt, Rogier van der Weyden are among the canonical works available!

The site features a Lightbox for users with annotation capability and print previews as well as downloads. Resolutions are high, appropriate for printing and digital presentation. Image data window provides a link to a fuller description on the museum's primary website. Several "collections" have already been created: the French Galleries, Self-Portraits, Gilbert Stuart and others. Go to NGA Images and start your own collection today!

H. Call, Prize Bull, 1876
Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
Image source: National Gallery of Art, Washington

Edouard Manet, The Railway, 1873
Gift of Horace Havemeyer in memory of his mother, Louisine W. Havemeyer
Image source: National Gallery of Art, Washington

Posted by sgarrett at March 27, 2013 | Comments (0)

Russian Constructivist architecture in Moscow

Thanks to a donation from Joy Ziegeweid, MUP '07, AAEL Images has a collection of 100 images of Russian Constructivist architectural monuments in Moscow. Taken in 2005, the images show the state of the buildings (and often their urban context) at that time. All images are licensed CC BY-SA, so anyone is free to use them with proper attribution!

We're showing some lower-resolution versions here. For the full collection with a range of image sizes, just enter "Ziegeweid" in the search box.