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

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!

Register for courses now, at the Enriching Scholarship site.

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

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

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

Il'ja Alexandrovic Golosov, Zuev Workers' Club, Moscow, 1927-1929
© Joy Ziegeweid
Source: AAEL Digital Images

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.

Aleksey Shchusev, Narkomzem [People's Commissariat for Agriculture], Moscow, 1928-1933
© Joy Ziegeweid
Source: AAEL Digital Images

Ivan Nikolaev, Communal House of the Textile Institute, Moscow, 1929-1931
© Joy Ziegeweid
Source: AAEL Digital Images

Grigorii Barkhin and Mikhail Barkhin, Izvestia Building (Variant II), Moscow, 1925-1927
© Joy Ziegeweid
Source: AAEL Digital Images

If you work at all with images - and all of us do, right? - you'll need to know about copyright and fair use. If you're not a lawyer and steeped in the details of the law, you'll likely find reviewing the issues every few months to be helpful. Here are a few sites with clear and succinct explanations:

Copyright and Fair Use and How it Works for Online Images from the Social Media Examiner

The Digital Image Rights Computator from the Visual Resources Association

Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law? a free digital comic book from Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain

Of course, we at Imageworks and at the University Library's Copyright Office are quite happy to help you out as well!

The Netherlands Institute in Turkey is publishing the photo archive of a renowned scholar of Ottoman monuments in southeastern Europe. Machiel Kiel's images from the 1960s-1990s - slides, negatives, and photographs - are being digitized and made freely available, with appropriate credit to Kiel.

These records of the architectural heritage of the region are even more valuable given that many have since suffered in the ensuing time period. Currently online are monuments in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. Future additions will include monuments in Turkish Thrace and Christian monuments and mural painting from the Ottoman period.

Leonardo Nierman, Flame of Wisdom, 2006
Source: President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art: The Collection: Medical Campus

About this work, the artist says: "Remembering my emotions, my original thought of creating this Flame of Wisdom during my visit to your campus and playing with the idea of doing a sculpture, I felt that it would be a great opportunity to pay tribute to the wonderful minds that live in the campus crystallizing so many wonderful dreams that will enrich mankind until the end of time."

Yitzhak Assour, Untitled ("I will exercise my art solely for the good of my patients"), 2009
Source: President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art: The Collection: Medical Campus

Douglas Holis, Rotations, 2009
Source: President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art: The Collection: Medical Campus

This kinetic screen memorializes the transplant team that died during a life-saving mission in 2007.

NOAA's GOES-13 satellite image from 9:01 a.m. EST, February 8, 2013
Image credit: NASA

Weather is always a topic of conversation, and more so when there's a dramatic storm imminent. The talk lately is of a western front meeting up with a low-pressure system over the Atlantic to create a classic nor'easter. This satellite image from NASA is a graphic display of the weather pattern. Check out NASA's multimedia page for a wealth of images and video about the earth and space!

ARTstor, the immense digital image library subscribed to by our University Library, is always adding new collections to support research and teaching in the whole range of humanities, arts, and social sciences. The latest addition is that of the Courtauld Gallery: 500 of a projected 8,100 images of the museum's canonical works of western European art! We're displaying a few images from their collection; for more check this link. And remember, by logging in to ARTstor, you have access to amazing high-resolution images and their presentation software.

Marx Reichlich, Portrait of a Woman holding a Lily-of-the-Valley and a Pansy, 1510-1520
The Courtauld Gallery, London
© The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Image source: ARTstor

Agostino di Duccio, Virgin and Child, 1400-1499
The Courtauld Gallery, London
© The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
Image source: ARTstor

Subscribe to "Object of the Day" from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - or just bookmark the page. Every day an item from the museum's collection is featured, with a quick description. Featured objects range from posters to textiles to book covers to fans. We're partial to books, so here's a sampling of them:

Detail of binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London, ca. 1907.
Wine, women, and song; mediaeval Latin students’ songs now first translated into English verse, by John Addington Symonds.
Chatto & Windus, 1884. Smithsonian Libraries. PA8164 .S98.

Plates 5-7 from De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, by Chevreul, Michel Eugène.
Published by Pitois-Levrault et cie., 1839. Smithsonian Libraries. ND1488 .C52 1839.

Book cover: Selected Poems by Ezra Pound. Designed by Alvin Lustig.
Gift of Susan Lustig Peck. 2001-29-7.

Mark di Suvero, Orion, 2009
Source: President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art

Walking down State Street, it's hard to miss this large sculpture in front of the new wing of the UM Museum of Art!

Charles "Chuck" Ginnever Daedalus, 1977
Source: President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art

The "five parallelograms ... fan out and enclose a large concave space nearly eleven feet deep... The effect is of a serenity that is at odds with its size." Its original site on the west side of the building was selected so that the "pedestrian traffic flow" would "completely surround the sculpture, allowing people to look at it from every angle, as the piece changes dramatically, depending on the angle from which you look at it." Now on the south side of the building, its siting offers pedestrians a full view.

Tony Rosenthal, '36 The Cube "Endover", 1968
Source: President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art

Possibly the most beloved sculpture on campus, The Cube easily rotates with a slight push from a passerby.

Marshall Fredericks, American Eagle, 1950
Source: President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art: The Collection: South Campus

"At its August 1945 meeting, the Board of Regents received a petition from a group of Detroit alumni to rename Michigan Stadium in honor of former coach Fielding Yost. They submitted supporting letters from graduates including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy and New York Gov. Thomas Dewey. But Yost suggested in a letter that, instead, a war memorial should be erected to honor the university’s men and women who gave their lives for the country. In keeping with his suggestion, the American Eagle memorial, executed by Michigan artist Marshall Fredericks, stands at the southwest corner of the stadium."

Louis Marinaro, Wave Maker, 1988
Source: President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art: The Collection: South Campus

The sculptor describes it as "commemorating the time in our lives as well as the time of season in which we collect the fruits of our labors just as the farmer and the worker reap the benefits of their work. The female figure and the evergreen tree are images in this work intended to glorify the human and natural spirit of this earth. They signify the cycle of life (figure) and its everlasting qualities (evergreen). The reflection of the tree is meant as a metaphor for the fruits of our labors as they are a reflection of what we are and what we make."

Dan Heikkinen, Wolverine 2001
© Renée Massarello
Source: AAEL Digital Image Collection

Heikkinen, Class of 1981, also created the wolverine sculpture in Crisler Arena.

Beverly Pepper, Triad Ritual 1993
Source: President’s Advisory Committee on Public Art: The Collection: North Campus

Artist Beverly Pepper designed the cast-iron forms to "stand like gods and goddesses against the sky."

Alice Aycock, Summaries of Arithmetic Through Dust, Including Writing Not Yet Printed
1992
© Renée Massarello
Source: AAEL Digital Image Collection

Aycock's drawings for this work line the wall in the Duderstadt Center, just east of Mujo Café.