If students are having a hard time distinguishing their autochrome from their photogram, here are three fantastic on-line resources that offer definitions and examples of photographic processes: Historic Photographs, from the British Library, is an on-line gallery tour of photography “in its formative years.” Exploring Photography, from the Victoria & Albert Museum, has a series…
LIFE (Library of Images From the Environment) database contains over 28000 high-resolution images from nature, including views of landscapes, plant and animal examples, as well as broader environmental issues like management and research. Hosted by the National Biological Information Infrastructure and the Center for Biological Informatics, the site is organized by subject (each with extensive…
Flower Power – flowing, psychedelic flower designs – very soothing (and reminiscent of The Wonderful World of Disney!) Mr. PicassoHead – pretty self-explanatory – potato heads in the style of Picasso, ca. 1920 Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Prints – change the colors on the famous print of Marilyn Monroe ArtPad – paint on a canvas, using…
The ACRL IRIG (Association of College & Research Libraries Image Resources Interest Group) Visual Literacy Standards Task Force is working on Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. To foster discussion about visual literacy, the Task Force has started a blog as a communication tool to provide information about the standards development process and progress…
We recently learned of two terrific FREE tools to help scholars at every level organize the research materials spread all over their computers into a 24/7 library. Both allow you to create a “cloud” of personalized resources that you can log in to from anywhere: Zotero plugs into Firefox and lets you ” collect, manage…
That’s the provocative title of the upcoming CHART (Computers and the History of Art) conference (in London, November 2010). Here’s their rationale for the title – full details of the conference on their website: “In recent decades the traditional practices of Art History have come increasingly under attack. This has led to changes so extreme…