November 11th, 2009 by Heather Cummins
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor) offer a free image resource called the ImageBase, which contains over 82,000 images from their collections. The ImageBase uses Zoomify to allow users to zoom into high-resolution images.
Images from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are also searchable in the Academy of Art University’s LUNA collection. The de Young and Legion of Honor Museums have contributed almost 18,000 high-resolution images to the Amica Library. To access images just from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in LUNA:
- Select the LUNA Digital Image Collections from the Digital Images Webpage
- Select the Amica Library (from the collections list on the left of the LUNA database)
- Select advanced search (found at the top-right of the LUNA database)
- Select “AMICA Contributor” from the dropdown menu of the “find this exact wording” field and begin typing in “Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco”
- Select search
- This search should retrieve 17,687 images from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco collections
For additional assistance with finding specific images and instruction on how to use LUNA, contact Heather Cummins, Visual Resources Librarian, at the Academy of Art University library.
Tags: image databases
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October 21st, 2009 by Heather Cummins
The VADS: Visual Arts Data Service digital image collection added another 4,000 images to its Design Council Slide Collection, which now holds over 13,000 images reflecting British design since 1944. “The Design Council was established in 1944 and is the UK’s national strategic body for design.” The collection contains images of furniture, toys, appliances, posters, and textiles. (VADS Blog)
Prototype child's chair designed by Stuart Walker., c. 1968.
To access the Design Council Slide Collection visit the VADS Collections Webpage and select the “images” link below the Design Council Slide Collection.
The Academy of Art University links to VADS on the Digital Images Webpage. VADS is a free, Online image database that contains over 100,000 images that are copyright cleared for educational and research usage. Images found in VADS are organized into 44 distinct collections that range from textiles to graphic design to photography.
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October 14th, 2009 by Heather Cummins
The Historical Anatomies on the Web (HAW) image database is a wonderful resource for students seeking anatomical, skeletal, and muscular examples of the human body. The US National Library of Medicine publishes HAW. Images are scanned from important anatomical atlases in the library’s collection. To begin searching the image database, select the “Browse Titles” link on the database’s homepage and click on one of the thumbnails listed on the left of each atlas’ title. To view one of the thumbnails as a high-resolution image, click on the “Large JPEG” link below the thumbnail.
Students seeking more anatomy resources can also search the Academy of Art University library’s “Fine Art – Anatomy” subject guide.
From Albinus' "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani" (1747)
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October 8th, 2009 by Heather Cummins
Irving Penn, one of the greatest 20th century photographers, died on October 7, at the age of 92. Penn worked for Alexey Brodovitch, long-time art director for Harper’s Bazaar magazine, in the late 1930’s and began photographing fashion subjects for Vogue in the 1940’s. These photographs were “noted for their formal qualities” and were “enhanced by elegance of line, simplified lighting and radically minimal settings” (Rule). Penn had his first retrospective at the MOMA in 1984.
The Academy of Art University library has several images by Penn in the LUNA image database and books about his photography.
Irving Penn
Amy Rule. “Penn, Irving.” Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 8 Oct. 2009 <http://0-www.oxfordartonline.com.library.academyart.edu:80/subscriber/article/grove/art/T066182>.
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October 1st, 2009 by Heather Cummins
Reed College in Portland, Oregon, has published a digital library of artists’ books called Artists’ Books. The collection is organized into four categories: livre d’artistse, avant-garde, conceptual, and contemporary. You may also browse the collection by artists’ names or book titles.
The Academy of Art University has several books on the subject of artists’ books. Here are a few titles that we have in collection:
Artist/author: Contemporary Artists’ Books
The Century of Artists’ Books
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September 13th, 2009 by Heather Cummins
Create dynamic slide shows with LUNA- the new digital image database managed by the Academy of Art University library.
LUNA is an easy-to-use image database and presentation-making tool that supports Academy of Art University faculty teaching by creating amazing visual presentations that are ideal for classroom and research use!
From the library’s Website, faculty may access LUNA by selecting the LUNA Digital Image Collections link or by going to the Find Resources tab, selecting Digital Images, and then selecting LUNA Digital Image Collections.
When: Thursday, September 24, 10 – 11:30 a.m.
Where: Room 575, 5th Floor, 180 New Montgomery
RSVP: Contact Heather Cummins, Visual Resources Librarian, (415) 618-3761, hcummins@academyart.edu
If you cannot make it, please call to schedule a one-on-one training session with
Heather Cummins, Visual Resources Librarian, (415) 618-3761, hcummins@academyart.edu.
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September 3rd, 2009 by Heather Cummins
Welcome to Image Aspects, the new visual resources blog at the Academy of Art University. I will use this blog to review image resources that we host at the library and ones that are free and available on the Web. I hope to use this blog as a way to connect Academy of Art University students, faculty, and staff to presentation making tools and image search engines. I will also make announcements related to the activities I do here in the library as the Visual Resources Librarian.
To access the LUNA Academy of Art University and Amico Collections from the library’s Website:
Select LUNA Digital Image Collections from the Online Resources drop-down menu or select Digital Images from the drop-down menu from the Find Resources tab. The LUNA database is a new image database and presentation-making tool that I am very excited to present to users this fall semester. Please contact me, Heather Cummins, anytime with questions about how to search or use LUNA this semester- I look forward to assisting faculty and students create presentations and discover new images to help with their research and course assignments.
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