Impact - Image Database Products to Review
Image Database Products to Review
This is a selected list of Image Databases and related multimedia products compiled
by Howard Besser. Students in his classes
will examine and write a short review paper on at least one of these.
Image DB Projects
Art and Architecture CD ROMs -- Art and Architecture Library
The following CD ROMs are available in the North Campus Art
and Architecture Library for in-library use. Click here
for their most recent list. Note: this library should have a computer to
run the PC disks (Frank Lloyd Wright) by Sept 22 at the latest; confirm with
Assistant Librarian Janine Odlevak (bundles@umich.edu) if you want to use these
before that date.
Image Databases -- good choices for student reviews
- The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion by William Allin Storrer (Luna)
- Frank Lloyd Wright: Presentation and Conceptual Drawings by Insight (Luna)
- The Great Buildings Collection by Kevin Matthews
- Great Paintings -- Renaissance to Impressionism, Frick Collection, New York (Digital Collections)
Multimedia CD ROMs -- not good choices for student reviews
- I Photograph to Remember by Pedro Meyer
- Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
- MAUS by Art Speigelman
Commercial CD ROMs -- Shapiro Library
The following CD ROMs will be available in the University Reserves room on
the 2nd floor of the Shapiro Undergraduate Library. Check the reserve list filed
there under this course to get the appropriate accession number for the CD ROM
you want. As of this writing, the room is open 8:30-22:00 M-Th, 10:00-17:00
Sat, and 13:00-22:00 Sunday. They may be checked out for a 24 hour period, and
need to be taken elsewhere (i.e. the DIAD Lab) to be viewed. These CD ROMs are
supplied courtesy of the
Film and Video department.
- Great Paintings -- Renaissance to Impressionism, Frick Collection,
New York
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Masterworks of Japanese Paintings, Joe Price collection
- Ancient Egyptian Art from The Brooklyn Museum
- 1000 Years of Russian Art, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
(probably not available until late in term)
Fine Arts CD ROMs from Microsoft
Image CD ROMs from DK Multimedia (dkmm@phantom.com)
- Eyewitness Virtual Reality (Cat), linking text to images (probably
not available until late in term)
- The Way things Work, linking text to images to text (probably
not available until late in term)
Multimedia CD ROMs/Image DBs
- With Open Eyes: Images from the Chicago Art Institute
Note: The following are not Image Databases but many of them share a number
of common characteristics with Image Databases.
- I Photograph to Remember by Pedro Meyer
- Amnesty Interactive
- Who Built America?
- Complete Maus
- First Person: Donald Norman
- First Emperor of China
- First Person: Marvin Minsky
- Annotated Alice
- Comic Book Confidential
- The Residents: Freak Show
- Planetary Taxi
- Criterion Goes to the Movies
- A World Alive
- Last Chance to See (Doug Adams)
- Truths & Fictions
Return to the Impact
World Wide Web Site.
Questions or comments? Please contact the Impact webmaster.
Last updated
04/09/99