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 Fall 1995
Image Database Class will examine and write a short
review paper on at least one of these.
Image DB Projects
Art & Architecture CD ROMs -- Art & Architecture Library
The following CD ROMs are available
in the North Campus
Art & 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 & 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