new images – Claude Lorrain

Image: Claude Lorrain, Seaport with the Embarkation of Saint Ursula, 1641, oil on canvas, The National Gallery, London. Photo © The National Gallery, London. The National Gallery, http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-seaport-with-the-embarkation-of-saint-ursula/*/key-facts.

Paintings by seventeenth-century French painter Claude Lorrain. Landscapes, seascapes, mythological and biblical scenes.

Databases: UW Image Bank, MDID

Keywords: claude lorrain

National Gallery of Art makes works of art available in public domain

Image: Paul Gauguin, Te Po (The Long Night), 1894/1895, woodcut printed in black and gray by Pola Gauguin in 1921, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. NGA Images, http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/tinfo_f?acc=1944.2.31.

The National Gallery of Art launched NGA Images, which implements an open access policy for digital images of works of art that the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are now available free of charge for any use, commercial or non-commercial. Users do not need to contact the Gallery for authorization to use these images. They are available for download at the NGA Images website. See Policy Details for specific instructions and notes for users.

Visual Literacy Standards published by ACRL

New Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education  have been published by the Association of College and Research Libraries. The Standards include specific learning outcomes aimed at helping students work more effectively with visual materials in an academic context. The Standards address exploring image resources, image research, interpreting & analyzing images, evaluating images and sources, using visual materials in academic projects, producing visual media, and citing and using images ethically.

Some example learning outcomes from the Standards:

Performs image and topical research concurrently, with each informing the other in an iterative resource-gathering process (2.2.f)

Describes cultural and historical factors relevant to the production of an image (e.g., time period, geography, economic conditions, political structures, social practices) (3.2.a)

Critiques persuasive or manipulative strategies that may have been used in image production to influence interpretation  (4.1.c)

Integrates images into projects purposefully, considering meaning, aesthetic criteria, visual impact, and audience (5.1.c)

Consider including visual literacy learning outcomes in your assignments. You may find students are better able to understand the role of visual materials in their academic work, and produce higher-quality projects with more meaningful and relevant visual content.

images of the University of Washington

Do you need images of the University of Washington, UW events, or people? The UW Marketing Department has a photo database available on their website. The UW Libraries Digital Collections has a collection of historical UW images, and there are several Flickr groups with UW content. Check out these and other resources on the Pacific Northwest page of the Images Guide.

downloading images from ARTstor – login now required

ARTstor now requires all users to log in before downloading images. Users must first register for an ARTstor account (from on-campus or logged in through the proxy server), then log in to ARTstor.

Instructions for registering for an ARTstor account are available here: http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Registering

visual search engines

Do you have an image, and you’d like to find other images that look like it? Or find out where the image might have come from? Or find out more information about it? Try a visual search!

Google Images just launched a new visual search feature – just drag and drop an image file into the search box, and Google will search the web for similar images. (Try Firefox if this doesn’t work for you in IE.)

 

TinEye Reverse Image Search is another visual search engine.  TinEye is especially useful for finding higher resolution versions of the image you have, images that may be altered versions of your image, or to see how your image is being used on the web.

Another type of visual search engine is Multicolr Search Lab. Multicolr allows you to search Flickr Creative Commons images by color. This is the tool to use if you need images with a particular color or color combination for your project.

For more on visual search engines, see the Starting Points page of the UW Libraries’ Images Guide.

new “Tools” page on Images Guide

Check out the new “Tools” page on the Libraries’ Images Guide.  Information and links to a variety of tools for working with images:

• web-based image editing tools
• web-based presentation and viewing tools
• online image storage and sharing
• image bookmarking

And for faculty – additional ARTstor and MDID image presentation, organization, storage, and sharing options.