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Art Full Text
Featuring full-text articles (from more than 300 journals), indexing and abstracting of an international array of publications, Art Full Text™ is a comprehensive resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, architecture and much more.

Full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995
High-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals
Indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations
Indexing of nearly 200,000 art reproductions
Academic Search Complete
Provides full text coverage to nearly 9,100 journals, including over 7,900 peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more. Full-text coverage dates back to 1985 and is updated daily.

JSTOR
Used by millions for research, teaching, and learning. With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, plus over 40,000 ebooks, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.

Project MUSE
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 600+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Biography in Context
Provides biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database also provides full-text articles from over 350 magazines and newspapers and includes more than 27,000 images plus links to Web sites tied to the lives and works of the subjects.

Some 50,000 new and/or updated biographies are added each year, as well as daily status updates of existing subjects

ARTstor Images for Your Presentation/Paper

Matthew Brandt, American. 2007. Salton Sea C1. Photograph. Place: The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund. https://library.artstor.org/asset/ANGAIG_10314015382.

One place to find images for your presentation or paper is the database, ARTstor . Log on to ARTstor, create a personal account and create an image group . Then view information on how to Export to Power Point

You can search ARTstor by the name of an art work, by geography, by classification (for example, photography), or by collection (for example, Center for Creative Photography). Use the Advanced Search to limit by date.

Helpful videos on using ARTstor can be found on UTube

Books

Digital Photography for Dummies by Julie Adair King
ISBN: 9781119609643
Publication Date: 2020-02-05
This book introduces you to the camera settings and techniques that separate okay pictures from frame-worthy portraits. It then explains how to apply those skills to capturing your own portraits, landscape shots, and high-action photos.
Understanding Your Digital Camera by Tim Savage
ISBN: 9781847978035
Publication Date: 2014-09-30
This book has been written for photographers who want to switch their camera off automatic mode and take control of its image-making potential. With visual examples throughout, it explains how to use the camera's settings and functions to take better and more creative photographs.
Digital SLR Photography by Robert Correll
ISBN: 9781119291398
Publication Date: 2017-01-10
The complete beginner's guide to DSLR photography It doesn't matter if your camera says Canon, Nikon, or Sony on the outside. If a passion for photography is on your inside, this all-encompassing guide will be your new best friend. Clocking in at over 600 pages, this no-nonsense guide covers it all!

Read Aperture on Flipster

Aperture
Each issue examines one theme explored in two distinct sections: Words, focused on the best writing surrounding contemporary photography, and Pictures, featuring immersive portfolios and artist projects.

Getting Started

Locate artists' works on the Internet using a search engine such as Google; or visit a site that collects information about works from over 180,000 artists: Artnet.com

Artsy, a resource for collection and education, aims to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.

ARTnews (available on Flipster) reports on the art, personalities, issues, trends and events shaping the international art world.

Exhibitions & Excusions

Culver City Galleries
Culver City has a strong concentration of great galleries including Suzanne Vielmetter, Honor Fraser, and Blum & Poe.
Bergamot Station
Bergamot Station is a unique and unparalleled collection of fine art galleries. Throughout the year Bergamot Station hosts vibrant community and cultural activities and facilitates educational, non-profit and charitable events.
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
For more than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born in 1951) has made experimental and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: family, desire, mortality, memory, and nature’s indifference to the human condition. Exhibition at The J. Paul Getty Museum,November 16, 2018–February 10, 2019
West of Modernism: California Graphic Design 1975-1995
This exhibition is part of LACMA’s Graphic Design Initiative, an interdepartmental project spearheaded by the Decorative Arts and Design and the Prints and Drawings departments.
Pacific Standard Time LA/LA
A far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Led by the Getty, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is the latest collaborative effort from arts institutions across Southern California.
Photography in Argentina, 1850 - 2010: Contradiction and Continuity
Comprising three hundred works by sixty
artists, this exhibition examines crucial periods and aesthetic movements in which
photography had a critical role, producing—and, at times, dismantling—national
constructions, utopian visions, and avant-garde artistic trends.
Mapping Space: Recent Acquisitions in Focus
A display of photographs from the Museum’s collection that explore the work of artists who have departed from the traditional rules of landscape composition to document specific geographic locations in new ways. Uta Barth, Robert Kinmont, Richard Long, Mark Ruwedel, and Wang Jinsong use photography to describe natural and built environments through unspecified modes of measurement and intuitive use of perspective. Exhibition at The J. Paul Getty Museum, February 26–July 14, 2019

Watch DVDs

Art 21 : art in the twenty-first century. Season 8 by PBS
Call Number: VIDEO .A7318 DVD ED/DOC
ISBN: 1627897844
Publication Date: 2016
Discover the stories, ideas, and methods behind today's most compelling artists; features sixteen artists from North America (Chicago, Mexico City, Los Angeles, and Vancouver).

Online Software Tutorials

LinkedIn Learning (Formerly Lynda.com)
The LinkedIn Learning Online Training Library at Pepperdine University is a professional development resource available to all current faculty, staff, and students. Lynda.com offers over 1,000 online courses on a wide array of computer software.

Note that Lynda.com is known as LinkedIn Learning as of August 2019.

http://www.photoshoptutorials.ws/

http://www.photoshopstar.com/

http://prodesigntools.com/adobe-cs6-tutorials-free-videos-all-products.html

ArtNews

Founded in 1902, ARTnews is the oldest and most widely circulated art magazine in the world

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Course Description

Students will obtain a unique experience of using a digital camera as a medium for visual expression, with a focus in aspects of art and design. The class will explore digital photography as a tool applied in subjects such as journalism, new media, and fine art.

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