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David M Choberka
Last Updated
May 27, 2020 3:28 p.m.

50 Items in this Learning Collection
TV Culture and Criticism
Portrait of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.
Resource with 51 media
Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Resource with 14 media
Black and African American Woman Artists
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
Resource with 26 media
All Objects from South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean
A print done in shades of gray of a home scene. A woman wearing a dress and holding a sun umbrella walks up the side stairs of a simple covered porch attached to the front of a wooden house. On the porch are two adult figures talking and three seated children, one of which sits on the stairs. A tall wooden fence with a door extends the front face of the house, out of which a young girl walks.
Resource with 381 media
American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century

Resource with 5 media
Arizona
Car being excavated in a desert scene.
Resource with 15 media
Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA

Resource with 175 media
Arts of Mexico

Resource with 158 media
Ashcan School

Resource with 29 media
Asian America in Art

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This drawing shows the head of a man. Sketched lines with shading around cheeks and eyes, which are closed, create the visage.  A faintly visible hat is sketched on the head. The drawing is signed (u.r.) "Anton Refregier." It may also say "San Francisco" although the handwriting is not clear.


This photograph depicts a view of a desert landscape with a fish hanging from the top of a thin pole in the foreground.  Behind the fish is a small cemetery that has mounds and crosses and in the distance are a few small buildings. Two more poles with fish hanging from them appear farther away in the image to the right of the fish in the foreground.
Photo of a woman in a floor-length and brightly striped formal gown standing in a multi-level staircase. The photo is taken from above and captures the woman, her companion, and the ornate handrail and stair runner.
An oil painting on canvas, this is an abstract painting predominantly using black and white oil paints. The background appears to be white paint with a black box on the upper half. The two colors are connected by a long black brushstroke down the middle. The brushstroke does not touch the edges of the canvas but instead takes up 2/3 of the canvas length-wise and 1/3 width-wise. 
This calm, horizontal abstract watercolor has registers of aquamarine, ochres, greens and dark blues. 

Collection with 10 items
Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media
Politics, and Social Reform in the US, 1901-1950

Resource with 234 media
California
This is a black and white photograph depicting an outdoor scene with dense vegetation. Leafy plants cover the ground in the front and taller bushes and trees are in the background. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Resource with 127 media
Caribbean Objects
A color print of a small, square door in a wall. The opened door casts a long shadow on the wall.
Resource with 105 media
Cars and Car Culture

Resource with 78 media
Celebrity
Bust-length portrait of Marilyn Monroe positioned in front of a red background; Haring used a poster of the actress onto which he applied sumi ink in a series of outlines, marks and drips over the face, neck, chest and shoulders.
Resource with 110 media
Chicago
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of the view looking through the inside of a Ferris wheel near the top. It is surrounded by the text: Set No. 8; Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Western Scenery; CHICAGO and VICINITY. 313. Looking through the Ferris Wheel, near the top.<br />
Resource with 25 media
Cowboys and Cowboy Art
A black and white phot of two men dressed in a Western style with a tent. One man is standing in front of the tent, while the other is sitting on a rolled up canvs in front of the tent.
Resource with 41 media
Detroit Metro

Resource with 131 media
Enrique Chagoya: Flipping Europe on its Head

Resource with 4 media
Exploring Identity and Identity Politics in American Culture
A blurred bust-length portrait of a man's head; he stares straight ahead, his mouth open.
Resource with 78 media
Film Noir, Visuality and Themes

Resource with 105 media
Folk, Self-taught, Amateur, and Visionary Art

Resource with 114 media
Indigenous North America Arts
Beige bowl, wider at the top, with a rim formed in a braided pattern.
Resource with 104 media
Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars

Resource with 15 media
Maine

Resource with 21 media
Manifest Destiny and the American West

Resource with 76 media
Era of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Muralist Movement

Resource with 83 media
Montana
Car up on lifts surrounded by evergreen trees. The car is part of an excavation.
Resource with 5 media
New Mexico
A smaller tree with light colored leaves amongst many taller trees, foliage on bottom.
Resource with 12 media
New York City
Elevated view of traffic on an urban street. 
Resource with 127 media
Nineteenth-century American and European Representations of Wildlife

Resource with 51 media
Political Protest in the U.S.
Two women holding signs at a protest march. They are talking together on the side of a street.
Resource with 22 media
Race, Gender, Class, and American Identity
This is a line drawing done in colors of red, orange, blue, yellow, brown and green, on white paper. In the top center portion of the sheet are the words, "A LIE". Below this are forms that resemble an egg, a slice of bacon, a piece of bread with a pat of yellow butter. Below these forms are some round shapes, labeled "flakes", a bowl and a carton of milk, labeled "milk".
Resource with 343 media
Recreation, Leisure, and Sport in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century America

Resource with 130 media
Religion in the Americas
This is a photograph of a wooden sculpture from Huexotla, Mexico. The sculpture depicts a man with a crown of thorns.
Resource with 48 media
Religious Encounters in the New World

Resource with 30 media
Representations and Misrepresentations of Indigenous America

Resource with 65 media
Rust Belt
Two orange buildings on snow-covered ground on either side of an unplowed road.&nbsp;
Resource with 167 media
School and Education in the U.S.

Resource with 24 media
Southern Landscapes and Cityscapes
A foggy landscape with silhouetted trees recedes from the left into the hazy distance and sky. The corners of the images are vignetted and the&nbsp;photograph is toned with tea, giving it a light brown-peach color.&nbsp;
Resource with 36 media
U.S. Civil Rights Movement
A black and white photograph of a man&#39;s profile against a glass door. He faces to the viewer&#39;s left, head lowered and eyes closed.
Resource with 38 media
U.S. Civil War

Resource with 42 media
U.S. Freedom Struggles of the Long 1960s
Two women holding signs at a protest march. They are talking together on the side of a street.


A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.

A group of African Americans praying while kneeling on a street. There is concrete pavement and a brick building behind them.
Collection with 6 items
U.S. Radicalism

Resource with 66 media
U.S. Vietnam War

Resource with 11 media
U.S. Wars
Half-length seated portrait of a bearded man, his face in profile, wearing a military uniform.
Resource with 67 media
World War I Posters from the U.S.
Text: New Consecration is the Duty of the Living so that Our Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain - (center) &quot;To such a task (Victory over German Autocracy and all it represents) we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to shed her blood and her treasure for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.&quot; - Woodrow Wilson - (left panel heading) Al Soldier&#39;s Farewell - Written on the Even of his Departure &hellip; - (right panel heading) A Mother&#39;s Comfort - Words of Plato Console Now Whose Son Fell in Battle &hellip; - (bottom) &quot;You ask me when peace will come. We went into this war for a great and worthy object. Peace will come when that object has been attained. Before God I hope it may not come until that time.&quot; - Abraham Lincoln In Darkest Days of Civil War - Issued by
Resource with 178 media
WPA Woman Artists
Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.
Resource with 41 media
Zombies, Skeletons, and the Undead

Resource with 101 media
Land and People

Copyright
Creative Commons by-nc-sa
Created by
David M Choberka
Last Updated
May 27, 2020 3:28 p.m.

51 Items in this Learning Collection
Detroit Metro

Resource with 131 media
Ann arbor and the university of michigan

Resource with 58 media
Architecture in Photography 1900-1948
View of an unfurnished room, whose walls are decorated with pilasters.
Resource with 40 media
Architecture in photography 1949-1989
Photograph of a white painted post holding up the tin roof of a porch.
Resource with 72 media
Arizona
Car being excavated in a desert scene.
Resource with 15 media
Art from Michigan

Resource with 215 media
Art of the Works Progress Administration WPA

Resource with 175 media
Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

Resource with 14 media
Aviation

Resource with 14 media
Berlin in the first half of the twentieth century
A man in uniform and heavy coat looks to his right as he stands posed next to a broken sign and broken mannequins in the rubble-filled street of Berlin.
Resource with 15 media
Bicycles

Resource with 16 media
Borders of Identity in North America
Photographed from atop a high ridge, this photograph depicts a view looking down into a winding desert canyon.
Resource with 87 media
British Empire
Façade of an Egyptian temple structure in a state of partial ruin.
Resource with 75 media
Politics, and Social Reform in the US, 1901-1950

Resource with 234 media
California
This is a black and white photograph depicting an outdoor scene with dense vegetation. Leafy plants cover the ground in the front and taller bushes and trees are in the background. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Resource with 127 media
Cars and Car Culture

Resource with 78 media
Chicago
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of the view looking through the inside of a Ferris wheel near the top. It is surrounded by the text: Set No. 8; Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Western Scenery; CHICAGO and VICINITY. 313. Looking through the Ferris Wheel, near the top.<br />
Resource with 25 media
Cities



A man in uniform and heavy coat looks to his right as he stands posed next to a broken sign and broken mannequins in the rubble-filled street of Berlin.
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images of the view looking through the inside of a Ferris wheel near the top. It is surrounded by the text: Set No. 8; Wanderings Among the Wonders and Beauties of Western Scenery; CHICAGO and VICINITY. 313. Looking through the Ferris Wheel, near the top.<br />
Man standing at a podium, crowd surrounding, one man on a horse.



This black and white stereoscopic image features two images showing the busy intersection of Piccadilly Circus in London. There are many horse-drawn carriages and wagons and pedestrians on the streets and walkways. It is surrounded by the text: Sample Set No. 1; C. H. Graves, Publisher and Gen’l Manager; 7505 Piccadilly Circus, London<br />
Elevated view of traffic on an urban street. 

Two abstracted, bust-length figures, one male and one female, look directly at the viewer with large smiles. The background is tan, and filled with swirling lines and scribbles. The face and eyes of each figure are outlined in thick green, the mouths in thick yellow. The &ldquo;whites&rdquo; of the eyes are red, while the pupils are circles of pale purple. Purple paint drips down from the eyes of the male figure, while the paint on the female figure drips upward.
Man seated at a table with Armageddon sign. He is wearing a striped shirt and looking at the camera. There is a New York City bus map posted on the column behind him.
View of an empty street in front of a men's clothing store.
Collection with 15 items
The Crowd
Man standing at a podium, crowd surrounding, one man on a horse.
Resource with 117 media
Detroit-Area Artists

Resource with 202 media
Environment, Ecology, Conservation

A mixed media assemblage consisting of welding goggles, rusted metal, a padlock, and two rusted bells hanging from a chain mounted on a wooden board with screws. The position of the objects, with goggles at the top, makes the assemblage look vaguely face-like.

Collection with 3 items
Environmental Justice

Resource with 95 media
Food Cultures

Resource with 218 media
Garbage Art - art made with and about garbage
A mixed media assemblage consisting of welding goggles, rusted metal, a padlock, and two rusted bells hanging from a chain mounted on a wooden board with screws. The position of the objects, with goggles at the top, makes the assemblage look vaguely face-like.
Resource with 74 media
Images of Jerusalem

Resource with 22 media
Immigration, Migration, and Displacement

Resource with 94 media
Ireland
This photograph depicts the darkened interior of a hut with a man and woman seated inside.
Resource with 17 media
Italy in 19th-Century Photography

Resource with 81 media
Landscape and Nature, Comparative and Historical

Resource with 376 media
London
This black and white stereoscopic image features two images showing the busy intersection of Piccadilly Circus in London. There are many horse-drawn carriages and wagons and pedestrians on the streets and walkways. It is surrounded by the text: Sample Set No. 1; C. H. Graves, Publisher and Gen’l Manager; 7505 Piccadilly Circus, London<br />
Resource with 76 media
Maine

Resource with 21 media
Manifest Destiny and the American West

Resource with 76 media
Medieval Mediterranean
This large bronze faucet features a peacock spigot and a lion-headed spout.
Resource with 29 media
The Modern Metropolis

Resource with 82 media
Montana
Car up on lifts surrounded by evergreen trees. The car is part of an excavation.
Resource with 5 media
New Mexico
A smaller tree with light colored leaves amongst many taller trees, foliage on bottom.
Resource with 12 media
New York City
Elevated view of traffic on an urban street. 
Resource with 127 media
Nineteenth-century American and European Representations of Wildlife

Resource with 51 media
Paris, Scenes and Artists, 19th and 20th Centuries

Resource with 143 media
Representations and Misrepresentations of Indigenous America

Resource with 65 media
Rust Belt
Two orange buildings on snow-covered ground on either side of an unplowed road.&nbsp;
Resource with 167 media
Seasons

Resource with 38 media
Southern Landscapes and Cityscapes
A foggy landscape with silhouetted trees recedes from the left into the hazy distance and sky. The corners of the images are vignetted and the&nbsp;photograph is toned with tea, giving it a light brown-peach color.&nbsp;
Resource with 36 media
Street Art, Graffiti Art, Urban Assemblage, and Collage
Two abstracted, bust-length figures, one male and one female, look directly at the viewer with large smiles. The background is tan, and filled with swirling lines and scribbles. The face and eyes of each figure are outlined in thick green, the mouths in thick yellow. The &ldquo;whites&rdquo; of the eyes are red, while the pupils are circles of pale purple. Purple paint drips down from the eyes of the male figure, while the paint on the female figure drips upward.
Resource with 27 media
Subways
Man seated at a table with Armageddon sign. He is wearing a striped shirt and looking at the camera. There is a New York City bus map posted on the column behind him.
Resource with 8 media
The City in Photography 1900-1948
View of an empty street in front of a men's clothing store.
Resource with 50 media
The Sea
This photograph depicts an aerial view of a coastline with waves approaching the shore.
Resource with 57 media
Tourism
A perspective shot of the Eiffel Tower from below, looking up. A building to the right has an ornate wrought iron balcony.
Resource with 85 media
Transportation

Resource with 394 media
Transportation



Man seated at a table with Armageddon sign. He is wearing a striped shirt and looking at the camera. There is a New York City bus map posted on the column behind him.
A perspective shot of the Eiffel Tower from below, looking up. A building to the right has an ornate wrought iron balcony.

Collection with 7 items
Urbanization
View of an empty street in front of a men's clothing store.
View of an unfurnished room, whose walls are decorated with pilasters.
Photograph of a white painted post holding up the tin roof of a porch.


Collection with 5 items

California

This is a black and white photograph depicting an outdoor scene with dense vegetation. Leafy plants cover the ground in the front and taller bushes and trees are in the background. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Joe Deal
Newport Beach, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
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Elliott Erwitt
Pennsylvania Dutch and Adidas, Santa Cruz, U.S.A., from "Recent Developments"
gelatin silver print on paper
14 in. x 11 in. ( 35.5 cm x 27.9 cm )
Gift of Lawrence and Carol Zicklin
View Object Record
Max Yavno
Muscle Beach
gelatin silver print on paper
7 15/16 in. x 13 7/16 in. ( 20.1 cm x 34.2 cm )
Museum Purchase
View Object Record
The photograph depicts a river lined with snow-covered banks and pine trees and a snow-capped mountain rising in the distance.  
Ansel Adams
Half Dome, Merced River, Winter, Yosemite Valley, California
gelatin silver print on paper
14 11/16 in x 19 5/16 in (37.31 cm x 49.05 cm);26 3/16 in x 32 3/16 in (66.52 cm x 81.76 cm);22 3/16 in x 28 1/16 in (56.36 cm x 71.28 cm)
Gift of Harry H. Lunn, Jr.
View Object Record
Ansel Adams
Edward Weston, Carmel Highland, California, from "Portfolio VI"
gelatin silver print on paper
29 in x 23 in (73.7 cm x 58.4 cm)
Museum Purchase
View Object Record
Jean Paul Slusser
Los Angeles Landscape
pencil and watercolor on paper
8 11/16 in x 10 ⅝ in (22.07 cm x 26.99 cm);14 ⅜ in x 19 ⅜ in (36.51 cm x 49.21 cm)
From the Collection of Jean Paul Slusser, Gift of Robert and Elizabeth Slusser
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This is a black and white photograph that depicts a rocky mountainside covered with scrub like vegetation. There is a ridge and sloping sides that run into the next slope, higher up the mountain. The view is seen from above and cropped so the whole mountainside cannot be seen.
Joe Deal
Near Beaumont, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
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This is a black and white photograph depicting a rocky landscape scene. There are sharp cliff walls, striated with grooves, and two dirt roads with tire tracks. In the center portion, there is a grouping of seventeen piles of dirt, all of a similar size, and scrub like vegetation. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Joe Deal
San Bernardino, California (I), from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
View Object Record
This is a black and white photograph depicting a rocky hillside in a barren landscape. There are craggy peaks in the background and some scrub type vegetation. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Joe Deal
Indio, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
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Car under excavation at Manzanar, California.
Patrick Nagatani
Toyota, Manzanar, Inyo County, California, U.S.A. (R18), from "The Ryoichi Excavations"
toned gelatin silver print on paper
6 in. x 96 in. ( 15.24 cm x 243.84 cm )
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
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This is a black and white photograph of the face of a rock wall with a long striation running through it. In the foreground there is stringy vegetation and on the right edge there is a cropped view of a wooden balcony suspended in space.
Joe Deal
Glendale, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
View Object Record
This photograph depicts a river lined by trees, while a granite cliff fills the background of the image. 
Ansel Adams
Merced River, Cliffs, Autumn, Yosemite Valley, California
gelatin silver print on paper
15 11/16 in x 19 1/2 in (39.85 cm x 49.53 cm);22 1/16 in x 28 1/8 in (56.04 cm x 71.44 cm);26 1/8 in x 32 1/8 in (66.36 cm x 81.6 cm)
Gift of Harry H. Lunn, Jr.
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Cemetery Gates (1983/1.295.12)
Rocking Chair (1983/1.295.5)
Miners' Union Hall (1983/1.295.9)
Ward's Cemetery (1983/1.295.3)
Cameron House (1983/1.295.2)
Powell Street (1983/1.296)
Marilyn (1969/1.84)
Marilyn (1969/1.85)
San Francisco, CA (2013/2.198)
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San Francisco (2000/2.158.7)
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La Brea (2017/2.191)
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