Image Use: Your Obligations
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CODE OF BEST PRACTICES IN FAIR USE IN THE VISUAL ARTS This link opens in a new windowWhen is it ok to use copyrighted images in your creative and academic work? The College Art Association (CAA) has compiled a list of best practices for students, professors, writers, artists and art professionals to use in their work.
Image databases
Carol M. Highsmith. "Rusty Bolt Store, Seligman, Arizona." 2009. Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, jpeg, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/highsm/item/2010630175/ (accessed March 17. 2015).
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JSTOR Images Search This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive digital library containing images of artworks, photographs, architecture, decorative arts, rare books, and items from popular culture. Includes images from the Artstor collection, as well as other collections.
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Bridgeman Images This link opens in a new windowThis image archive provides over 100,000 images of fine and decorative art; scope is all periods, movements, styles, and themes in the history of art. Artworks from public and private collections are represented.
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Adforum This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 35,000 advertisements in all media: TV, radio, cinema, Internet, print and outdoor ad campaigns. Also includes over 18,000 advertising agency sources, news and other information related to the advertising industry. Users can search for ads by keyword, media type, product, brand name, business sector, agency, country, celebrity or award.
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Art Resource This link opens in a new windowSearchable archive of images from major museums; emphasis is on twentieth century fine art. Images are for purchase and contain watermarks--should be used for browsing only.
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Maker Hub in Lauinger Library This link opens in a new windowThe Maker Hub (located on the first floor of Lauinger Library) provides access to specialized tools, like 3D printers, laser cutters, and fabrication supplies. It is designed to help self-directed inventors and creative teams gather and share resources and knowledge. Among its tools and supplies, the Maker Hub has 150,000 fine art slides available for creative reuse.
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Google Arts & Culture This link opens in a new windowHigh-res images of artworks housed in participating museums, including the Tate Gallery, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Uffizi, Florence.
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Pexels This link opens in a new windowIncludes free stock photography, much of which is licensed under a CC0 License -- free to use for any purpose without attribution.
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Unsplash This link opens in a new windowIncludes lots of free to use stock images. Includes both rights-free and rights-restricted images.
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Wikimedia Commons This link opens in a new windowWikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed media content. Wikimedia Commons has a page where you can browse all of their Creative Commons licensed images.
Streaming Media
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
20,000 streaming documentaries, educational films, and instructional videos from the Films Media Group. Collections include Humanities & Social Sciences and Archival Films & Newsreels.
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Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new windowStreaming video of 1,000 documentaries on race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. From Alexander Street Press.
Museums
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Georgetown University Art Collections This link opens in a new windowSearch more than 21,000 records of individual objects in the Georgetown University Art Collections. They include predominantly works on paper in addition to paintings, sculpture, and decorative objects. About a third of the records have accompanying images, with more added over time. The images are provided for study and academic use only.
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National Gallery of Art Images This link opens in a new windowNGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
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British Art Museum This link opens in a new windowAccess to over 2 million images. Option to have high-resolution images sent to you as long as they're for educational use.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art This link opens in a new windowMore than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works in The Met collection are available.
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Getty Museum This link opens in a new windowThe Getty makes available, without charge, more than 99,000 images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required, however images must be attributed to the Getty Open Content Program.
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Google Arts & Culture This link opens in a new windowGoogle has collaborated with 17 museums to view artwork on display. Navigate virtually through galleries, examine individual artwork, or create an artwork collection.
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Smithsonian Open Access This link opens in a new windowThe Smithsonian provides access to nearly 3 million images from across the Smithsonianâs 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.
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Victoria & Albert Museum This link opens in a new windowThese images of art from the collections of the V&A are available for certain non-commercial uses, including some academic publishing. Read the full Terms of Use to see if your use qualifies.
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Wellcome Library - Collections This link opens in a new windowBrowse the History of Medicine and Medical collections or the Digitized content."The Library's digital collections cover a wide variety of topics, including asylums, food, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health and war."
Special Digital Collections
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Duke Digital Collections This link opens in a new windowDigitized historic photographs, advertisements, texts & more from Duke's unique library collections.
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George Eastman Museum Collections This link opens in a new windowPhotography and moving images as well as film and camera technology are featured.
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Library of Congress Images on Flickr This link opens in a new windowRights information displayed prominently on each record.
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Life Magazine This link opens in a new windowFully digitized, browsable magazines from 1930-70s.
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New York Public Library Digital Image Collection This link opens in a new windowSpanning a wide range of historical eras, geography, and media, NYPL Digital Collections offers drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, videos, audio, and more. Encompassing the subject strengths of the vast collections of The Library, these materials represent the applied sciences, fine and decorative arts, history, performing arts, and social sciences.
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New York Times - Past Tense This link opens in a new windowDigitized NYT photos available in "Past Tense," an archival storytelling project, using the NYT photo library.
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Prints and Photographs from the Library of Congress This link opens in a new windowSearch featured collections or browse by subject. Copyright status may vary: Please pay close attention to the "Rights Advisory" in each record. If in doubt, refer to the Library's Copyright page.
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Reanimation Library This link opens in a new windowCollection of scanned images from public-domain books. Free to use.
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Wellcome Images This link opens in a new windowOver 100,000 high resolution historical images including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements. Images available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
