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ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
ARTstor has developed a digital library of images (including art, architecture
and archeology) and descriptive data. ARTstor also provides software tools to
enable active use of the images. The tools support a wide range of uses including
analyzing images, saving groups of images online, and creating and delivering
presentations both online and offline. This is a resource available only for
non-commercial, educational uses.
The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive provides photographs, audio sound bites,
graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. It contains over one million
photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago, tens of
thousands of graphics, audio files dating from the 1920's, and news stories
dating from 1997.
TO ACCESS, YOU MUST SIGN UP FOR AN ACCOUNT
BEFORE SIGNING UP FOR AN ACCOUNT, FIRST CONTACT Laura Grutzeck, Visual Resources, TO GET A SUBSCRIPTION CODE
- e-mail her at: lgrutzeck@uarts.edu and put Corbis in the subject line
- image database created specifically for educational use
- organized into 3 collections:
- DESIGN Collection with over 85,000 images
- FINE ARTS Collection with approximately 140,000 images of art, sculpture, illustration and architecture
- HISTORICAL Collection with approximately 140,000 images
- available in both standard and high-resolution digital images for Web and print applications
- search and download images for class projects, presentations and handouts: Corbis images are for educational purposes only
- use in the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer, or in PowerPoint.
- imagery from the Bettmann Archives, United Press International and the Hulton Deusch Collection
For description, see OXFORD ART ONLINE
- online catalog provides access to records from the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
- many of the records include digital images, about one million in all
- information provided on downloading or obtaining copies from the Library's Photoduplication Service
- excellent resource for the researcher
- Note: not all images in the public domain
- database of over 1400 new raw materials, processes and products
- drawn from a large spectrum of industries
- results include thumbnail images
- can search by product name, application, country, etc.
SEARCH TIPS
Searching is limited to one field at a time; for e.g., you cannot search upholstery in the United States. However, you can pull up all upholstery results and limit by country.
TO ACCESS, YOU MUST SIGN UP FOR AN ACCOUNT BY CONTACTING Laura Grutzeck, Visual Resources Librarian
- e-mail her at: lgrutzeck@uarts.edu and put MDID in the subject line
- digital image database created by the Visual Resources Library at the University of the Arts
- search and download high resolution images for class projects, presentations and handouts
- images are for educational purposes only
- use in MDID's Imageviewer as well as the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer, or in PowerPoint
- similar to the slide collection: built largely on faculty requests
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images
digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The
New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps,
vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera and more.
- union catalog of digital resources created by the University of Michigan
- provides access to records and files of digital images, audio and video from 900 contributing institutions
- users can search by TITLE, CREATOR or SUBJECT
- Most of the images are freely available for educational use
- Note: check the Rights information for each record for details on permitted usage
- the most comprehensive online reference resource for visual arts
- continually updated worldwide coverage from prehistory to the present day
- includes: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, photography
- signed articles with bibliographies
- includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
- image search includes 5,000 images from MOMA, the Met, AICT, and The Artists Rights Society; over 40,000 images from selected gallery and museum websites link to subject entries
SEARCH TIPS
If you are looking for images, note that the IMAGE SEARCH on the first screen includes only selected images; for more images, locate the text information on your topic, and click on the IMAGES tab on this screen to get related images
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European
painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850),
currently containing over 14,500 reproductions.
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