Research Guides
Source Images and Photo Sharing
- flickr Use advanced search to find flickr photos released under the creative commons license
- Google Images
- Creative Commons Provides free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially...
- flickr apps
User-created flickr apps = more fun with flickr! - retrievr An experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.
- Wikimedia Commons A database of 3,091,240 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
- 25 Free Stock Photo Sites
Art image databases
- ARTstor
Images of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, and decorative arts from around the world. 95% of ARTstor images are 1024 pixels on the long side. - CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) Currently contains images of over 88,000 works of art in all media and all eras
- Art Institute of Chicago Collection Small but growing portion of the Art Institute's permanent collection. Includes images and basic information about works of art representing all areas of the collection.
- Saskia Art Images Collection
30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections. 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections: the Prado, the Kunsthisto - CARLI Digital Collections
Digital art images encompassing Western and Eastern civilizations. - MDID (MacLean Visual Resources Center)
Images for lectures at the School of the Art Institute. See MacLean Visual Resources Center/Slide Library for instructions and login. - Oxford Art: Search Art Image Links Offers encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of fine and applied arts, architecture, and artists and architects biographies.
Images and Copyright
- Artists Rights Society: Copyright Basics
- Copyright and Art Issues
- Creative Commons a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright
- Flickr: Creative Commons
- Finding Images on the Web Created by Boston University Libraries
- Copyright.gov
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