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New: Streaming Videos:
Ontario College of Art and Design Lecture Series
Finding Images On the Web:
This is a great "how to" with links and discussion of copyright.
New Image Database: VADS
The image resources are free and copyright cleared for use in UK Higher and Further Education, providing a valuable resource to students and academics.
VADS is continuously adding to its catalogue and just this year has added a collection of photographs from the East End archival project which includes 500 images of the Spitalfields area from the 1970s to the 1990s - a period of rapid social and physical change; furniture from the Frederick Parker Chair Collection which demonstrate 350 years of British chair design and manufacture; as well as the archive of post-war British sculptor Peter King.
Other memorable collections available online through the site are 'Spanish Civil War Posters', 'Concise Art', and 'Posters of Conflict' all from the Imperial War Museum, and the Design Council Archives and Slide Collection from University of Brighton and Manchester Metropolitan University respectively.
In addition to providing and building on its online visual arts resource, VADS also offers expert guidance and help for digital projects in arts education. The expert VADS team also offers web development and hosting services for visual arts organisations and projects.
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is:
- A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data;
- The tools to actively use those images; and
- A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.
Grove Art Online Dictionary and Image database
Searching is facilitated by searching by words and/or terms, by artist biographies, by image(s) and/or by full-text. The database also makes it possible to search for external images related to the Dictionary. More than 30,000 external image links are currently associated with articles which point to images of art works held in public museum collections throughout the world.
Includes photograph archives, news photos, art, and history images.
Images Resources: Colby Collection Web site
This is a wonderful site, inclusive. Worth exploring.
New York Public Library Photographic Collection
The Photography Collection contains nearly 300,000 original photographic prints, from the medium's 150+ year history, representing an international range of photographers and comprising a thorough survey of subjects and processes.
During their tenure as the leading fine arts photography firm in New York from 1906 to 1975, Peter A. Juley & Son assembled a collection of 4,700 photographic portraits of artists. These images capture some of the most well-known artists of the twentieth century, including Alexander Calder, Edward Hopper, Frida Kahlo, Franz Kline, Jacob Lawrence, Barnett Newman, Diego Rivera and Grant Wood. Many of the portraits depict their subjects at work in their studios or at home with their families and offer interesting glimpses into the artistic and social climate of the period. The Juleys also made hundreds of group photographs recording the histories of the National Academy of Design and Art Students League and documenting summer art colonies at Provincetown, Woodstock, Old Lyme and Ogunquit.
View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty
renowned collections. Explore these collections using the Insight® Browser
with no download required, or the Insight® Java Client with advanced
functionality, requiring one time download. View the collections individually
with the Insight Browser or Java Client. With the Insight Java Client, combine
several collections from one category, or combine any collection from
the View All tab.
This provides images, which can be enlarged and "explored" using mouse and cursor, of over 1200 items, including illustrated and illuminated manuscripts. Extensive catalogue details and documentation are provided for each piece. They are supplied by museums in Algeria, Egypt, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and UK. Among them is at least one library (Uppsala University). Some of the items have been little known or studied previously.
This is a great site for images of architecture worldwide.
Why Me? Artists Use of Self Image
It is an alphabetically presented research database containing the names of over 340 artists worldwide who feature their own physical presence within the artworks they present.
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