LibGuides: ARS230-03 Basic Digital Photo (A. Frank) MV: Find Images (Databases)

ArtStor

ARTstor Digital Archive Collection This link opens in a new window
Digital images and information about works of visual art, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design from many times and cultures. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world.

Search for Images on the Web

You can limit a Google search to just .org websites by entering the above limiter before the name of your artist. This may or may not be useful to you - in can limit to museums and some artist's websites. Keep in mind though that some artist's websites are .com, .net, or other kinds of sites.

When looking for images to use in your presentation be sure to pull from:

The artist's own website
Museum or Gallery sites

Do not pull images from blogs or other websites - you must be able to verify that the image you are using does in fact belong to the artist and that it appears as the artist intended, which is something you cannot do with blogs or other personal websites.

MOMA Photography Collection

MoMA Collection - Photographs
Link to items classed as photographs, with images, in the MoMA online database.

Photography Images

Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago
Spanning the history of the medium from its beginning in 1839 to the present, the Art Institute's photography collection contains works of many of the medium's celebrated practitioners
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Collection of historical and contemporary photography - browseable by artist, searchable by keyword.
National Archives - Digital Photography Collections
A curated list of links to digital photography collections spanning the 19th-21st centuries.

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