LibGuides: Visual Resources Guide: Image and Video Sources

Introduction

Image and Video Sources

General Stock Image Collections

Subscription Databases

Digital Collections

Image Websites

Educational Video Collections

Virtual Reality

3D Images

Vector Graphics

Large Image Collections

Associated Press
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Is a nonprofit cooperative American news agency that distributes material through all popular media.
Creative Commons Image Search
Google Arts & Culture
World Images by UCLA
Flickr- Explore / Creative Commons
Gallery of Creative Commons licensed photos recently uploaded to Flickr.

Museums and Institutional Collections

Getty Research Portal
Access digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art

PRIMARY SOURCES: Museums support digitial access to exhibitions, digital collection images, primary sources of museum records, and ephemera. These are some exceptional examples. Contact a Librarian to further your search.

Indianapolis Museum of Art Archives
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Publications
Smithsonian Archives Art Museum - leading center for the study of American Art. Located in Washington, D.C. with extensive collections online.
Vircona - Native American Artists and Architects
Texan Artists and Artisans Archive

African Vernacular Architecture
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ARLIS Multimedia and Technology Reivew
World Images by UCLA
Google Arts & Culture
The British Library - Picturing Places
Themes cover city planning and topography. Good for historic maps.
Brno Architecture Trails, Brno, Czechoslovakia
by the City of Brno and the House of Arts of Brno, Czechoslovakia
Cooper Hewitt Design Museum
Drawings of the Florentine Painters
Historical Master Drawings.
Europeana
Artworks, Artefacts, Books, Videos and sounds from across Europe.
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings (Story Map)
Getty Research Portal
Access digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature.
Pilsen Architecture Manual (PAM)
CAUSEWAY
Collaborative Architecture, Urbanism, and Sustainability Web Archive
Fratelli Alinari
RIBApix

International resources

Netherlands
Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online
International Architecture Database
The largest online database about worldwide architects and buildings from past to present. Originally it emerged from records of interesting building projects from architecture students.