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Visual Resources Guide: Image and Video Sources

Find Images and Video

Interested in finding still and moving images? This guide includes:  Metropolitan Transportation Authority - New Artwork in Bensonhurst Subway

  • Examples of high-quality image collections, for general "royalty-free" images, Open Access Images, Subscription Databases, and notable Digital Collections. 

  • Visual Media collections include films, virtual reality, and 3D Image and Point Cloud collections

  • Tips for effective image search, evaluation, and interpretation in subscription databases and on the open web.

  • Image Citation Examples

  • Information on Maps/GIS and Data Visualization

  • Learn more about the foundations of Visual Literacy

  • Virtual Reality Workstation

Metropolitan Transportation Authority. (2012). A detailed photograph of Entitled “Tree of Life,” by Xin Song. The artwork is a combination of a contemporary photo collages and traditional Chinese paper cuts to evoke the historic status of the Bay Parkway Station. (https://flic.kr/p/cJP8SY) Accessed October, 2023. 

Museums and Institutional Collections

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. 

Visual Literacy

Recommended Image Collections by Topic

Digital Art History Directories

These high-quality collections are examples of questions where searchers can "assess sources of visual material and choose relevant artworks and images based on need (ARLIS/NA Information Competencies, p.18)

Art & Art History

Architecture & Interior Design

Image of Sensoji Temple, famous for its giant red lanterns.
An image of the sky line of New York City, on the water with boats on the foreground. 1896.
An image of Greenwood Cemetery, a large building set in fields with trees around it
An image of the Acropolis, an ancient white building against a blue sky.
An image of a Craftsman house with white siding and a red tile roof.
An image. In the foreground are several boats in water. In the background is a Russian Orthodox Church atop a green hill.
An image of the Pachyderm House from the Chicago Zoo. Stone blocks formed into the shape of a house.
An image of a circular building with a question mark and animal sculptures on top. Inside is a man, he is talking to a man, a woman, and a boy outside of the cart.
An image of the Empire State Building from about halfway up the tower and up.
An image of the Empire State Building from farther back in the city

Virtual Reality Workstation

Virtual Reality Workstation User's Manual
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Art and Architecture Library Virtual Reality Workstation. Rm. 101, Education Hall

  •  HTC Vive Pro and software for design, collaboration, and development.
  • STEAM platform hosts programs including  Arkio, Google Earth, Wander, Open Brush, and virtual exhibitions from museums worldwide.
  • Read more in the manual, 
  • Stop by the Library or email askalibrarian@nyit.edu to reserve time to use this workstation.

History of the South Bronx - Images and Maps

Historical Images

Related Data and Visualizations

Related Ethnographies

Bagheri, Nazgol. "Mapping women in Tehran's public spaces: a geo-visualization perspective." Gender, Place & Culture 21, no. 10 (2014): 1285-1301.

Grant, Aimee. "Breasts and the city: an urban ethnography of infant feeding in public spaces within Cardiff, United Kingdom." International breastfeeding journal 16, no. 1 (2021): 37.

Rush, Liz M. "An autoethnography of Fuencarral 43: Women in masculine public space." Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography 2, no. 1 (2012): 15-27.

Sciorra, Joseph, and Martha Cooper. "We're not here just to plant. We have a culture. An Ethnography of the South Bronx" Casita Rincón Criollo"." New York Folklore 20, no. 3 (1994): 19.

Architecture Image Collections

General Stock Images

Subscription Databases

Multi- media & Images

Film and Video for Design

3D Model Collections (OA)

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