Image Searching: Special Topic Image Collection Websites
Special Topic Image Collection Websites
- American Memory: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog( Library of Congress )
Contains images from US history and culture. - LIFE photo archive hosted by GoogleSearches the incredible millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive from the 1750s to the present, covering a wide range of topics and images from contemporary life. Most were never published and are now available through the joint work of LIFE Magazine and Google.
- Louvre: ATLAS: Database of works exhibitedContains over 30,000 images including European paintings, sculpture, and objets d'Art, as well as Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Islamic, Asian, and Roman antiquities.
- George Eastman House Online Photography CollectionIncludes more than 400,000 photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. Embraces landmark processes, objects of great rarity, and monuments of art history that trace the evolution of photography as a means of scientific and historical documentation, and as a potent and accessible means of personal expression. Represents more than 14,000 photographers, including virtually all the major figures in the history of photography.
- Metropolitan Museum of ArtEnables searching of the Met's online collection, which includes the entire Department of European Paintings, entire Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, the Provenance Research Project, and highlights from each of the Museum's other curatorial departments, as well as highlights from the Museum's libraries and from the database of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center.
- National Gallery of ArtProvides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of NYPL, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more." Searchable by collection, such as art and literature, cities and buildings, industry and technology, and nature and science.
- Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries This link opens in a new windowIncludes primarily collections of still images, but anticipates future inclusion of a variety of digital media formats, including audio, video, kinetic images, animation, virtual reality, interactive sequences and multi-media constructs. More InfoPUBLIC
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