Library Research Guides: ARTH A400 Senior Seminar: Images

Finding Images

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ARTstor
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PLEASE NOTE: the Artstor platform is being retired and will no longer be available as of August 1, 2024. Content has already migrated to Artstor on JSTOR. Existing individual Artstor user accounts will carry over to the new JSTOR platform. A digital image library of over 2.5 million digital images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. To save or download images, users must register for an individual account.
Users who create an account also gain access to a set of tools for sharing images, curating groups of images, downloading them directly into PowerPoint presentations, and comparing and contrasting images.
A&AePortal
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The A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, photography, and design.
Also provides access to images that accompany scholarly texts.
Associated Press Images Collection (EBSCO)
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More than 3.5 million historical and contemporary news photographs with thousands more added daily.
Berg Fashion Library
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Collection of scholarly, multidisciplinary information on all aspects of dress and fashion worldwide, from prehistory to present day.
Content includes: articles from the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and other reference works, a museum directory, 100+ academic e-books, museum exhibitions, 14,000+ color images from partner institutions, and research and learning tools.
Rhizome
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Online platform for the global new media art community supporting the creation, presentation and discussion of contemporary art that uses new technologies.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
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This database provides full-text access to a growing collection of hard-to-find comics produced in North America from the 1960's to the present.
Includes more than 100,000 pages of materials, with 75,000 pages of primary materials (the comics themselves), and more than 25,000 pages of materials about comics--interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism--from The Comics Journal and other secondary sources.

Volume I covers major works from North America and Europe, beginning with the first underground comix from the 1950s and continuing through to modern sequential artists. It incorporates 75,000 pages of material from artists such as Basil Wolverton and Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Harvey Pekar, Spain Rodriguez, and Vaughn Bode, and modern masters including Peter Bagge, Kim Deitch, Dave Sim, Dan Clowes, and Los Bros.

Volume II adds coverage of the pre-Comics Code era horror, crime, romance, and war comics that fueled the backlash leading to one of the largest censorship campaigns in US history. Selections include works by visionaries such as Alex Toth, Boody Rogers, Fletcher Hanks, Steve Ditko, Joe Kubert, Bill Everett, Joe Simon, and Jack Kirby, along with essential series such as Crime Does Not Pay and Mister Mystery, and many others both famous and infamous.
WindowsWear
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WindowsWear is a visual merchandising database providing access to retail data including store windows, store interiors, packaging, e-commerce. PLEASE NOTE: First time users must create an individual login using your IU email account for access.

Select "Sign Up - It's Free!"
Next, choose "Academic" and click on "Indiana University" from the dropdown.
Click "Create Profile."
Register using your IU email account.
Includes brands such as Fendi, Harrods, Raplph Lauren, Tory Burch, Marc Jacobs, Michael Kors, as well as other brands, specialists, designers, architects, and academic institutions.
Material Connexion
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A unique and comprehensive resource comprised of more than 10,000 materials innovations across 7,000+ global manufacturers. Users can register for individual accounts with their IU email in order to save their work, and view detailed product information.
Includes high-quality photographs, and company/vendor contact information. Users can search materials by keyword, material type, manufacturer name, and manufacturer location. The eight material processes include: polymers; cement-based materials; glass; metals; ceramics; natural materials; carbon-based materials; processes.

Art Institute of Chicago Architecture and Design
A collection of 250,000 objects grounded in works by Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Le Corbusier.
CSU WorldImages
Provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains nearly 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.
Flickr Commons
Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
Luna Commons Public Collections
Luna Commons is a database of sixteen free digital image collections. There are over 100,000 images all available for download in good resolution. Featured collections include: Pratt Institute Fashion Plate Collection, The Farber Gravestones Collection, Maps of Africa, Cornell Political Americana Collection, and the The Estate Collection of Art by HIV+ artists.
NYPL Digital Collections
The New York Public Library's Digital Collections contain over 800,000 digitized items featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
Shared Shelf Commons
A free, open-access library of images. Search and browse collections with tools to zoom, print, export, and share images.

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