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Research as Creative Practice - PHOT 605

This guide was created in fall 2020 for PHOT 605.

Images

Artstor This link opens in a new window
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Images from museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists.
Artstor on JSTOR | JSTOR Images This link opens in a new window
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New Artstor platform. Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.

Articles and Books

Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Includes journals, books, and images covering fine art, decorative art, commercial art, and architecture.
Art Bibliographies Modern (1974-present) This link opens in a new window
Covers all art forms, including fine art, digital art, crafts, design, and photography. Features full abstracts and indexing from art journals published from the late 1960s onward.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art.

Video

Art and Architecture in Video This link opens in a new window
Streaming documentaries and interviews on the theory and practice of a variety of art forms.

Digital Collections from Museums & Libraries

Art Institute of Chicago: The Collection
Filter to "Public Domain" to discover works you can freely use.
Google Arts & Culture
Includes online collections from partner institutions.
The Getty, Los Angeles
Filter by "Open Content Images."
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Filter by "Open Access Artworks."
Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Use the search "Everything" dropdown menu to search specifically for photos or other types of media. Many, but not all, images have no known copyright restrictions. Enlarge images of interest. Under "About this Image" see "Rights Advisory" for more information.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
NGA Images is a collection of open access digital images.
The Louvre
More than 480,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.
British Museum Collection Online
The majority of the 1.9 million object images are available for anyone to use for free under a Creative Commons 4.0 license.
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Users can create their own online galleries.