More Info About Finding Images & Copyright
See the Finding Images Research Guide for finding more information about finding and using images for your research, papers, and presentations.
Also, sign up for the Finding Images Workshop if you would like. Check the Library Workshops page for dates and times!
Finding Images in Image Databases and Books
- You can also check the library catalog for art books with images. Just use the keyword for the type of image you want and an abbreviation like ill or illus for illustration. Example: birds and ill or type in birds and illus. Other words for finding images that you can use in catalog searches are pictoral works, illustration, or "___ in art", for example "flowers in art".
- We do own the Illustration Index, Sculpture Index, and Havlice's World Painting Index (tells you what book has a reproduction or illustration of known works by known artists) and Martha Moss's Photography Books Index, volumes I and II, a subject guide to photo anthologies.
- If you do a keyword search under “catalogue raisonne” you will get all the books of the complete works (catalogue raisonne) of particular artists.
- For visual communication, “mass communication,” “advertising,” and “marketing” are subject headings that can have image books. For example, if you do a keyword search using "advertising and annual” you will see all the titles we have that are advertising awarded images and campaigns (Annual Clio, National Addy, Graphis, Art Director's Annual, Photo Annual, Major marketing campaigns annual). If you look under the subject heading “Advertising Campaign – Periodicals”, you will see others.
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Illustration IndexTells you what book has a reproduction or illustration of known works by known artists.
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Photography Books Index
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Call Number: TR199 .M67ISBN: 9780810812833Publication Date: 1980-04-01Anthologies of photographs are indexed by photographer, subject, and named individuals in portraits. -
Photography Books Index II
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Call Number: TR199 .M67 1985, 6th floorISBN: 9780810817739Publication Date: 1995-05-23No descriptive material is available for this title. -
World Painting Index
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Call Number: ND45 .H38 (v.1 & v.2)ISBN: 9780810810167Publication Date: 1991-01-01World painting index
Image Databases
This is a list of some image databases related mostly to art and design, but if you need more or other types of images, for example medical, historical, multi-cultural, there are many more on the Image Databases page.
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Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
Coverage of world fashion from 1500 BCE to present. Contains reference works, ebooks, and images.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Grove encyclopedia of classical art and architecture This link opens in a new window
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Pop Culture Universe This link opens in a new window
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Victorian Popular Culture This link opens in a new window