Digital Images

LUNA Digital Image Collections

 

How to Save Metadata with Images Exported from LUNA

At this time, images exported from LUNA do not include the accompanying metadata. Metadata provides the information necessary for identification and citation of an image.

This guide gives recommended methods to enable you to save image metadata so you will be able to quickly and easily access this information for your research and studies.

 

Additional Digital Image Collections

AP Images

  • Features current editorial and historic photographs from the Associated Press.
  • Includes sports, financial, entertainment, and U.S. and international news photos.

EBSCO Cinema Image Gallery

  • Includes over 150,000 superior-quality images and over 4,000 poster art and lobby cards.
  • Includes still images of films in production, directors working on-set with the stars, set, costume and production design, in addition to hair and make-up shots and rare behind-the-scenes material.

Visual Arts Data Services (VADS)

  • Contains over 100,000 images that are copyright cleared for educational and research usage.
  • Images are organized into 44 distinct collections that range from textiles to graphic design to photography.

Stock.XCHNG

  • Free stock photography database with access to hundreds of thousands of high-quality, handpicked stock photos and graphics.
  • Activation of a personal membership account is required for full access but there is no cost to join.

Flickr Commons

  • Access to hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives.
  • You're invited to help describe the photographs you discover, either by adding tags or leaving comments.

Wikimedia Commons

  • Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content, including images, sound and video clips.

Google LIFE Photo Archive

  • Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.

Google’s Art Project

  • A unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.
  • Virtually move around the museum’s galleries using Google’s Street View technology.

Library of Congress American Memory Project

  • Free and open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

  • Contains digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress.

The Internet Archive

  • Provides access to a wide variety of texts, audio, moving images, software, and archived web pages.
  • Special projects include the Wayback Machine, Open Library, and the Live Music Archive.

World Digital Library

  • The World Digital Library (WDL) makes it possible to discover, study, and enjoy cultural treasures from around the world on one site.

Europeana

  • Explore millions of digital resources from Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections, including images, texts, sound, and videos.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

  • Includes free and open access to over 700,000 images.
  • Includes illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

California State Library Picture Catalog Collections

  • Search a selection of photographs and historic images from the California State Library's rich collections of photographs, prints, drawings, and sheet music.

California State University (CSU) WorldImages

  • Contains over 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.
  • For convenience the images are organized into over 800 portfolios that appear alphabetically in the Portfolio List.

Manzanita Image Project

  • A curated collection of natural images from the California Academy of Sciences Library.
  • Free for educational, personal, or non-profit use.

National Gallery of Art: NGA Images

  • NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
  • More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.

Smithsonian Institution Collections Search Center

  • Search thousands of images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

Getty Research Institute Digital Collections

  • The Research Library at the Getty Research Institute focuses on the history of art, architecture, and archaeology with relevant materials in the humanities and social sciences.
  • Includes collections from prehistory to contemporary art.

George Eastman House Photography Collections Online

  • A steadily growing digital image sampler and browsing resource for the vast photography holdings of George Eastman House.

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)

  • A personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl.
  • Images have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature.

Digital Imaging Project, Bluffton University

  • Historical images of sculpture and architecture, from pre-historic to post-modern, photographed by Mary Ann Sullivan, Professor Emerita of English and Art History, Bluffton University.
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Copyright and Usage Guidelines

The websites listed on this page are for reference and research purposes only.

Usage guidelines vary widely by resource. Some images are open-access and free to use, while others may require a licensing fee. It is every student’s ethical responsibility to evaluate the usage guidelines when choosing to reproduce any image to avoid copyright violation.

Respect the intellectual property of others and use your best judgment when deciding to reproduce an image, and always credit your source!

 
 

How-To Guide: Image Citation

Students at the Academy of Art University (AAU) follow the Modern Language Association (MLA) format for research papers. This How-To guide (PDF) provides explanations and examples based on the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th ed., which is available at the AAU Library under the call number LB2369.G53 2009.

 
 

How to Find Images

This guide will help you get started finding images using the Academy of Art University's digital image collection, free image resources on the Internet, and physical image resources in the library.
 
 

Additional Image Resources

Looking for even more subject-specific image resources? Be sure to check out our Subject Guides! The subject guides were created by Academy of Art University Librarians to help students find some of the most valuable resources for their major, including image websites.

 
 

Image Research Help

Do you need help finding specific images in LUNA or on the Web, but can't make it to the library to talk to the Visual Resources Librarian?
Submit your question and our Visual Resources Librarian will get back to you, usually within 24 hours, Monday through Friday.
 
 

Image Tutorials

 
 

Faculty Digitization Requests

Faculty can submit requests to the Visual Resources Librarian at any time to have new images digitized locally and uploaded to LUNA to support their specific courses. If you would like more information about the faculty digitization request process, please contact Abby Dansiger, Visual Resources Librarian, at (415) 618-3761 or adansiger@academyart.edu.