LibGuides: FYSB 1422: Art, AIDS, Activism: Images

Finding Images

ARTstor
Searchable database of digital images and associated catalog data, with new image collections added several times a year. ARTstor covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download and organize images.

Creative Commons Search
The newly designed Creative Commons’ “CC Search” project is a still developing open online search and re-use tool that allows high-quality content from the commons to surface in a more seamless and accessible way. You can find collections from a variety of openGLAM institutions (open content from galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sources in one place.
Digital Public Library of America
A portal to the digitized collections of various institutions across the nation, including millions of photographs, documents, books, audio materials, and moving images.
Flickr
Flickr is a photo management and sharing site, which offers users the ability to search by licensing types. In advanced search by licensing information.
Google Advanced Image Search
Using Google Image Search's "Tools" menu, you can search images based on their usage rights.
Library of Congress, Digital Collections
The Library of Congress Digital Collections database offers a wide variety of public domain media materials created on behalf of, or collected by, the federal government. Items include historic maps, photographs, musical scores, oral histories, full text documents, and much more.
Museum of Modern Art
The catalog contains over 76,000 works of modern and contemporary art from the MoMA's collection of nearly 200,000 works. This database includes exhibition history, links to the Getty ULAN, and details on individual works of art.
Museum of the City of New York
This database contains over 185,000 images (including photographs, maps, archival materials and multimedia) related to the history of New York City.
New York City Municipal Archives
The Municipal Archive's gallery is trove of photographs take in the service of city buisness. There are a number of relevant collections to choose from. Content warning: graphic crime scene photos are present in this collection.
New York Public Library Digital Collections
This site is a living database of the New York Public Library's digital collections with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. It includes the digital collections for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. You can search public domain works by clicking on public domain below the search box.
Wikimedia Commons
I large repository of images that are free to use.

Art Databases for AIDS Related Work

New York Public Library: Digital Collections - AIDS
This is a pre-selected list of AIDS related material in the NYPL's digital collections database. You can search all of NYPL's collections in this same space.
Visual AIDS: Artists+ Registry
The Artist+ Registry is the largest database of works by artists with HIV/AIDS. It offers a unique resource to inspire and educate the public. Visual AIDS assists artists with HIV/AIDS, while preserving a visual record of their work and helping them reach new audiences. The Artist+ Registry is open to all HIV+ artists.