ALL GD classes: image resources

Visual Resources Center

Humanities 328

Contact: Gwen Davidson, Coordinator

678-839-5298, vrlib@westga.edu

http://www.westga.edu/~artdept/pages/Visual%20Resource%20Library/vrl.html

Services for Art Students:

• Reference assistance locating images
• Scanning for course assignments and presentations
• DVD collection for viewing within the Center
• Photoshop tutoring for image editing

Resources for Finding High Resolution Images

CreativeCommons Search:  http://search.creativecommons.org
Searches images available for commercial or educational use on the following sites; select images are large in size

·       Flickr (select “view all sizes”)

·       Fotopedia (select “download images”)

·       Wikimedia Commons

Academic Databases

Note: GALILEO databases are available through Ingram Library (Ingram Library > GALILEO & Databases > Arts and Humanities > Art); must use the GALILEO password when accessing off campus

CAMEO: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zocm
Available through GALILEO; collection of high quality art images from major museums;
pros: thorough catalog records with reliable information; cons: images scaled to 300 dpi or higher are not always large in dimensions

ARTstor: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=art3-wgc1
Available through GALILEO; largest collection of art images, at over 1 million; pros: excellent search engine that allows advanced searching by time period, medium, and culture, provides high quality images from museums; cons: not all images are high quality (some are scanned from old slides), images are small when scaled to 300 dpi

American Memory Photo Search: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?format=Photograph

Library of Congress site; searches historical images primarily from across the Library of Congress collections; pros: a breadth of public domain photographs beginning in the nineteenth century, select images are available to download as high resolution TIFs, thorough catalog records with reliable information; cons: site is sometimes difficult to navigate to find high resolution images, some images are either not available at a high resolution or not from high quality photographs

Museum Websites:

Victoria & Albert Museum: http://www.vam.ac.uk

Very high resolution images available for educational use; must sign up for service (20 images per order)

British Museum: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx

Very high resolution images available for educational use; must sign up for service (100 images per month)

Yale Center for British Art: http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/search

Offers high resolution TIFs from the collection for immediate free download

The Walters Art Museum:  http://art.thewalters.org

Stock Photography Sites:

Stock Free Images:  http://www.stockfreeimages.com

StockVault:  http://www.stockvault.net

Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon:  http://capl.washjeff.edu
Images for language teachers; pros: contains a breadth of everyday objects across cultures; cons: images are not always good quality

Books

Visual Resources Center Collection
Limited selection of older art books

Ingram Library Collection: https://gil.westga.edu

GIL Express Service: https://giluc.usg.edu/  

Borrow books from libraries in the Georgia State System; search the GIL Universal Catalog from Ingram Library’s website; once you find a book you want, select GIL Express Request from the top menu and sign in with your library account information

Interlibrary Loan: http://libguides.westga.edu/interlibraryloan
lending service for books that are not available through Ingram Library or GIL Express; borrow books from libraries around the country