Image Research

A collaboration between the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT Libraries.

Powered by The Art Genome Project Artsy is a growing collection of over 90,000 artworks by over 18,000 artists from leading art fairs, galleries, museums, and art institutions.

Image sets include: fashion & costume; portraits; illustrated letters & typography; maps; and highlights form the 'Mechanical Curator.'

Add "source:life" to any Google image search and search only the LIFE photo archive. For example: computer source:life

Over 53,000 low-resolution images are available free of charge to non-commercial users through a standard ‘Creative Commons’ licence and over 87,000 high-resolution images are available free of charge for academic use through the Gallery’s own licences.

Palmyrena: City, Hinterland and Caravan Trade between Orient and Occident is the result of a four year (2009-2012) joint Syrian-Norwegian research project on the relationship between the ancient city of Palmyra and its hinterland.

RAAI is the result of a collaboration between James J. Ross and Susan Vogel. The archive aspires to include all the figurative African objects in books, periodicals, catalogs, newspapers, and other publications appearing in 1920 and earlier—the oldest dates to 1591. Does not include postcards or pamphlets of limited distribution. Based on the James J. Ross library, and augmented by publications from the libraries of Yale University and a few other institutions.

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Includes information about more than 500 native North American visual artists from across the spectrum of traditional and contemporary practice.

Thousands of years of visual culture, including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements.