Selected Image Databases
- Creative Commons SearchPre-limits searches to major public databases with Creative Commons images and other content.
- FilmGrabA collection of stills and screenshots from many different motion pictures.
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AP Newsroom (formerly AP Images) contains millions of photographs dating from 1826 to present day from the Associated Press. Includes thousands of graphics, audio files dating from the 1920s, and news stories and headlines from 1997 to the present. - ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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High-resolution Images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Includes a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes. Images are contributed by museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, artists, and estates, from a variety of sources including the Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts. UC campuses contribute additional images including: the Archivision Library, Saskia Art & Architecture images, the Visual Resources Collections from UCB, UCSB, UCI, UCLA, UCR, and the UCSC Library Instructional Collection.
- Getty Images embeddable imagesMore than 50 million embeddable images! You can embed a Getty Images photo on a website, social media site or blog for free and without having to buy a license, as long as the photo is not used for commercial purposes (meaning in an advertisement or in any way intended to sell a product, raise money, or promote or endorse something).
- Getty Museum Open Content ProgramThe Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.
- Metropolitan Museum’s Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC)High-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s collection.
- Motion Picture Stills Online (UCLA Digital Collections)From Library Special Collections and the Digital Library Program. See growing collection of 10,000+ images now available. Stills are from more historical films.
- New York Public Library Digital CollectionsMore than 210,000 of the of the items in the NYPL Digital Collections are now in the public domain
More Image Sources
- UCLA Library Image Sources GuideIncludes extensive web and subscription sources for online image sources, information on images in print sources, and more.
Image Guidelines for Fair Use
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual ArtsPublished by the College Art Association, and endorsed by:
-American Library Association
-Art Libraries Society of North America
-Association of Art Museum Curators
-Association of College and Research Libraries
-Association of Research Libraries
-Society of Architectural Historians
-Visual Resources Association
Article Databases with Images
- Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
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Articles and reviews from a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, circus, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television, and more. Former database title: International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA) Full Text. - Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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EIMA is an historical archive of major trade and consumer magazines in film, television, music, radio, and theater, from their inception to 2000. Includes weekly Variety, Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, Back Stage, Billboard, Broadcasting, Picturegoer, Screen International, Spin, and more. UCLA has access to parts I, II and III of this database. - People Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Online collection of the prominent, popular entertainment magazine dating from its very first issue in March 1974 through December 2000, in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. - Time Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Time Magazine Archive presents an extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. - Vanity Fair Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Presents the popular magazine in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format, dating from its very first run from September 1913-1936, and relaunch from March 1983-October 2015. Chronicles popular culture, fashion, celebrity portraiture, politics, and more. - Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day. - Women's Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
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Contains historical backfiles of several leading consumer magazines: Better Homes and Gardens, Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, Parents, Redbook, Seventeen, Town and Country, Woman's Day, and Women's International Network News. UCLA has access to collections 1 and 2 of this database.