TinEye - reverse image search

This has been around for awhile but is interesting, nonetheless. TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions.

TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching.

Guggenheim Foundation and ARTstor release images

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and ARTstor have released more than 750 images of major artworks from the Guggenheim’s permanent collection, available in the ARTstor Digital Library. Forthcoming additions will include another 10,000 images of artworks, exhibition installation views, and architectural photographs of the various Guggenheim museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice, and Berlin.

WorldImages

The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It has just been selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials. It contains approximately 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.




The web images are free for educational use. Hundreds of style periods and cultures are represented.

New York Department of Records releases 870K images

Two weeks ago the New York Department of Records treated the world to over 870K images in their Municipal Archive Online Gallery. Most of the unique photographs, maps, motion picture and audio recordings in the collection were made accessible for the first time, and what a treat!

The gallery includes complete holdings or samples from 30 different historic collections which can be searched individually or all together in the LUNA software.

Walters Art Museum Uploads Images to Wikimedia

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has donated more than 19,000 freely-licensed images of artworks to Wikimedia Commons. The Walters’ collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art, and Old Master and 19th-century paintings.  Browse the various categories here.

National Gallery of Art releases open-access images

The National Gallery of Art has implemented an open access policy for digital images of works of art that the Gallery believes to be in the public domain. Images of these works are now available free of charge for any use, commercial or non-commercial. Users do not need to contact the Gallery for authorization to use these images; simply create a user account and begin downloading images today!

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum located in Washington DC.  Their digital collections house more than 20,000 high-resolution images including paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings, photographs, decorative arts, and architecture ranging from the Middle Ages to the present.

The collections provide high resolution TIFF images or "quick downloads" of JPEG files, suitable for presentations.

Explore and enjoy!

Online Public Art Archive

The Public Art Archive, a project of the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF),  is a searchable database of public art in the United States. The Archive provides images and descriptions of public artworks, including local Colorado works.  Click here for a survey of public artworks in Denver!

The Archive is integrated with Google Maps, a feature that allows for quick navigation to your favorite public artworks.  Use it on your next walking tour!