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1StopStock - A meta engine for stock photo collections.
3D Human Anatomy Resource - A unique dynamic human anatomy resource that provides you with stunning 3D visuals, animations and concise text for use in health care education, for patient education, for your students or for your own presentations.
Aerial Archives - A large collection of stock aerial photography, provides aerial photography and image research services to a broad range of clients. Specialties include oblique aerial photography for advertising, public relations and corporate communications, infrared aerial photography, aerial photographs of cities, commercial real estate, geographic features and the environment and aerial maps and historic aerial images.
AMICA Library - A growing online collection of high-quality, digital documentation of works of art from around the world. Cultures and time periods represented range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) - A project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl, AICT disseminates images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis.
Art of the State - Punk websites portal with icons of filth, subhumans, anarchopunk, Banksy, punk bands, graffiti.
Art of War - The UK's National Archives presents illustraions, propaganda, and vallour and gallantry galleries of art related to wartime.
Awesome Art -
A fine art image archive, specializing in copyright-free and royalty-free high resolution, very high resolution images on CD and DVD, and image downloads.
BBC Motion Gallery - Access to thousands of shots from the archives of the BBC and CBS News.
Big Book Search - Search book covers, CD covers, DVD covers, and more. High resolution cover images.
Big Picture, The - From the Boston Globe, news stories in photographs.
beinArt Surreal Art Collective - Australian Surreal Art Collective provides surreal, psychedelic, esoteric, outsider, fantasy, lowbrow, erotic and visionary artists.
Bridgeman Art Library: Art, Culture, History Images - Source of fine art images for reproduction with offices in London, Paris and New York. Founded in 1972, the Bridgeman Art Library works with museums, art galleries and artists to make the best art available for reproduction. The result is an outstanding archive of images drawn from collections throughout the world, all of which are available for licensing.
Critical Mass - High resolution photos of the world's most beautiful women.
CTSIMAGES - Specializes in jazz and blues photography licensing, research and appraisals representing many renowned collections. Photography research and placement for major record companies' reissue programs such as Verve Records, BMG, Sony, Mosaic Records as well as documentary films and books relating to historic jazz and blues music. The collections represent vintage 1920's through 1970's. With the exception to jazz which ranges from the 20's to present.
DigitalGlobe - Imagery and information company: satellite imagery, geospatial data, remotedly sensed images, GIS, space imagery.
EarthSat - A world leader in the utilization of remote sensing data from aircraft and satellites and is the largest commercial provider of enhanced satellite imagery.
GeoEye - Makes Earth information resources widely available using advanced image collection and processing technologies, state-of-the-art archiving, and digital distribution methods over the Web. Space Imaging launched its IKONOS satellite, the world's first high-resolution, commercial Earth imaging satellite, in September 1999. Space Imaging also owns or has marketing rights to a constellation of remote sensing satellites already on orbit. These include the U.S. Landsat satellites, the Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellites, Canada's RADARSAT, and the European Space Agency's Radar Satellite.
Getty Images - Award-winning news, sport and entertainment content, plus rare and contemporary archival imagery.
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HarpWeek (Harper's Weekly) - The 56 years of Harper's Weekly provide a continuous record of what happened on a weekly basis from 1857 through 1912. The first segment includes the Civil War Era: 1857-1865. The next two cover Reconstruction: 1866-1871 and 1872-1877. The last six encompass the Gilded Age: 1878-1912. Free features, including amazing photos and illustrations, include:
History of Art - A world history of art: Paleolithic, Age, Civilizations, Prehistoric, Art, Ancient, East, Aegean, Hellenic, Italic, Greek, Europe, Asia, Africa, Roman, Empire, Antiquity, Romanesque, Christians, Barbarian, Artistic, Cultures, Persian, Classical, Gothic,Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Orientalism, Styles, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Modern, Expressionism, Fauvism, Avant-garde, Movements, Architecture, Contemporary, Postmodernism.
History of Photography - History of photography, including masters of photography and various collections of fine art photographers' works.
Human-Anatomy.net - Human anatomy picutres and medical software. The Human Anatomy software is unsurpassed in conveying complex anatomical & pathological information. All structures and musculature are modeled and labeled including nerves, deep and superficial muscles, blood supply, skeletal structures and unique features for each individual body part.
Indico Commons -
The Commons was launched on January 16, 2008, by Flickr with the release of nearly 3,000 photographs from two popular Library of Congress collections. The stated aims of the Commons project are to increase the public’s access to publicly held photography collections in civic institutions around the world and to provide a way for the public to contribute historical data pertaining to the collections. More than a dozen museums, public libraries, and other cultural heritage institutions from around the world have joined The Commons, releasing over 12,000 images to be perused, tagged, and researched by the public.
imageNETion - A huge collection of virtual art galleries, featuring illustrations and paintings of pin-ups art, fantasy art, sci-fi art, digital art, comics art, fantastic art, classical art, surreal art, and vintage art, from over 800 artists.
Instagram - Share photos.
Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.
Internet Picture Dictionary - Online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages.
Great Images in NASA (GRiN) - Over 1000 NASA images of historical interest. Images available in low, high, and very high resolutions - suitable for publishers and the media.
KSC Shuttle Photo and Video Archive - Preflight, launch, and landing photos and videos from shuttle missions since STS-67. Low and high resolution images available.
NASA Human Space Flight Web, Multimedia Gallery - Press release photos from shuttle missions since STS-82, press release photos from the space station, and video, audio, and animation files from the shuttle and space station programs. Also contains some pre-shuttle multimedia. All new press release photos and other multimedia are published here. Low and high resolution imagery.
NASA Image eXchange (NIX) - A search tool which can search imagery databases throughout NASA, tying together over 442,000 images.
Magnum Photos - A photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. With powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events, issues and personalities.
E-Anatomy - Human anatomy, medical imaging and illustrations.
Indexed Visuals - Medical Illustration database of portfolios and stock images. 8,000+ image database includes all types of subjects and features the largest directory of medical, science, and nature illustrators and illustration on the web.
Medical Images & Illustrations Gateway - Links to other pages and sites on the Internet offering biomedically related multimedia material, mostly images (photos, illustrations, etc.).
Normal Anatomy - Images from the Visible Human Project, arranged in radiographic view, as though you were looking up from the patient's feet toward the head. Thus, the right side of the image is the patient's left side.
Nucleus Medical Media - Medical video, animation and illustration: A leading author, publisher and licensor of medical animations and medical illustrations on the Internet.
Public Health Image Library - An extensive collection of still images, image sets, and multimedia files related to public health.
Visible Human Project (VHP) - The VHP is the creation of complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the normal male and female human bodies. Acquisition of transverse CT, MR and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers has been completed. The male was sectioned at one millimeter intervals, the female at one-third of a millimeter intervals.
Whole Brain Atlas - An information resource for brain imaging which integrates clinical information with multimodality imaging data. Provides medical professionals and pre-med/med students with accurate MRI, tomographic, and nuclear medicine images which emphasize the pathoanatomy of several leading CNS (central nervous system) diseases and serve as a road-map into the human brain.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - MoMA's online collection represents over 1900 artists and 7000 objects from the Museum's departments of Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Photography, Prints and Illustrated Books, Film, and Media.
MuseumSyndicate - Hundreds of images of paintings that never before available online. For example, this website has the largest online collection of Grant Wood and Edward Hopper art available on the entire Internet. Much of the information on items that are owned by specific museums comes from the museums themselves.
National Geographic Images - Showcasing the work of hundreds of photographers, artists, and illustrators.
New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital Gallery - Provides access to over 800,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Normal Anatomy - Images from the Visible Human Project, arranged in radiographic view, as though you were looking up from the patient's feet toward the head. Thus, the right side of the image is the patient's left side.
Online Archive of California - Provides access to tens of thousands of photographs, paintings, graphical materials and other types of images of California.
Our War - A political photoblog from Chile, created to show to the universe stories about repression, resistance and struggle of people in this little part of the world and the paths they take to find social justice.
Photo Metadata Software/Notes - Tips for managing online photo collections - making them more accessible, searchable, navigable. Links to sample galleries, software, metadata, documentqation and the like.
Red Clydeside: Political Cartoons - The Labour press in Britain enthusiastically seized the potential which the political cartoon gave them to get across their message to their supporters and potential supporters. Radical and left-wing cartoonists used their skills to highlight the perceived injustices of the established political order and to put forward socialist, Marxist or anarchist solutions to the major political problems of the period.
Royal Society Picture Library - Browse and search rare, intriguing, beautiful and often surprising pictures selected from the collections of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest scientific academy.
Sacred Destinations - A virtual encyclopedia of sacred sites and religious places with over 14,000 photos.
Society for the Art of the Imagination - A work of imagination originates when artists express their awareness of some significant relationship with larger forces or realities using realism in an effort to reveal their secrets. It may be called by many names - Fantastic Realism, Surrealism, Magic Realism, Visionary Art, Inspirational Art - but the Society has chosen 'Art of Imagination' because it is the least restrictive and yet most unifying title. Honorary members are Ernst Fuchs, H R Giger, Bob Venosa, Martina Hoffmann, Alex Grey, Laurie Lipton, Henry Boxer, De Es, and Ingo.
TinEye - A reverse image search engine. You give 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.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) - A searchable on-line archive of digital resources for use by the visual arts community, especially higher education, for teaching, learning and research. Numerous arts, design, and fashion collections are already online.
WebShots - Members store their own photographs online and these become available for others to search, view, and, in some cases, purchase.
William P. Gottlieb Photographs From the Golden Age of Jazz - Maintained by the Library of Congress. Comprised of over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. Also see Jazz Photos, the online gallery and store featuring William Gottlieb's classic jazz photography from the 1930s and 40s.
World Heritage List - Includes 851 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. Search by country.
World Wide Arts Resources - Discover over 100,000 works of contemporary art. Search by medium, subject matter, price and theme. Research over 200,000 works by over 22,000 masters in the indepth art history section.
About KWSnet
KWSnet is a human-edited subject directory of the web with special attention paid to U.S. national and international news, the arts, culture, media, politics, law, science and technology. It is based in San Francisco, California. KWSnet contains over 120,000 annotated links to resources worldwide. Use Search for, located on each page, to search within this site. Use Ctrl-F to search within individual pages. A Site Index provides a complete alphabetized listing of all pages.
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