Images

A broad listing category where you can find Image banks relevant to an equally broad range of practice.

The image libraries listed here include both nationally recognised and slightly more obscure sources.

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  • 29 September Farbdiaarchiv
    website
    http://www.zi.fotothek.org

    Online images taken by Nazi forces in Germany during the war of wall and ceiling paintings in German buildings.

  • 29 September FineArt.ac.uk
    website
    http://www.fineart.ac.uk

    Fineart.ac.uk is a national web-based collection of work by staff and students of UK higher education institutions who have made a significant contribution to UK fine art education through practice. The images are drawn upon work from the mid 19th century through to the present day held within 10 institutions (from the University of the Arts London, Slade School of Fine Art, Royal College of Art, Norwich, University of Brighton - The Aldrich Collection, Birmingham, Leeds, University of Ulster, Glasgow, Dundee and the collection of the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA)).

  • 29 September Images of England
    website
    http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk

    Images of England is a heritage initiative run by the National Monuments Record, the public archive of English Heritage. The project aims to create a 'point in time' photographic record of every listed building in England. Each of the 370,000 images are being posted alongside existing list descriptions for each building to create what will be one of the largest free to access digital image libraries in the world. Simple, 'quick' searches need no registration, but advanced searches require a free registration to access.

  • 29 September National Art Library
    address
    Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
    telephone
    020 7942 2400
    email
    vanda@vam.ac.uk
    website
    http://www.vam.ac.uk/nal/

    The NAL is a major reference library and the Victoria and Albert's curatorial department for the art, craft and design of the book. The library contains collections relating to both fine art and applied arts practice. Admission to the V&A is now free. Anyone wishing to use the library should contact them for visiting times and the readers' tickets available.

  • 29 September The National Archives
    address
    Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
    telephone
    020 8876 3444
    fax
    020 8392 5295
    email
    Enquiry@nationalarchives.gov.uk
    website
    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

    Houses the national archives of England and the United Kingdom, that is, records created by the actions of central government and of the courts of law of England and Wales. The documents number many millions, ranging in date from the Norman Conquest to the present day.

  • 29 September Archaeology Data Service (ADS)
    address
    Department of Archaeology,The King's Manor, University of York, York YO1 7EP
    telephone
    01904 323 954,
    email
    help@ads.ahds.ac.uk
    website
    ads.ahds.ac.uk

    The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology

  • 29 September British Council Online Collection
    address
    British Council Arts Group, 10 Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BN
    telephone
    020 7389 3194
    email
    visual.arts@britishcouncil.org
    website
    http://collection.britishcouncil.org/collection

    The site gives a very good impression of the amount and types of work held in this public collection split between artist, portfolio collections and current touring exhibitions. As the collection mainly tours overseas and because of security, to see a specific work you have to book an appointment with the Visual Arts Department (assuming the work is in storage at that time) before visiting. The online gallery shows a good amount of works.

  • 29 September British Library Online Images
    address
    96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB
    telephone
    020 7412 7614
    email
    imagesonline@bl.uk
    website
    bit.ly/kIQMvY

    Images Online gives you instant access to thousands of images from the British Library's unparalleled collections.

  • 29 September Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature (CartoonsHub)
    address
    The Templeman Library, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NU
    telephone
    Tel/Fax: 01227 823 127
    email
    n.p.hiley@ukc.ac.uk
    website
    library.kent.ac.uk/cartoons/

    Holds 80,000 original cartoon drawings by British 20th century artists published in the press. It also has a non-lending reference library, a photo library and an on-line database with 37,000 digitised images

  • 29 September VADS
    address
    VADS, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham Campus, Falkner Road, Farnham GU9 7DS
    email
    info@vads.ac.uk
    website
    http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/index.html

    AHDS provides collections of visual arts digital resources and advice for their creation and use through its website. Its sources include archives from the Imperial War Museum, London College of Fashion, National Arts Education Archive and The Design Council Archive, and covers Fine Art, Design, Photography, Architecture, Applied Arts, History and Theory of Art, Media, Museum Studies and Conservation, and professional practice.

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