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REFERENCE DESK: IMAGES

Reference Desk:

      TOP RANKED RESOURCES:

      News Photos:

  1. AP Top Stories Images
  2. BBC: Today in Pictures
  3. DefenseLink News Photos
  4. Reuters News
  5. Washington Post: Day in Photos

      Image Collections:

  1. Eastman Photography Collection Online - Resource for the photography holdings of George Eastman House.
  2. FreeFoto.com - Offers digital images to view and download at no cost to non-commercial users.
  3. Getty Images - "Find high resolution royalty-free images, editorial stock photos, vector art, video footage clips and stock music licensing at the richest image search photo library online."
  4. Library of Congress: American Memory Collection - Rich collection of documents, photographs, recordings, and more devoted to American history and culture.
  5. National Geographic Vision of Earth - Each month, National Geographic magazine features breathtaking photographs in Visions of Earth. Browse through visions of the world as seen through a photographer's eye.
  6. Time and Life Pictures - Offers images from photojournalists, documenting past and present political and cultural events, as well as celebrities and the American experience.
  7. TIME LightBox - For decades, TIME Magazine has been a showcase for the world's best photojournalism, bearing witness to the most notable moments of history - the triumphs and the tragedies - of the past 90 years. LightBox, a blog created and curated by TIME's photo department, proudly furthers this tradition, exploring how photography, video and visual culture help to shape and define the modern world.

      Satellite Images:

  1. Google Earth - Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
  2. TerraFly - Interactive site for flying over remote sensed imagery from different regions of the world.
  3. TerraServer.com - Repository of aerial photographs and satellite images taken from miles overhead that you can view online or purchase. Features digitized aerial photos of the United States.

      Image Search Engines:

  1. Google Image Search - Search for images on the World Wide Web.
  2. PicSearch - Family friendly picture search.






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