Faculty Resources: Finding Images

Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse

Curationist a space for finding and collecting significant cultural and historical resources that are not limited by copyright. Curationist strives for inclusion, integrated value creation and innovation as an unfixed and intersectional hub of many cultures.

When you do a Google Search, you can filter your results to find images, videos, or text that you have permission to use. To do this, use an Advanced Search filter called "usage rights" that lets you know when you can use, share, or modify something you find online.

Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects.
Click on an image to download the high-resolution version. New awesome pictures added weekly. All pictures were photographed by Ryan McGuire and free of copyright restrictions.

Image*After is a large online free photo collection. It allows users to download images or textures and use them in personal or commercial work.

OpenPhoto.Net offers free stock photos.

Free stock photos you can use everywhere. Free for commercial use, and no attribution required.

Over 2.4 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music shared by our talented community. High quality photos, illustrations, and vector graphics. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.

Free high-resolution photos.

Image search engine that locates high-resolution images with Creative Commons licenses for use in presentations, blogs, etc. Also retrieves stock photos.

Wunderstock is a free photo library that provides access to tens of thousands of high quality public domain photos plus extended results for 10+ million Creative Commons images on Flickr.

A moderate-sized collection of travel photographs, organized geographically.

"Burst is a free stock photo site that is powered by Shopify. We have 1000’s of high quality and royalty-free images available and free to download. This includes a wide variety of images ready for you to choose from and create with."

Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse

"A search engine for free photos. We search almost 30 million free photos under 10 free licenses." Users must verify that the licenses on this site are accurate and current for the image they want to use.

"Search through thousands of free (CC0 licensed) stock photos" by keyword or color.

Flickr users can opt to use a creative commons license to share their work with others and also locate images for use.

Not just personal collections of pictures on this site. Has expanded after a joint venture between Flickr and the Library of Congress. Purpose is to increase access to publicly held image collections. Includes images with no known copyright restrictions which you can find by using Advance Search. Growing number of collections like the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Library, etc. are placing their material on this site. You can also help tag these images.

Not only does this link give you a list of "free" image banks" in the U.S. and abroad, but it also talks a bit about rights clearance for images

The 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.

Huge collection of images, both national and international in scope. When copyright is an issue, only thumbnails are provided. When images are in the public domain, images are available for download, although resolutions vary. Includes the American Memory Project of digitized American history material.

"Contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site."

(NYPL) Free and open access to over 800,000 images that are digitized from the Library’s Collections. Of note are the Arts & Literature Collections: Africana & Black History, Dance in Photographs and Prints, and the Vandamm Archive featuring "theatrical personalities and production" from the 1920s-1957.

"We have a large collection of royalty free images that can be used in any project (personal or commercial)."

Free high-resolution photos.

Image search engine that locates high-resolution images with Creative Commons licenses for use in presentations, blogs, etc. Also retrieves stock photos.

All media repository. Unlike its partner, Wikipedia, images included here are in the public domain and freely licensed for educational use. Museums such as the Walters Art Museum, the British Museum and other museums are placing their copyright –free images on this site also.