LibGuides: Graphic Arts Resources: Find Images

Free Stock Photo Sites

Many of these sites require a free subscription or account. Some offer premiere accounts for a fee.

Getty Images
Royalty Free Stock Photos
Gratisography
Some free high-resolution photos by Ryan McGuire with no copyright restrictions. You can also subscribe to more with a paid subscription.
ISO Republic
"High quality, free photos for creatives".
Jéshoots
High resolution, free photos. Permission to use is granted by the creator of the website.
Life Of Pix
Free high resolution photos with no copyright restrictions. New photos are added every week.
Little Visuals
Little Visuals posts 7 high-resolution images every 7 days. Licensed under Creative Commons Zero.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Free download and use of 400,000 images for non-commercial purposes.
Moveast
"This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving east that decided that every photo should be used for free. Help yourselves and use them wherever you want (CCO)."
New Old Stock
Images in Public Archives from around the world. "Free of known copyright restrictions" and in no particular order.
Picjumbo
Permission to use is granted to anyone who wants to access this library of free images.
Picography
Free hi-resolution photos. "Use them however you like."
Pixabay
Images are free for commercial use and no attribution is required even for commercial publications.
Snapwire Snaps
Sign up to receive "7 snaps every 7 days (free to use)"
SplitShire
Free stock photos by Daniel Nanescu.
Tinyography
Free "use as you please" IPhone photos by Ryan McGwire. It asks you to download null Extension, but you can skip it and go on to the site.
Travel Coffee Book
Travel photography. All photos are licensed under Creative Commons Zero. You can subscribe to get 10 new photos every 10 days or download all photos when you visit the site.
Unsplash
Unsplash offers you 10 high-resolution stock photos every 10 days. Licensed under Creative Commons Zero, you can use the photos without asking permission.

Image Databases

Florida Memory This link opens in a new window
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
World Digital Library This link opens in a new window

Image Resources on the Internet

British Library Images Collection
Free use.
Can I Use That Picture?
The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images.
Cary Graphic Arts Collection Image Database
The Getty Research Institute
Google Images
The images found here may or may not be copyrighted.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Free use of over 400,000 images for non-commercial purposes.
Obsidian Collection Archive

Tallahassee Democrat Photos

Tallahassee Democrat Photos via the Florida Memory Project
From the website: Approximately 5,000 published and unpublished images of Tallahassee area people, places, and events taken by Tallahassee Democrat photographers between 1955 and the 1970s. Digitization is still in process — new photos will be available every week.