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Video and Images and Art

Learn how to find and credit videos, images, art, and photographs for your papers and presentations

Image Database

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A collection of art images and descriptive information of over 700,000 items as well as software tools to search and store images from the collection for research and/or teaching. Cookies must be enabled to use all of the tools.

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MLA Example:

Citing Images from a Database in MLA:

Author's last name, First. Title of Work. Date of Work. Database Name. Medium [always "Web" for databases]. Date accessed.

Hine, Lewis W. Making Human Junk. 1915. ARTstor. Web. 18 Feb. 2015.

Click on MLA Citations from the menu on the left
From the dropdown menu select 69. Work of art for another example

APA Example:

Citing Images from a Database in APA:

Artist Surname, First Initial. Second Initial. (Date). Title of the artwork [Format]. Retrieved from URL (address of web site)

Hine, L.W. (1915). Making human junk [fpx]. Retrieved from http://library.artstor.org/library/secure/ViewImages?id=

8CJGczI9NzldLS1WEDhzTnkrX3gueFt9eCM%3D&userId=hDFBdTM%3D&zoomparams=

ARTstor Tips

Double click on the image to open it in a new window and enlarge

Double click on the text under the image to access the image Information
Click on File Properties to get the persistent URL or embed code