Selecting Images: Visual Rhetoric

 

David Blakesley, Purdue University, course on visual rhetoric

 

Visual Rhetoric Portal

 

Online Visual Literacy Project: Pomona College

 

 

Online Images

 

Google Image Search

 

Alta Vista Image Search

 

Yahoo Picture Gallery

 

Ditto

 

Flickr

 

Image Search Engines

Wikipedia:Public domain image resources:

 

Open Clip Art

 

Shutterpoint

Realimagenbank

 

Shutterstock

 

Ixuz

 

Corbis.com

 

Ditto.com: The Place for Pictures

 

NYPL Digital Gallery

 

Lycos Richmedia

 

New York Times Multimedia

 

Pics4 Learning

 

Pic Search

 

Proteus Image Search (combined search interface)

 

Web SEEk: Content-based Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the Web

 

Yahoo Picture Gallery

 

American Photography: A Century of Images

 

Classroom Clip Art

 

Image Finder (UC Berkeley)

 

Image Request

 

morgueFile

 

Pixel Perfect Digital

 

Open Photo

 

Image After

 

PD Photo

 

49 PM Photo Search

 

Buzznet

 

Ourmedia.org

 

Free Foto

 

CC Search

 

Gimp Savvy

 

Free Photographs Network

 

Free Stock Photos.com

 

Free Images.com

 

bigfoto.com

 

Free Photos.com

 

Creating Online Gallery

 

yotophoto

 

pixelbag.de

 

Woophy

 

Image Base

 

Photocase

 

Visipix

 

Burning Well.org

 

freedigitalphotos.net

 

Free Photos Bank

 

Picturestation

 

Stockcache Gallery

 

Google Video: video clips for use in analysis film techniques

 

Google: National Archives footage

 

Ditto.com: image database searchable by keyword; includes URL for seeking permissions

 

Photoblogs.org: links to thousands of photography blogs

Photojunkie

Constant Camera

 

 

 

Image tagging systems

 

Del.icio.us: a “social bookmarking site,”

allowing users to save and tag web pages and resources

 

Yahoo! My Web2.0 : similar to

Del.icio.us, but including a social network of contacts

 

Flickr : a photo sharing system

allowing users to store and tag their personal photos

 

Youtube : a video sharing system

allowing users to upload video content and describe it with tags

 

 

For information about these sites

Terry Freedman (2005), Photo-sharing and Clip-art

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/terryfreedman

 

Paula Berinstein, Finding Images Online: A Directory of Web Image Sites

 

 

Using Images in the Classroom

 

Smith College Imaging & Communication Center

 

Barbara Ganley: writing stories without words

 

The Right To Image: A WebQuest

 

Kid's Image Search Tools

 

Classroom Clipart

 

Using Pictures in Lessons

 

Citing Images and Pictures

 

Visual rhetoric assignments: ways of using visual images in writing assignments