If you fancy your very own piece of the often barbaric and macabre history of medicine, then a new collection of over a hundred thousand ancient images could be for you. Wellcome Images, one of the ...

The British Library is one of the greatest libraries in the world, with a collection than spans more than 170 million artifacts—the largest in the world. For the past two decades the British Library ...

Earlier this month, Open Culture pointed to a big move from the British Library: the library is putting a million images into the public domain. An image by Eliza F. Manning from “The Coming of Father ...

Last year, Getty Images began to double down on how it could better control and ultimately make money from its library of 150 million of pictures (and counting) online. The first step was a ...

This week, the New York Public Library (NYPL) announced the release of over 180,000 public domain images available in high resolution. In conjunction, NYPL Labs launched a data visualization by Brian ...

Historians interested in the way events and people were chronicled in the old days once had to sort through card catalogs for old papers, then microfiche scans, then digital listings — but modern ...

Carol Highsmith is a distinguished photographer who has traveled all over America, aiming to chronicle for posterity the life of the nation in the early 21 st century. She’s donating her work to the ...

Matt Bartok holds a stereo card featuring pictures of Half Dome shot from Glacier Point in Yosemite during the late 19th century. State Library 3-D photo experts are in the midst of converting 15,000 ...

The stock photo giant has entered into a deal with AI giant Nvidia to create AI tools trained on Getty's copyright-protected library of stock images. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Earlier ...