Useful websites - Working with images

Useful websites for Working with Images

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Please note some of the images on these websites may be inappropriate for your particular teaching context. These websites were selected to motivate you and the learner and to provoke debate in class, but some images may prove controversial.

Image-sharing sites

Slides

www.slideshare.net

Image manipulation

This site includes software which allows you to create posters, calendars, mosaics, magazine covers, captions, frames, badges, etc. with your own images – all useful for exploitation in class:

www.bighugelabs.com/flickr

Other useful image manipulation websites:

Video-sharing sites

Photo archives

Images are sold at hundreds of different online photo libraries such as:

Image dictionaries and lexicons

CAPL: Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon (with entries in English and German): www.washjeff.edu/capl
A collection of words found in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, etc.: www.thevisualdictionary.net

Press-image galleries

Reuters Prints (includes 'This Week' feature with best images of the week). Many are for sale: about.reuters.com/pictures/prints/galleries
The Guardian: 3276.e-printphoto.co.uk/guardian/

Puzzles and games

Help Google organise their images with this labelling game: images.google.com/imagelabeler
Includes games involving many different images: www.gamesforthebrain.com
Is it fake or is it a photo?: www.autodesk.com/eng/etc/fakeorfoto/quiz.html

Photography

A-Z of photographers, with images and articles: www.masters-of-photography.com
Selection of powerful agency images often taken in adverse conditions: www.inmotion.magnumphotos.com
Panoramic photography with sound which can turn 360 degrees: www.panoramas.dk
Virtual exhibitions from two historical institutions, the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and the International Center of Photography: www.photomuse.org/exhibitions.html

Art

Check out major gallery sites. Two of the best are:

the Tate Modern: www.tate.org.uk/modern
The Art Institute of Chicago: www.artic.edu

Art dictionary for artists, collectors, students and teachers: www.artlex.com
Private collection and site where anyone can upload their artwork in 'your gallery': www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/yourgallery
Independent archive of artworks, run by Mark Harden: www.artchive.com
Comprehensive artists' index; includes exhibition listings of both classic and contemporary work: www.artnet.com
High resolution images of well-known artworks. These can be analysed in detail: www.haltadefinizione.com

A selection of contemporary photographers/blogs that question our perspective of reality:

Graffiti / Urban art

A selection of innovative street art:

Advertising

A website with still and moving adverts from many countries: www.adsoftheworld.com
Anti-globalisation website featuring spoof adverts: www.adbusters.org
A selection of adverts, magazine covers, posters and comics: www.advertisingarchives.co.uk