List of online image archives

This is an incomplete list of notable online image archives, including both image hosting websites like Flickr and archives hosted by libraries and other academic or historical institutions.

List of archives


Site	Type	Number of Images	Video	Sound	Search	Languages
Adobe Stock	Stock Images	100,000,000+	Yes	No	Yes	English, French
Alamy	Stock Images	95,000,000+	Yes	No	Yes	English (Default)+ German
ArenaPAL Performing Arts Image Library	Performing Arts	5,000,000+	No	No	Yes	English
Artstor Digital Library
Associated Press AP Images
Bridgeman Art Library
California Digital Library
California State University, Northridge, Oviatt Library Digital Collections
Camera Press
Chicago Daily News (1902–1933), collection of over 55,000 images on glass plate negatives
Corbis Images
Depositphotos	Stock Images	164,000,000+ (June 2020)	Yes	No	Yes	English (Default)+ 21 other languages
Europeana
Flickr	Commons		Yes	No	No	English (Default) + 9 other languages
Frick Digital Image Archive
Geograph Britain and Ireland	Commons	5,100,000+ (Nov 2016 ^[1])	No	No	Yes	English
Getty Images IStock Thinkstock
Harvard Library
Internet Archive		3.5 million^[2]	Yes	Yes	Yes
Library of Congress	Public domain
Life (magazine)
Nationaal Archief (1945–1989) collection of over 400,000 (Dutch) press-images	Commons	approximately 400,000	No	No	Yes	Dutch (Default)+ English
National Geographic Image Collection (1888–present), collection of more than 10 million digital images, transparencies, b&w prints, early auto chromes, and pieces of original artwork
New York Daily News (1880–2007), online photo archive DailyNewsPix, with photographs dating back to 1880
New York Public Library	≈ 30% Public domain	922,400+ (May 2024)^[3]	No	No	Yes	English
Pexels	Pexels license		Yes	No	Yes
Pixabay	Pixabay license	950,000+ (May 2017)	Yes	No	Yes	English (Default) + 25 other languages
Pond5	Royalty-free	11,000,000+ (Jan 2017)	Yes	Yes	Yes	English (Default) + 7 other languages
Smithsonian Institution / Smithsonian Open Access		4,400,000+ (Jan 2023)
Shutterstock^[4]	Royalty-free	319,990,308 (Jan 2020)	Yes	Yes	Yes	English (Default) + 19 other languages
The New York Times
Time
United Press International (1907–2007)
United States National Library of Medicine, images from the history of medicine
University of Southern California Libraries
Unsplash	Commons with additional restrictions^[5]	1,000,000+ (2020)	No	No	Yes	English
Wikimedia Commons	Commons	79,000,000+ (Nov 2021) ^[6]	Yes	Yes	Yes	English (Default) + other languages

References

^ "Progress So far... :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
^ "Image". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved October 12, 2020.
^ "About The New York Public Library Digital Collections - NYPL Digital Collections". digitalcollections.nypl.org. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
^ Stephen Shankland "Shutterstock Buys Rival, Shifts Photo Sales Strategy" Archived 2014-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, CNET, September 23, 2009
^ Unsplash. "License | Unsplash". unsplash.com. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
^ Statistics page on Wikimedia Commons

[geograph-1] "Progress So far... :: Geograph Britain and Ireland". geograph.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-12-14.

[2] "Image". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved October 12, 2020.

[3] "About The New York Public Library Digital Collections - NYPL Digital Collections". digitalcollections.nypl.org. Retrieved 2024-05-01.

[CNET_9-23-2009-4] Stephen Shankland "Shutterstock Buys Rival, Shifts Photo Sales Strategy" Archived 2014-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, CNET, September 23, 2009

[5] Unsplash. "License | Unsplash". unsplash.com. Retrieved 2017-07-16.

[CommonsStats-6] Statistics page on Wikimedia Commons

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Equipment	Camera light-field digital field instant phone pinhole press rangefinder SLR still TLR toy view Darkroom enlarger safelight Film base format holder stock available films discontinued films Filter Flash beauty dish cucoloris gobo hot shoe lens hood monolight reflector snoot softbox Lens long-focus prime zoom wide-angle fisheye swivel telephoto Manufacturers Monopod Movie projector Slide projector Tripod head Zone plate
Terminology	35 mm equivalent focal length Angle of view Aperture Backscatter Black-and-white Chromatic aberration Circle of confusion Clipping Color balance Color temperature Depth of field Depth of focus Exposure Exposure compensation Exposure value Zebra patterning F-number Film format large medium Film speed Focal length Guide number Hyperfocal distance Lens flare Metering mode Perspective distortion Photograph Photographic printing Albumen Photographic processes Reciprocity Red-eye effect Science of photography Shutter speed Sync Zone System
Genres	Abstract Aerial Aircraft Architectural Astrophotography Banquet Candid Conceptual Conservation Cloudscape Documentary Eclipse Ethnographic Erotic Fashion Fine-art Fire Forensic Glamour High-speed Landscape Monochrome Nature Neues Sehen Nude Photojournalism Pictorialism Pornography Portrait Post-mortem Ruins Selfie space selfie Social documentary Sports Still life Stock Straight photography Street Toy camera Underwater Vernacular Wedding Wildlife
Techniques	Afocal Bokeh Brenizer Burst mode Contre-jour ETTR Fill flash Fireworks Hand-colouring Harris shutter High-speed Holography Infrared Intentional camera movement Kirlian Kite aerial Lo-fi photography Long-exposure Luminogram Macro Mordançage Multiple exposure Multi-exposure HDR capture Night Panning Panoramic Photogram Print toning Pigeon photography Redscale Rephotography Rollout Scanography Schlieren photography Sabattier effect Slow motion Stereoscopy Stopping down Strip Slit-scan Sun printing Tilt–shift Miniature faking Time-lapse Ultraviolet Vignetting Xerography Zoom burst
Composition	Diagonal method Framing Headroom Lead room Rule of thirds Simplicity Golden triangle (composition)
History	Timeline of photography technology Ambrotype Analog photography Autochrome Lumière Box camera Calotype Camera obscura Daguerreotype Dufaycolor Heliography Lippmann plate Painted photography backdrops Photography and the law Glass plate Tintype Visual arts
Regional	Albania Bangladesh Canada China Denmark Greece India Japan Korea Luxembourg Norway Philippines Serbia Slovenia Sudan Taiwan Turkey Ukraine United States Uzbekistan Vietnam
Digital photography	Digital camera D-SLR comparison MILC camera back Digiscoping Comparison of digital and film photography Film scanner Image sensor CMOS APS CCD Three-CCD camera Foveon X3 sensor Image sharing Pixel
Color photography	Print film Chromogenic print Reversal film Color management color space primary color CMYK color model RGB color model
Photographic processing	Bleach bypass C-41 process Collodion process Cross processing Cyanotype Developer Digital image processing Dye coupler E-6 process Fixer Gelatin silver process Gum printing Instant film K-14 process Print permanence Push processing Stop bath
Lists	Most expensive photographs Museums devoted to one photographer Photographs considered the most important Photographers Norwegian Polish street women Photography periodicals
Related	Conservation and restoration of photographs film photographic plates Lomography Polaroid art Stereoscopy
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