The Visual Resources division of the Department of Art and Archaeology has existed since the end of the 19th century. The primary mission of Visual Resources is to provide materials that support the Department’s curriculum, as well as to provide support for research undertaken by students, faculty, and staff of the Department and the University. In this way, over time, resources has come to refer to the physical and digital teaching image collection; the physical and digital archival and archaeological collections; and the expertise and guidance (in the form of group workshops or individual consultations) offered by members of the division’s core team on topics like image file management; copyright; image cataloging; photography for research and publication; and digital project planning and management; and more. 

• Management and delivery of digital images for teaching (JSTOR and CANVAS), and of department collections (collections.visualresources.princeton.edu)
• Identifying and securing best quality images for classroom, research and publication use through photography, scanning, vendors, etc
• Instruction and support services (one-on-one and group) in photography, digitization, digital tools (i.e. DH), image permissions and copyright, image editing, image collection management

Considering paying for an image from a commercial vendor like Alamy, Getty Images? Wait! We can help.

Are you going to purchase a digital camera for a trip and not sure what to consider? We can help.

Unsure if you should ask for permission to use an image of a work of art in a website you are building? We can help.

Are you looking at an image of a work of art for a presentation and thinking “this will have to do”? We can help.

Would you like to undertake research in one of the department’s collections, such as the excavation documentation from Antioch or Morgantina? We can help.

Are you thinking about art as data, maybe showing a museum collection as a graph? We can help.