Ten suppliers were chosen to provide images for Digital Images in Education, including commercial agencies for moving and still images, and five institutional collections.
Three collections were selected, which between them will provide an unrivalled collection of news and events from the last 25 years. In all, over 550 hours of moving image content will be provided, more than 20 hours of video and film for each year of history.
AP Archive
A unrivalled collection of news footage, including Associated Press, ABC News, and Sky News (launched 1989). AP’s coverage includes the Arab-Israeli conflict, the 2003 War in Iraq, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, conflict in the Balkans, US Presidents Bush, Reagan, and Clinton, and many more. Visit the AP website
Getty
8,000 clips covering cultural, social, and political issues, including images from over 35 separate collections. Getty has drawn on hundreds of thousands of high-quality downloadable footage clips, to depict the people, the places and the events that have shaped the world as we know it today. The source collections, used to provide news, sports, personalities, lifestyle, wildlife, locations, cultures, politics and more, include the renowned Archive Films and Image Bank Films, plus Discovery Footage Source (wildlife, nature, science and technology), AFP News (news footage from over 2,900 journalists across the globe), WireImage Video (fashion and celebrity) and many others. Visit the Getty website
Getty
Nearly 12,000 images of political, cultural, and social history, covering the major events of recent world history. Visit the Getty website
GovEd Communications
15,000 images by Francesco Troina, mainly covering architecture, design, engineering, media and travel and tourism. Visit the GovEd website
PYMCA
5,900 images of contemporary youth culture. These images provide powerful documentation of changing fashions and lifestyles of young people, depicted at their finest (and worst). Visit the PYMCA website
Institutional Collections
University of Brighton
Material from the University of Brighton Design Archives, including images of exhibitions, posters, products, and retail space design dating from 1945 to 1985. The collection comprises four separate components:
British exhibitions (800 images) – a rich visual record of British postwar exhibitions in the postwar period, including the Festival of Britain; national celebrations such as the 1953 Coronation; and the interiors of the Commonwealth Institute.
Posters (500 images) – images of artwork and printed posters advertising a wide range of services, products and events throughout the post-war years, in Britain and internationally.
Product Design (700 images) – by including location data for each image, this collection will help create a map of British manufacturing (much of which is long gone), and includes rare sets of images relating to manufacturing processes: furniture; glass; printed textiles.
Retail and Domestic Spaces (300 images) – the changing face of British retail from shop fascias, interiors, signage and display, alongside domestic interiors from the 1930s to the end of the century. Visit the University of Brighton Design Archives
The North Highland College
The Johnston Collection is a historic photographic collection of national and European significance dating from as early as 1840. The Johnston family were amongst the earliest pioneers of photography, and their work spans almost a hundred and forty year period between around 1840 and 1979. Working in and around the Caithness and Sutherland areas, their subject matter ranged from general Highland life, through the fishing industry, working women, politics, architecture, and general portraiture, all of it of considerable historic value. The last remaining member of the Johnston dynasty still resides in Wick, and it is he who donated the collection to its current guardians.
Imperial War Museum
This comprises three collections: Art of First World War; Art of the Second World War, and a unique collection of proclamations. All the main figures of British art in the twentieth century are represented, from academic painters, like John Singer Sargent and William Orpen, to leading progressive artists, such as Paul Nash, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer. The proclamations collection is drawn from around 33,000 paper items from the First and Second World Wars, conveying official instructions and statements at home and abroad during wartime, conveying powerfully the civilian wartime experience of officialdom. Visit the Imperial War Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Images supplied cover a wide range of pictorial content drawn from the rich, diverse and internationally significant collections of The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, including major artists such as Canaletto, J.M.W. Turner, George Stubbs and John Constable. Every image is tagged by geographical location and a date or period. Visit the Fitzwilliam Museum
A large proportion of the images will portray historical events, human activities and industries. For example, George Stubbs’ painting of the horse “Gimcrack with John Pratt up on Newmarket Heath” of c.1765 marks an important period in the history of horse-racing in Britain, when the coloured silks of patrons had been introduced and the sport had begun to attract a wide public.
Some images depict engineering structures or science and technology subjects: a number of ceramics, for example, have images of industrial buildings and events, such as the Great Exhibition of 1851 or the Dublin Industrial Exhibition of 1853. A painting such as Ford Madox Brown’s “The Last of England”, depicting 19th-century emigrants leaving the UK with the cliffs of Dover in the background, offers comparative material on the theme of emigration within a social, political and cultural context.
Image Sources
Ten suppliers were chosen to provide images for Digital Images in Education, including commercial agencies for moving and still images, and five institutional collections.
Moving images
Three collections were selected, which between them will provide an unrivalled collection of news and events from the last 25 years. In all, over 550 hours of moving image content will be provided, more than 20 hours of video and film for each year of history.
AP Archive
A unrivalled collection of news footage, including Associated Press, ABC News, and Sky News (launched 1989). AP’s coverage includes the Arab-Israeli conflict, the 2003 War in Iraq, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, conflict in the Balkans, US Presidents Bush, Reagan, and Clinton, and many more. Visit the AP website
Getty
8,000 clips covering cultural, social, and political issues, including images from over 35 separate collections. Getty has drawn on hundreds of thousands of high-quality downloadable footage clips, to depict the people, the places and the events that have shaped the world as we know it today. The source collections, used to provide news, sports, personalities, lifestyle, wildlife, locations, cultures, politics and more, include the renowned Archive Films and Image Bank Films, plus Discovery Footage Source (wildlife, nature, science and technology), AFP News (news footage from over 2,900 journalists across the globe), WireImage Video (fashion and celebrity) and many others. Visit the Getty website
ITN Source
6,300 clips focusing on UK news coverage. Visit the ITN Source website
Still images
Getty
Nearly 12,000 images of political, cultural, and social history, covering the major events of recent world history. Visit the Getty website
GovEd Communications
15,000 images by Francesco Troina, mainly covering architecture, design, engineering, media and travel and tourism. Visit the GovEd website
PYMCA
5,900 images of contemporary youth culture. These images provide powerful documentation of changing fashions and lifestyles of young people, depicted at their finest (and worst). Visit the PYMCA website
Institutional Collections
University of Brighton
Material from the University of Brighton Design Archives, including images of exhibitions, posters, products, and retail space design dating from 1945 to 1985. The collection comprises four separate components:
British exhibitions (800 images) – a rich visual record of British postwar exhibitions in the postwar period, including the Festival of Britain; national celebrations such as the 1953 Coronation; and the interiors of the Commonwealth Institute.
Posters (500 images) – images of artwork and printed posters advertising a wide range of services, products and events throughout the post-war years, in Britain and internationally.
Product Design (700 images) – by including location data for each image, this collection will help create a map of British manufacturing (much of which is long gone), and includes rare sets of images relating to manufacturing processes: furniture; glass; printed textiles.
Retail and Domestic Spaces (300 images) – the changing face of British retail from shop fascias, interiors, signage and display, alongside domestic interiors from the 1930s to the end of the century. Visit the University of Brighton Design Archives
The North Highland College
The Johnston Collection is a historic photographic collection of national and European significance dating from as early as 1840. The Johnston family were amongst the earliest pioneers of photography, and their work spans almost a hundred and forty year period between around 1840 and 1979. Working in and around the Caithness and Sutherland areas, their subject matter ranged from general Highland life, through the fishing industry, working women, politics, architecture, and general portraiture, all of it of considerable historic value. The last remaining member of the Johnston dynasty still resides in Wick, and it is he who donated the collection to its current guardians.
Imperial War Museum
This comprises three collections: Art of First World War; Art of the Second World War, and a unique collection of proclamations. All the main figures of British art in the twentieth century are represented, from academic painters, like John Singer Sargent and William Orpen, to leading progressive artists, such as Paul Nash, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Stanley Spencer. The proclamations collection is drawn from around 33,000 paper items from the First and Second World Wars, conveying official instructions and statements at home and abroad during wartime, conveying powerfully the civilian wartime experience of officialdom. Visit the Imperial War Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Images supplied cover a wide range of pictorial content drawn from the rich, diverse and internationally significant collections of The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, including major artists such as Canaletto, J.M.W. Turner, George Stubbs and John Constable. Every image is tagged by geographical location and a date or period. Visit the Fitzwilliam Museum
A large proportion of the images will portray historical events, human activities and industries. For example, George Stubbs’ painting of the horse “Gimcrack with John Pratt up on Newmarket Heath” of c.1765 marks an important period in the history of horse-racing in Britain, when the coloured silks of patrons had been introduced and the sport had begun to attract a wide public.
Some images depict engineering structures or science and technology subjects: a number of ceramics, for example, have images of industrial buildings and events, such as the Great Exhibition of 1851 or the Dublin Industrial Exhibition of 1853. A painting such as Ford Madox Brown’s “The Last of England”, depicting 19th-century emigrants leaving the UK with the cliffs of Dover in the background, offers comparative material on the theme of emigration within a social, political and cultural context.