Visual Research

Just because an image is found on the internet, it doesn't mean that it is there for you to use without permission.

Although student work can often be considered Fair Use of a copyrighted work, it is good practice to always look for a statement of permissible use and/or a suggested credit line before using the image. (See the College Art Association's Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in the Visual Arts for guidelines to follow. 

Can't find any? If possible, contact the copyright holder to ask permission (hey, it never hurts!), or failing that, find an alternative resource.

For more about copyright:

•  Artist’s name
•  Object Name / Descriptive Title
•  Date
•  Medium / Material(s)
•  Dimensions
•  Provenance (specific place of origin, if known -- i.e. city in Italy)
•  Current location (museum, private collection, etc.)
•  Image source (formatted in Chicago Manual of Style)

To cite your image in-text:

• Reference illustrations with a parenthetical reference at the end of a sentence, including the abbreviation for figure in lowercase letters, as follows (fig. 1).
• If you reproduce images from a print source then replace the "Reproduced from the National Gallery of Art" credit line at the end of the caption with a credit line for the book, with page number, as below.
• Reproduced from Werner Kriegeskorte, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1527-1593 (Los Angeles: Taschen, 2004), 72. (adapted from CiteSource, Trinity College)