Record the origins of all your source materials, just like you would create a bibliography for a research paper. This is a good habit for many reasons, most of all it is the beginning of thinking ethically about images as material artifacts. For the purposes of this course, any imagery you use will fall under what is called Fair Use. This is because you are producing work for educational, rather than commercial, reasons. However, once you are making work outside of educational contexts, things become a bit more complicated. One classification of material that is ALWAYS safe to use is that which is in the Public Domain, meaning it is not protected by any copyright restrictions on its use.
Print Sources As we consider the materiality of images, we need to enage with the variety of images that surround us - not just those present on electronic screens and accessible by internet image searches. There are LOTS of great sources for images that are not available through web searches - we should make use of them (and the specific histories that they give us access to). Our library provides access to an amazing archive, especially in the OVERSIZED shelves. Sometimes you have to scan these in the library, because they are non-circulating. Search for books on Clip Art on the Library catalog Search for books from the Dover Pictorial Archive on the Library Catalog Many artists, designers, architects, film makers and illustrators keep massive amounts of clipped material around for reference material. They also organize it in order to make it more accessible and searchable. If they're really into archives and image collections, they share these, becoming a kind of mini-library for other, like-minded artists.