Law Subject Guide: Media - Images & Artwork

Image (from the Internet)

Components:

Author(s), Image Title, image file type, publication date, image's URL.

Example:

Noel Celis, Plastic Items Float atop a Garbage-Filled Creek in Manila, Philippines, on May 12, 2018, JPEG image, June 5, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/06/the-theme-for-world-environment-day-2018-is-beat-plastic-pollution/562082/.

Infographic

Components:

Author(s), Infographic Title, image file type, publication date, image's URL.

Example:

Zachary Crockett, More People Are Sexually Assaulted in the US Each Year Than US Soldier Deaths in WWI, WWII, and the Vietnam War Combined, PNG image, October 24, 2016, https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/10/24/13352100/sexual-assault-america-charts.

Artwork (viewed online)

Components:

Author(s), Artwork Title, publication date, medium of artwork, artwork's dimensions, artwork's URL or Database Title.

Example:

Henry Darger, We Will Slam Them with Our Wings, 1950-1970, watercolor, pencil, carbon tracing, and collage on pieced paper, 24 x 106 1/2", https://libproxy.howardcc.edu/login?url=https://library.artstor.org/asset/AAFOLKAIG_10313142568.

Artwork (viewed, in person, at a museum)

Components:

Author(s), Artwork Title, publication date, medium of the artwork, artwork's dimensions, Name of Museum, Location of Museum.

Example:

Mickalene Thomas, Portrait of Mnonja, 2010, rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel on wood panel, 96 x 120", Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.