Research Guides: Landscape Architecture: Videos and Images

. Video Resources

The Art & Architecture Library houses a collection of DVDS that are available for checkout. In addition, the University Libraries subscribes to a number of streaming video databases. For a full list of streaming databases click here.

Artfilms Digital
Artfilms Digital provides streaming videos in the humanities and performing arts, art and architecture, and education, including documentaries and feature films.
Film Platform
Film Platform provides streaming, recently released, documentary films.
Films on Demand
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Films of Demand provides streaming videos on social science and life science topics. The videos use Flash for desktop computers and HTML5-compatible media for mobile devices. Streaming rights expire for content on this platform; see the catalog record for the individual films for expiration dates. Use the Share button to get a sharable link (don't copy the address from your browser).
Gnomon Workshop
Gnomon Workshop provides training videos in art and design. Register with your vt.edu email address to create an account.
Kanopy Streaming Videos
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NOTE: As of Spring 2021 Kanopy made changes to links and access, so proxied links to streaming videos on the platform will no longer work. Please update any links to Kanopy videos in Canvas, syllabi, etc, with the new URLs.

The new base URL is https://vt.kanopy.com with specific videos using the following format: https://vt.kanopy.com/video/seadrift

Kanopy provides hundreds of streaming videos in a wide variety of subjects. For videos outside our collection, you'll be presented a form to request they be added.
OnArchitecture
OnArchitecture provides videos on architectural subjects: interviews, buildings, and installations.
PBS Video
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This collection of streaming videos is the digital counterpart to our VHS collection of PBS shows. The collection covers a broad range of disciplines in the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences, but is particularly strong in American history and American studies.

You can link directly to the individual videos in the collection using the URL syntax described in the examples below. The normal bitrate videos are encoded at 300 kbps and may be accessed from anywhere on the Internet. The high bitrate movies are encoded at 800 kbps and are only accessible on-ground at UVa and from on-campus locations of some other VIVA members with high speed network connections to Charlottesville via the National Lambda Rail or Internet2 (Virginia Tech's campus has access to this network).

Standard video bitrate URL example
https://pbsvid.itc.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/secure/viva-pbs?pbs_amx025-1&N
High video bitrate URL example
https://pbsvid.itc.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/secure/viva-pbs?pbs_amx025-1&H
Standard video bitrate, start 5 minutes into the movie URL example
https://pbsvid.itc.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/secure/viva-pbs?pbs_amx025-1&N&00:05:00:00
High video bitrate, start 5 minutes into the movie, end at 6 minutes URL example
https://pbsvid.itc.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/secure/viva-pbs?pbs_amx025-1&H&00:05:00:00&00:06:00:00
Pidgeon Digital
Pidgeon Digital provides audiovisual presentations on architecture and design.
Swank Digital Campus
Swank offers over 1000 streaming videos: popular movies, documentaries, and foreign films.

Image Resources

The are many image collections available on through museums, universities, historical societies, etc. These types of collections will usually be higher resolution than images found on Google or Flickr. Remember, regardless of where you find an image, always check the usage permissions and cite the source.

Artstor
Artstor provides high quality images of visual media like paintings, photographs, architecture, sculpture, decorative arts, and other forms of visual culture. It provides tools to create, manage, and present collections of images. Prehistoric times-present.

Artstor's ever-increasing digital library includes more than 1.9 million high-quality images for education and research from a wide variety of contributors around the world. Dozens of collections from a wide variety of cultures across all major time periods have followed, including a collection of 190,000 old master drawings originally photographed at over 100 different repositories, 20 years of contemporary New York City gallery shows, archives of Islamic textiles, the restored Ghiberti "Gates of Paradise," African masks, medieval manuscripts, images of all exhibitions shown at MoMA, and many others.

Artstor facilitates research and education in numerous disciplines, including art and visual studies, architecture, religion, anthropology and archaeology, global studies, fashion and costume, classics, world history, and more. Our library is solely available for teaching, education and scholarship, with all images supported with comprehensive metadata and cleared for educational use.

Flickr
This online photo sharing site contains images contributed by users. Images of people, places, architecture, sculpture, landscapes, animals, events, etc. Not all contributors allow their images to be used.
Flickr Commons
A sub-site of Flickr, the Commons is a collection of images from cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and more. Many of these images are in the public domain. See the "Using and Citing Images" tab for more info.
American Memory Project
Primary source documents and archives for American history and culture from the Library of Congress. Includes printed text, collections of photographs, and some scanned manuscripts.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs

RIBApix
Images from the collections of the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects. Covers world architecture of all periods as well as interior design, landscape, topography, planning, construction, and decorative arts.

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