Free to Use and Reuse: Artists & Photographers

Featuring painters, sculptors, photographers, and movie cameras from the mid-1800s to the early 2000s. Unless otherwise noted, the images are from the Prints & Photographs Division.

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  Photographer and subject in Yokohama, Japan. Woodcut by Yoshitoshi Taiso, 1880.

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  Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, and his statue called Aviator. Photo, 1919.

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  Carol M. Highsmith, photographer, in Big Bend National Park, Texas. Digital photo, 2014.

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  James McNeill Whistler, painter, in his studio. Photo by G. P. Jacomb Hood, around 1890.

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  "U.S. official war pictures." World War I poster by Louis Fancher, 1917.

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  "My studio." Civil War drawing by Edwin Forbes, 1864.

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  Itinerant photographer from Columbus, Ohio. Photo by Ben Shahn, 1938.

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  "Waiting for the President." White House, Washington, DC. Photo by National Photo Co., 1922.

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  The artist's studio. Stereo photograph by Melander & Bro., 1874.

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  Gordon Parks, photographer, at the Office of War Information during World War II. Photo, around 1943.

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  Woman with camera and crowd at the March on Washington. Photo by Warren Leffler, 1963.

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  Arthur Rothstein, photographer for the Farm Security Administration. Photo, 1938.

• Hopi women decorating pottery. Stereo photograph by Underwood & Underwood, 1903.

• "Photographs, second annual exhibition, Sioux City Camera Club." WPA poster, Iowa, 1936-1939.

• Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin practice with a camera prior to Apollo 11. Photo by NASA, 1969.

• Andy Warhol, artist, with a Polavision movie camera. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, around 1977.

• Alex John Ettl, sculptor, with a bust of Cecil Arden. Photo by Bain News Service, 1920-1925.

• "Salon des Armées, réservé aux artistes du front." World War I poster by Henri Dangon, 1916.

• "Exposition des oeuvres des artistes originaires ... École des Beaux-Arts." World War I poster by Lucien Jonas, 1915.

• Studio of sculptor Daniel Chester French, Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2009.

• Advertisement for Seneca Duo camera. Photo by Rochester Photo Press, 1909.

• First movie camera in Edison's office and library, West Orange, New Jersey. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2017.

• Salvador Dali, artist. Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1939.

• Toni Frissell, photographer, with children looking at her camera. World War II photo, 1945.

• "Pygmy hippo and her new baby before a battery of press cameras," New York zoo. Photo by A.G. Baumann, 1919.

• Francis Lincoln and Lucy Lee with a camera. Photo by Francis Watts Lee, 1915-1920.

• Alfred Stieglitz, photographer. Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1908.

• Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, artist and photographer. Place card by William Mills Thomson, 1896.

• A young Masai interested in the camera, Arusha, Tanzania. Photo by Matson, 1936.

• Art students at Anacostia High School, Washington, DC. Photo by National Photo Co., 1939.

• "Art Classes for Children." WPA poster for Chicago, Illinois, 1936-1940.

• Georgia O'Keeffe, artist, sitting in her home studio. Photo by Balthazar Korab Studios, 1965.

• Crowd waiting for the Pope, Yankee Stadium, New York. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1979.

• "World's Largest Camera," a Kodak camera shown at Capitol Industrial Exposition. Photo by Underwood & Underwood, 1932.

• Ken Scharf, painter. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd, 1985.

• "Pinkey and the Camera." Photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, Washington, DC, 1888.

• "The Picture Gallery." Engraving, 1877.