Showcases and Featured Events:

Check on the AP Images homepage to find groupings of current event images. The images are automatically selected and are updated every 36 hours.

Basic Search:

• Search for Editorial Images

  • Choose from: All Photos, Sports, Entertainment, US Domestic News, International News, Financial News

  • Historical photos date from 1996 back to the 1800s

• Audio

• More Media

  • Print Graphics

  • Text Archives

• Search for APTOPIX to find the top picks of AP editors 

• Searched by pre-defined concepts. The concept corresponds the idea the photograph is displaying. Searchable concepts are:

  • adulation, aggression, amusement, anger, bizarre, boredom, burden, celebration, cold, comic, concentration, concern, confinement, confrontation, content, contrast, curious, cute, defeat, deserted, despair, destruction, determined, devout, diligence, dry, enjoyment, excitement, family, fear, freedom, friendship, grief, happy, hot, humor, isolation, lonely, love, mature, meditative, pain, passion, peaceful, pensive, poor, power, pride, reverence, searching, serene, hock, solemn, spacious, speed, stark, strong, suffer, surprise, tension, thin, tired, tranquil, vanity, violent, weak, wealth, wet, wonder and youth. 

  • Example: celebration:concept

• Search by dominant color. The 10 hues represented in the database are:

  • blue, red, yellow, green, orange, white, black, brown, purple and pink.  

  • Example: yellow:hue

• Search for “Obit” to find photos of people who have passed away or “Obit: person’s name” for specific person

Advanced Search:

• Limit your search by

  • Arrived Within-to find images that were added to the database during a specific period of time

  • Created Between

  • People-the people in the image

  • Event-you can enter a specific event or just click on the "Group" box to see your search results sorted by event

  • Source-most images are from AP but there are some from other sources.

  • Photographer

  • City, State, Country

  • Image ID

  • Orientation: vertical, horizontal, or both

  • Color: black and white, color, or both

Graphics:

• Within graphics you can search for logos, "how-to" home improvement projects, indexes, and house of the week with drafting plans
• To search for graphics in Spanish, use the keyword "grafico" or "Spangraph"
  • Example:
    
    • grafico and ciudad
    • grafico and misione
• To search for graphics in German, type the word "grafik" or enter your search term in German
• To find a timeline, search for "timeline and your topic"
  • Example:
    • timeline and Iraq
    • timeline and Haig
    • timeline and senate
• To find home improvement projects, use the keyword "apnh" (Associated Press on the House).
  • Example:
    • apnh and window