About the database: The AP Images database consists of over 5.5 million Associated Press photographs (1825 - present) with 3,000 photos added daily.  It also contains 180,000 graphics, primary source radio news (1920s - present), hourly audio newscasts and current news articles.

Case #1: To cite a photograph

When you click on a photograph, an enlarged image opens in a separate Web page.  This web page includes the name of the photographer, when and where the photograph was taken, an image ID number, size and resolution.  A substantive caption describes the background of the event, includes a list of people in the image and other pertinent information including quotations by participants. 

Cite an AP Image as a photograph in a database.

Procedure: Choose the "Painting, Sculpture or Photograph" citation type, then select:

• Painting, sculpture, photograph, etc. a photograph from an online database like Corbis, AP Images, or Flickr
• Online: Work of art displayed as part of an online museum or collection, or an online database of images
• A photograph or digital image that exists only on the Web (you will be prompted for the date of creation and publication)

For example, Mannie Garcia's photograph of Barack Obama, used by Shepard Fairey to create posters that The Associate Press alleges infringe on their copyright, is cited like this:

Garcia, Mannie. Obama Africa. 27 Apr. 2006. AP Images. AP, 17 Aug. 2006. Web. 15 Sept. 2009.

NOTES:

• The title is taken from the upper left-hand corner
• The Associated Press can be abbreviated to the acronym "AP" since it is a well-know abbreviation for this publisher (MLA 7.5)
• If you wish to include an optional URL, use the search page URL <http://apimages.ap.org/> since the image URL is long and complex.
• So that you can locate the image easily, add the Image ID (in this case 060427034297) to the Annotation field of your working bibliography but remove it before you complete your works cited list.