Online Photo Collections
AP Images
Artstor M A digital library of over a million images in art, architecture, the humanities and social sciences with tools to view, organize, present and save your own images sets. Great resource to share with your Art History study group!
American Memory, Library of Congress. More than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical Library of Congress collections. The primary source and archival materials relating in the project cover topics from art and architecture to performing arts to technology and applied sciences.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Life Magazine Photo Archive hosted by Google
George Eastman House Photography Collections Online
National Geographic : History Of Photography - features a timeline, Photo Gallery and more.
NYPL Digital Gallery Provides access to over 640,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.
Smithsonian Photography Initiative
Time Life Images content from the finest photojournalists, documenting past and present political and cultural events, as well as celebrities and the American experience.
Web resources on Photography
American Museum of Photography. 5,000 images from daguerreotype portraits to Ansel Adams
American Photography: a century of images A well-maintained PBS site with with interactive features.
Art History Resources on the Web: Photography
California Museum of Photography
History of Photography: from its beginnings to the 1920s by the form education officer of the Royal Photographic Society
PhotoForum List's List of Photo Web sites fairly comprehensive list of resources from RIT, includes links to academic programs, workshops, etc.
Photograph the bi-monthly USA guide to photo-based art with listings of exhibitions, private dealers, resources, and websites. There are also columns, a calendar of events, and illustrated advertising from galleries, museums, dealers, auctions houses and photographers.
Shutterbug the website for this print magazine inlcudes online content such as product reviews, technical tips and photo galleries
Voice of the Shuttle: Photography page
Web resources on Photographers
Daguerreotypes Portraits and Views 1839-1864: America's First Look Into the Camera Daguerreotypes produced by Mathew Brady's studio are a major portion of this LOC collection.
Mathew Brady's Portraits: Images as History, Photography as Art "A comprehensive look at Brady's remarkable career"; 1845-1896. (National Portrait Gallery)
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Tête à Tête An artist and photojournalist, he is "best known as the photographer who first captured the 'decisive moment' on film in the 1930s." National Portrait Gallery
Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective "Philippe Halsman photographed for Life magazine from the 1940s through the 1970s, achieving a body of work that includes [more covers] than any other photographer." (National Portrait Gallery)
Hans Namuth: Portraits "The first full exploration of Namuth's life and work, and the first time the Portrait Gallery's collection of his photographs has been on view in its entirety." (National Portrait Gallery)
CHIM: The Photographs of David Seymour (International Center of Photography)
Carl Van Vechten: Creative Americans Nearly 1,400 portraits of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance. (Library of Congress)
Augustus Washington: A Durable Memento "Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist. One of only a handful of African American daguerreotypists whose work has been identified and collected, and whose career has been documented." (National Portrait Gallery)
Weegee's World "Weegee's work is best known for his tabloid news photographs of urban crowds, crime scenes, and New York City night life": this archive contains over 13,000 original prints and corresponding negatives, tear sheets, manuscript drafts, correspondence, clippings, and other personal memorabilia. (International Center of Photography)
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