21st: The Journal of Contemporary Photography - Publisher of fine art photography books. 21st features stunning hand-pulled photogravure images from many of the world's most highly respected contemporary photographers.
Aerial Archives - A large collection of stock aerial photography, provides aerial photography and image research services to a broad range of clients. Specialties include oblique aerial photography for advertising, public relations and corporate communications, infrared aerial photography, aerial photographs of cities, commercial real estate, geographic features and the environment and aerial maps and historic aerial images.
Albumen Photographs: History, Science and Preservation - Presenting the art and science of albumen printing, this site brings together 19th Century technical instruction, contemporary research, an online forum for conservation treatment and a wealth of images.
America's First Look into the Camera - The Library of Congress's daguerreotype collection consists of more than 725 photographs dating from 1839 to 1864.
AnamorFose - Belgian museum of 19th century photography, travel photography, portraits, landscapes and still lives of famous and anonymous photographers.
American Environmental Photographs - This collection consists of approximately 4,500 photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the U.S. at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century.
American Museum of Photography - Exhibitions concentrating on the first 75 years of photography, from shortly after the medium's invention in 1839 until to the development of color photography.
American Photography: A Century of Images - PBS site (and film) provides images of a century of change and the role the camera has played both in creating and documenting it. Dramatic and intimate stories trace photography's profound effect on American life - influencing what we buy, how we dress, how we get the news, and in matters of life and death, medicine, science and war.
Andrew Smith Gallery - A leading photography gallery selling nineteenth and twentieth century classical and contemporary original photographs. Click here to see links to online exhhibits.
Antarctic Photo Library - Hundreds of Antarctic photos available from the U.S. Antarctic Program Photo Library.
CalPhotos - A collection of over 315,000 photos of plants, animals, fossils, people, and landscapes from around the world.
Cambridge Gallery - The images contained in this collection were taken in and around the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the world. Although one university, it is composed of 31 separate colleges, each with its own community and architectural style.
Cuban Heritage Digital Collection - A digital gateway to sources selected from the Cuban Heritage Collection (CHC) of the Otto G. Richter Library at the University of Miami. Photographs, letters, manuscripts, and other documents.
Dear Photograph -
Photogrpahs themed around nostalgia for a vanished past. Dear Photograph started off as a nice nostalgic blog with six pictures of old family snaps lined up in their original setting. Then it went viral.
The basic concept behind Dear Photograph is not, Taylor Jones acknowledges, original.Irina Werning's Back to the Future series, sleeveface.com, and Ze Frank's Young Me, Now Me have all explored similar territory, often revealing the passage of time by replicating old photographs using the subjects as they are today. But Jones's innovation is to allow the space to seem to talk to the photograph.
See Guardian UK review.
Earth from the Air - A spectacular presentation of large-scale aerial photographs of astonishing natural landscapes. Created by photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
Eastman House - International museum of photography and film.
Flickr - Store, search, sort and share photographs.
FotoFlite - Large library of maritime aerial photographs, with over half a million photographs of ships available on line.
Fotomuseum Winterthur -
The focus of the Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection is mainly on international works and groups of works from 1960 to the present. Starting with works by Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki and William Eggleston, the collection is structured to reflect the actual development of photography. There is documentary photography - including works by Larry Clark, Peter Hujar, John Gossage, Anders Petersen, Paul Graham, Joel Sternfeld, Nan Goldin, Gilles Peress, Nicolas Faure, Richard Billingham, Joachim Brohm etc. - and conceptual photography represented by the work of Lewis Baltz, Fischli Weiss, Annette Messager, Hans Danuser, Roni Horn, Komar&Melamid, Thomas Ruff, Ann-Sofi Sidén, Christopher Williams, Tacita Dean and others.
George Eastmann House - An independent nonprofit museum and educational institution that tells the story of photography and motion pictures. Collects and preserves objects that are of significance to photography, motion pictures, and the life of George Eastman.
Getty Images - One of the industry's best and largest ndustry's best and broadest collections of imagery and footage - including award-winning news, sport and entertainment content, plus rare and contemporary archival imagery. Also see Getty Images Blog.
Gitterman Gallery (New York) - Fine examples of work by established artists. Also champions artists that have been overlooked by the history of the medium.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands Image Gallery - This gallery provides snap shots of the awesome landscape, spectacular and abundant wildlife, unexpectedly lush vegetation and cultural heritage items remaining from early human visitation of Heard Island and McDonald Islands.
Henry Ransom Center: Photography Collection - The Ransom Center has endeavored to maintain and develop its holdings in such diverse areas of photography as fine arts, technology and apparatus, photojournalism, documentary photography, the history of photography, contemporary art, and literary imagery -- in addition to the acquisition of a wide range of archival materials. These holdings currently amount to over five million prints and negatives, supplemented by manuscripts, archives and memorabilia of significant photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Also included is a study collection of some 400 pieces of original photographic apparatus, as well as a growing library of over 35,000 books and journals on the theory, technique, art and history of photography.
International Center of Photography (ICP) - A school and center for photographers and photography. ICP's exhibitions celebrate photography's diversity in many roles: as an agent of social change, a medium of aesthetic expression, a tool for scientific or historical research, and a repository for personal experience and memory.
Janus Museum - Allan Janus' photographs are in several museum collections, including the National Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and in a few private collections. By far the most important collection of Janus' work is held by the Janus Foundation of Washington Grove, Maryland, which maintains the virtual Janus Museum.
LIFE Magazine - Classic pictures and cover collection.
LIFE Photo Archive - Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" - Companion website to a 2009 exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of Robert Frank's "The Americans" (first published in France in 1958, in the U.S. in 1959).
madeinphoto.fr -
Great collection of famous photographers' photos online.
Magnum Photos - A photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. With powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events, issues and personalities. Also see Magnum Photographers.
Marian Goodman Gallery - For over thirty years, the Marian Goodman Gallery has played an important role in introducing European artists to American audiences and helping to establish a vital dialogue among artists and institutions working internationally. See Exhibitions page.
New York Public Library Photography Collection - Highlights of this historical collection include: the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, the Spalding Baseball Collection, the Pageant of America Collection, major collections of work by Berenice Abbott and Lewis Hine, and the Romana Javitz Collection which features works by Alice Austen, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Minor White.
NPAA: Best of Photojournalism - The world's leading digital photojournalism contest. Images from the judging for Photo Editing, Still Photo, Web Site, and News Video divisions of the contest are posted here.
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933 - Over 50,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. An American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
Photographs from the Plays of William Shakespeare - Collection includes approximately 400 images from publicity photographs featuring regional production companies - Cleveland's Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada and others; New York stage productions; motion pictures; and televised productions including several highly praised series (The Shakespeare Plays, Hallmark Hall of Fame, etc.). Notable actors and artists include: Judith Anderson, Peggy Ashcroft, Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Katherine Cornell, Maurice Evans, John Gielgud, Leslie Howard, Rudolf Nureyev, Laurence Olivier, Leontyne Price, Paul Robeson, and Maggie Smith.
Rose Gallery (Santa Monica, California) - Exhibitions by William Eggleston, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Dorothea Lange, Graciela Iturbide and scores of other outstanding photographers.
SF CameraWork - Through exhibitions, publications, an on-going lecture series and innovative educational programs, Camerawork provides a forum in which to address broad social and aesthetic issues using the photographic medium as its focus.
Sports Illustrated Pictures - An archive of thousands of SI current and historical sports imagery from around the globe, from auto racing to zambonis, Muhammad Ali to Fuzzy Zoeller.
Stills -
A leading Australian gallery with a focus on contemporary photography and multimedia art.
TerraServer - Aerial photographs and topological maps covering the U.S. from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
Time and Life Pictures - Collection of striking imagery, documenting past and present events in politics, culture, celebrities and the arts. The collection includes some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, such as Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Andreas Feininger, John Dominis, Nina Leen and Gjon Mili, whose photographs have adorned the pages of Time, Life and other Time Inc. publications.
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