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Photography & Cameras
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 20th Century American Architecture & Interior Design: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955 
 Contains "over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United States, especially the New York City area, and Florida." Subjects include "the homes of notable Americans... U.S. presidents... [and] the 1939-40 New York World's Fair." Searchable, and browsable by subject. Searchable and browsable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/gottscho/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology Last updated Oct 9, 2004 Alfred Stieglitz
Companion to a documentary (part of the PBS American Masters series) about photographer and art impresario Alfred Stieglitz, whose work influenced American art and culture in the early 20th century. Includes an essay about Stieglitz, a timeline of his career, filmmaker interview, and video clips of footage not included in the original documentary. With links to sites featuring work by Stieglitz and his artist associates. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/stieglitz_a.html Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photography, Technology Last updated Jan 2, 2009 The American Museum of Photography
Take a guided tour, browse the collection, learn about early photographic processes, visit the museum bookstore, or browse the special exhibits. The photographs are selected from museum director William Becker's private collection, which "includes five thousand individual images, from the earliest daguerreotype portraits to the work of Ansel Adams." The collection is strongest from the early days of photography (circa 1850) to World War I. http://www.photographymuseum.com/ Topics: Museums, Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Nov 25, 2006 American Photographs: The First Century
This multimedia exhibit covers the period from 1839 to 1939 and contains over 300 photographs with their history and selected links to other sites. Among the photographers are such notables as Matthew Brady, Gertrude Kasebier, and Ansel Adams. From the Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/helios/amerphotos.html Topics: Photography, Technology Last updated Oct 12, 2009 American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS)
A history of U.S. society, culture, and politics as seen through photographers' eyes. Covers art, photography and war, digital truth, presidential imagemaking, persuasion, social change, and cultural identity, with demonstrations of methods of manipulating the ideas presented in a photograph. Also features a Dorothea Lange photo shoot. Transcripts of the public television program, a bibliography, and teacher's guides are available. http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/ Topics: Activism, Photography, Society & Social Science, Technology, The United States Presidency, United States History Last updated Nov 18, 2008 America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839 - 1864
A searchable and browsable collection of hundreds of photographs taken between 1839 and 1864. The majority are portraits taken by the Mathew Brady studio. Includes photographic views of buildings and monuments in the Washington-Baltimore area, street scenes in Philadelphia, and "studio portraits by black photographers James P. Ball and Francis Grice." Includes background about the medium, a glossary, timeline, and a bibliography. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Jul 7, 2004 Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO)
A "gateway to a unique collection of wide-field astronomical photographs." Choose images by object type (stars, nebulae, galaxies, etc.) or telescope. Each image contains a description and links to related images. Includes essay on innovative photographic techniques. http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html/ Topics: Astronomy, Photograph Collections, Technology Last updated Mar 4, 2004 Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's Transportation Commission, 1894-1896
"Nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson," exploring various types of transportation throughout North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania. Also includes images of local inhabitants, streets, cities, landscapes, and members of the World's Transportation Commission. Searchable by keyword and browsable by subject and country. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/wtchome.html Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional, Technology Last updated Nov 28, 2004 Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography
This exhibit, "from stunning panoramas and majestic bridges to nuclear waste dumpsites, ... captures the compelling complexity of contemporary landscape photography." The site features nearly 100 works by numerous artists and draws from a larger collection of over 300 photographs. From the Consolidated Natural Gas Collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/helios/homeandheaven.html Topics: Oil & Gas, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Technology Last updated Oct 12, 2009 Bingham Camera Collection
Contains brief information and photographs of 15 cameras from the 1850s through the 1980s. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/collections/permanent/object_genres/devices/cameras/bingham/ Topics: Photography, Technology Last updated Jun 10, 2006 Brady-Handy Collection
This collection features images from approximately 5,000 glass negatives by photographers Mathew Brady and Levin C. Handy, "chiefly portraits of presidents, members of Congress, military and naval officers, justices of the Supreme Court, actors, artists, religious leaders, and other notables. Also includes views of Washington, D.C., and vicinity." Searchable and browsable. Includes links to related collections. From the Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/brhchtml/brhcabt.html Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photography, Technology, The United States Presidency, United States History Last updated Aug 10, 2005 Catalog of Spaceborne Imaging: A Guide to NSSDC's Planetary Image Archives
The imaging catalog contains a collection of over 500 images of the solar system bodies, including the sun, earth, moon, planets, and other astronomical objects taken by various space flight missions. The images are browsable by the individual missions, Hubble Space Telescope, and earth-based radar, providing information on the image's location, time, and imaging details. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/ Topics: Astronomy, Geography, Photograph Collections, Technology Last updated Jan 6, 2003 Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964
A collection of over 1,300 photographs, primarily portraits of celebrities, taken by this American photographer. Searchable by keyword in bibliographic record, and browsable by subject and occupation (actors and actresses, African-American leaders, artists, authors, choreographers, composers, conductors, dancers, educators, journalists, publishers, musicians, photographers, playwrights, poets, sculptors, singers, and sports figures). Includes brief biographical information on Van Vechten. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/vanvechten/ Topics: Musicians, Photograph Collections, Photography, Poetry, Technology, Writing Last updated Dec 31, 2005 The Daguerreian Society
This site includes "a brief history of the daguerreotype, an extensive daguerreian bibliography, an illustrated description of the process, a look into a daguerreian materials manufactory, many 19th and early 20th century texts, and much more." Also features image galleries, a FAQ, and related links. http://www.daguerre.org/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Jun 20, 2004 Digital Photography Review
An informative site on all aspects of digital photography. Includes reviews and side-by-side comparisons of digital cameras, a glossary of traditional and digital photography terms, a timeline of new product announcements, and galleries of sample photographs from dozens of different cameras. News articles are archived to February 1999. There are also links to message boards and other Web sites. If you own a digital camera, or are thinking of buying one, this is a wonderful resource. http://www.dpreview.com/ Topics: Photography, Technology Last updated Jan 31, 2001 Disfarmer
"In the small mountain town of Heber Springs, the Arkansas artist known as Disfarmer [born Mike Meyers] captured the lives and emotions of the people of rural America between 1939-1945" in black-and-white photographs. This site provides a brief biography, access to dozens of his photos (available for purchase), and selected photos that can be sent as email postcards. http://www.disfarmer.com Topics: Agriculture, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photography, Technology Last updated Aug 22, 2005 Don Bain's Virtual Guidebooks
"Nearly 3000 virtual reality photographic panoramas" provide 360-degree "immersive imagery" of places in the western United States (including Alaska and Hawaii), western Canada, Baja California, and the South Pacific. Features an interactive map and a geographic index. A thematic index covers topics such as bridges, gardens, ghost towns, and volcanoes. Searchable. http://www.virtualguidebooks.com/ Topics: North America, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photography, Technology, Travel Sites by Continent Last updated Oct 15, 2003 Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection
"This site provides access to 1800 of approximately 12,000 images from the Ulmann Photograph Collection." Doris Ulmann (1882-1934) "documented the rural people of the South, particularly the mountain peoples of Appalachia and the Gullahs of the Sea Islands," and also photographed intellectuals, artists, and writers. Searchable and browsable. From the University of Oregon Libraries. http://boundless.uoregon.edu/digcol/ulmann/ Topics: Agriculture, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology, U.S. History By Place Last updated Jul 17, 2007 EarthCam
Annotated guide to the live cameras on the Internet. There's a categorized directory and it's also searchable. Additionally, there are special sections for children, new Webcams, and top ten Webcams. http://www.earthcam.com/ Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Internet Guides & Search Tools, Photography, Technology Last updated Dec 15, 2002 The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
An exhibit of a photographic survey of eleven regions of the Russian Empire, taken in 1909-1912 and again in 1915 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944). It is divided into sections that include Architecture , Ethnic Diversity , Transportation , and People at Work . There is also an explanation of digichromatography, the process by which color images were made from the photographer's glass negatives. From the Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional, Technology Last updated Dec 27, 2002 Fame After Photography
This illustrated essay "lets visitors gain a perspective on how, since 1839, fame has been driven and transformed by photography." Includes related quotes from celebrities. Online companion to 1999 exhibit of the same name at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1999/fameafterphotography/ Topics: Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology Last updated Sep 14, 2009 Flickr
An "online photo management and sharing application" that allows users to "store, search, sort and share" photos. All users may search for photos with user-assigned tags. Registered users may upload photos by e-mail or from a digital camera, post photos to a blog, and add comments. Basic accounts are free. From a private company. http://www.flickr.com Topics: Photography, Technology Last updated Mar 23, 2005 The Fox Talbot Museum
William Henry Fox Talbot was a philosopher, classicist, Egyptologist, mathematician, philologist, and physicist but he is best known as the inventor of the positive/negative photographic process. This site includes a brief biography and a description of his work. There is also information about the museum at Lacock Abbey, in Wiltshire, England. http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-lacockabbeyvillage/w-lacockabbeyvillage-talbotmuseum.htm Topics: Notable People, Science, Science, Technology Last updated Aug 12, 2008 Hamburger Eyes Internet Odyssey
This site is a companion to the quarterly print publication from San Francisco that has a goal of revitalizing "the sensation of photography as a craft as well as a tool to record and document." The site provides an archive of color and black and white photos back to 2001, and excerpts from issues, which feature only black and white images. Users may comment on photos. http://www.hamburgereyes.com/ Topics: Magazines, Technology Last updated Aug 10, 2009 Heavens Above: Art and Actuality
"An online exhibit that compares the 19th-century chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part of its space program." From the New York Public Library. http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/trouvelot/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology Last updated Mar 15, 2004 A History of Photography: From Its Beginnings Till the 1920s
"In addition to pen-portraits of many of the most important photographers of the period," this site "contains information on some of the most significant processes used during the early days of photography." Includes a bibliography and a list of related museums. http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/ Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photography, Technology Last updated Dec 5, 2006 Infrared Zoo
This online gallery from the California Institute of Technology features thermal infrared photographs of dozens of animals including birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, and insects and arachnids. Also includes an illustrated essay on the differences between warm-blooded and cold-blooded animals, and an infrared hide-and-seek game. http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/ir_zoo/ Topics: Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photography, Technology, Weather Last updated Mar 20, 2004 Japanese Old Photographs of the Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
A database of thousands of hand colored Japanese photographs from 1860-1899. Search by word (any or all fields), keyword (assigned subject), location (from image map), or browse by drawer number. Results returned include a thumbnail of the images with title and photographer. Clicking on the thumbnail brings up the images themselves which include descriptive comments (lots of history here) and as much information as is available about the photographer, date, and location of the photos. From the Nagasaki University Library. http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/unive/ Topics: History By Place, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional, Technology Last updated Mar 3, 2004 Lexar: Digital Photography
Site offers tips and tutorials on buying a digital camera, how to best use digital settings, transferring images to the computer, creating professional quality slide shows, travel photography, photographing pets, and more. Also includes camera reviews and an events calendar as well as links to related websites and tutorials. Note: Site does not display well in Internet Explorer. From Lexar Media, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced digital media technologies. http://www.lexar.com/dp/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Sep 2, 2005 Lost Labor: Images of Vanished American Workers 1900-1980
A browsable "selection of 155 photographs excerpted from a collection of more than 1100 company histories, pamphlets, and technical brochures....Many of the images document factories and jobs that no longer exist." Images may be browsed by category such as textile or automotive. Presented by "a visual artist interested in images of labor." http://www.lostlabor.com/ Topics: Labor, Nonfiction by Genre, Photography, Technology, United States History Last updated Apr 16, 2003 Lucien Clergue's Signs of Gods and Goddesses
An exhibit of photographs from this French artist. Explores themes of nudes, gypsies, bullfights, and landscapes. Features brief biographical information, and a comparison of Clergue and Edward Weston. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/signs/ Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photography, Technology Last updated Jun 10, 2006 The Magic Mirror of Life: A Search for Camera Obscura Rooms
A pair of photography enthusiasts shares their passion for the camera obscura. They have posted old and modern cartoons, articles, and photographs, including photos of portable and box cameras in their collection; accounts of their visits to specific cameras (including San Francisco's Giant Camera, now on the National Register of Historic Places); and brief notes on appearances of the camera obscura in movies and literature. http://brightbytes.com/cosite/cohome.html Topics: Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Mar 5, 2002 Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Includes images of works and an essay about the photographer, "recognized as one of the foremost figures in the history of photography and one of the great Mexican artists of the twentieth century." Online companion to 1997 exhibit of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1997/alvarezbravo/ Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology Last updated Sep 29, 2009 Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery: A Virtual Tour
This site is a virtual tour of all of Matthew Brady's photographs in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, taken throughout the 1800s. Also provides his Carte de Visite Album ; the Making of a Photograph ; a Brady biography; a Technical Glossary , with explanations of a daguerreotype, ambrotype, and other aspects of photography; and an Index of Sitters , each with a short biography. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/gallery/gallery.html Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Feb 20, 2003 MicroAngela's Electron Microscope Image Gallery
This browsable site explores the world of "microspace" with whimsically annotated and colorized images. See close-up views of both familiar everyday insects and those rarely seen, diverse body cells, parasites, oceanic creatures, and much more. The images are viewed by the use of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and transmission electron microscopes (TEM). Created and maintained by a biologist at the Biological Electron Microscope Facility (BEMF), University of Hawai'i at Manoa. http://www5.pbrc.hawaii.edu/microangela/ Topics: Photography, Technology Last updated May 26, 2008 Mike Johnson Marine Natural History Photography
A collection of over 150 nature photographs taken in Southern California and northern Baja California, Mexico. Many of the photographs are underwater ones of whales, sunfish, crabs, rays, and other marine life. There are also a few underwater video clips. Students may use the images for class reports if "they properly credit the source." http://www.earthwindow.com/ Topics: Animals, Biology, Fish, Meat, & Dairy, Fish, Reptiles, & Amphibians, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photograph Collections: Regional, Technology Last updated Apr 23, 2003 Miner's Son, Miners' Photographer: The Life and Work of George Harvan
This site has a biography of this documentary photographer, interviews with him, and a gallery of his photographs (many with text and audio comments by the photographer). In addition to the coal mining photographs for which he is best known, the online exhibitions include pictures taken in New York City, occupied Japan, the Gettysburg battlefield, and the Amish countryside. From The Journal for MultiMedia History , an online publication. http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol3/harvan/ Topics: Geology, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology Last updated Dec 27, 2002 MrEclipse.com: The Ultimate Resource For Eclipse Photography
Find photographs of eclipses, information on upcoming solar and lunar eclipses, and selected links to related sites. Special features include a guide to solar and lunar eclipses for beginners, a chronology of discoveries about the sun, and information on safe viewing. A hobby site by an astrophysicist. http://www.mreclipse.com/ Topics: Astronomy, Photograph Collections, Technology Last updated Oct 26, 2004 NASA Image eXchange (NIX)
A "web-based search engine for simultaneously searching one or more of NASA's online image and photo collections. Searching is performed using keywords. ... NIX returns thumbnail sized images; textual descriptions; image numbers; and links to higher resolution images, more information, and the NASA Center that stores each image." Searches hundreds of thousands of NASA images. The Browse link will lead to NASA's choice of their best photos. The Options link will let you search within a collection. http://nix.nasa.gov/ Topics: Astronomy, Internet Guides & Search Tools, Photograph Collections, Technology, Transportation Last updated Jul 7, 2003 Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures
"The collection includes an illustrated history of World War I selected from newspaper rotogravure sections that graphically documents the people, places, and events important to the war." Includes a gallery of selected images, a timeline, essays about the war and the rotogravure process, and searchable and browsable rotogravure pages from newspapers. From the American Memory Project at the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/rotogravures/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Technology, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Nov 15, 2004 The Norwood Teague Kodak Brownie Collection
Contains a database of "U.S. Box Brownies made by Eastman Kodak Company at Rochester, New York" that includes images of each camera model and specifications. Also features advertisements, a background essay, and a bibliography. From the California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside. http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/mainFrame/collections/guides/brownies/ Topics: Photography, Technology Last updated Jun 11, 2006 NYI Photo eZine
Articles on photographic technique and artistry from the New York Institute of Photography (NYI). http://www.nyip.com/ezine/ Topics: Photography, Technology Last updated Feb 17, 2007 Olympic History
This site features images from the Olympics from 1896 through 1996. Access these historic photos using the timeline. From the Musarium. Note: Linked material on the menu is not available. http://www.musarium.com/kodak/olympics/olympichistory/ Topics: Notable People, Photograph Collections, Sports, Technology, The Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future Last updated Aug 10, 2004 Our Earth as Art
Landsat 7 is a U.S. satellite maintained by NASA. On this site "you can view our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite." The online exhibit includes images of deserts, rivers, mountains, and other geographic features. Includes a discussion of how the colors of satellite images differ from photographs. Browsable by continent. From the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA. http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/ Topics: Astronomy, Electrical Energy, Photograph Collections, Technology Last updated Jun 18, 2003 panoguide.com
"This guide aims to reveal the secrets of good panoramic photography and to help amateurs and professionals alike create the very best panoramic images not just for use on websites but also for CD or print too." Includes instructions on creating virtual tours, authoring and viewer software, a gallery of eye-pleasing examples, and a glossary. http://www.panoguide.com/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated Aug 1, 2002 Panoramic Photographs: Taking the Long View, 1851-1991
Contains "approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits." Subjects include "agricultural life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation." Includes a brief history of panoramic photography. Searchable and browsable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/ Topics: Agriculture, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photography, Technology Last updated Oct 9, 2004 PhotoHistory: History of Japanese Photography
PhotoHistory is a searchable "chronology of significant events and tidbits in the history of Japanese photography. The chronology spans from 1646 to present day." Also browsable by year. Includes brief Overview of Japan's photographic history. http://photojpn.org/HIST/hist1.html Topics: History By Place, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photography, Technology Last updated Feb 20, 2003 Plant Pathology Photos
This site "offers images captured by a succession of four Cornell University science photographers over the past 100 years. The small galleries ... span a period of great advances in plant pathology -- the study of plant diseases -- and in the photographic methods which are so central to the discipline." Includes brief biographies of the photographers. http://www.plantpath.cornell.edu/plant_pathology/sceneda49.html Topics: Gardening, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Photography, Plants, Technology Last updated Mar 29, 2007 Remembering Henri Cartier-Bresson
National Public Radio (NPR) program on photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who died in 2004. "Dubbed 'the eye of the century,' Cartier-Bresson is known for capturing historic events such as the death of Mahatma Gandhi and the liberation of Paris, in addition to moments of everyday life." Also includes a related story about the photographer, a review of a 1999 exhibit of his work at the National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D.C.), and links to related Web resources. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3816733 Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photography, Technology Last updated Oct 2, 2004 Richard Avedon
Official site for this photographer who died in October 2004. Features a chronology of his life and work, examples of his editorial and advertising work from 2004, lists of his one-man exhibits and awards, a bibliography of books by him, and excerpts from his writing and interviews. http://www.richardavedon.com Topics: Fashion, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photography, Technology Last updated Oct 5, 2004 Richard Avedon: Portraits
Companion to 2002-2003 exhibit of works by this fashion and portrait photographer. "Available online is the accompanying publication's foreword, an essay by the exhibition's curators, a special image presentation, and audio clips featuring the voices of Richard Avedon, Marian Anderson, the exhibition's curators, and others." From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId=%7B36C7411F-EEF8-11D5-9414-00902786BF44%7D Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology Last updated Oct 5, 2004 Schankman Image Server at George Eastman House
Thousands of early photographs, arranged by photographer, format (such as stereo views or magic lanterns) or subject, such as American West, car racing, or the Civil War. From the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. http://www.geh.org/ Topics: Photograph Collections: History, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Technology Last updated May 24, 2005 Science Photo Library
A searchable collection of over 100,000 photos "covering all aspects of science, health & medicine, space exploration & astronomy, technology & industry, earth science, satellite imagery [including several of the World Trade Center and Pentagon], and nature & wildlife." The weekly, archived Photo Features has news and feature stories along with photos about recent developments in science and technology. Images are small and have a prominent watermark. The full, non-watermarked image is for sale. http://www.sciencephoto.com/ Topics: Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Nature & Wildlife, Science, Technology Last updated Aug 11, 2004 Special Report: Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908-2004
Obituary and collection of articles on French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. Includes links to images and related websites on the photographer who "documented the liberation of Paris, the collapse of the Nationalist regime in China, Gandhi's funeral and the partitioning of Berlin." From the Guardian Unlimited, the online companion to the British newspaper The Guardian. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/cartierbresson/ Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photography, Technology Last updated Mar 2, 2006 Spitzer Space Telescope
News and background information about the NASA telescope, which is a "space-borne, cryogenically-cooled infrared observatory capable of studying objects ranging from our Solar System to the distant reaches of the Universe." Features history of the telescope, fast facts, information about infrared light and the technology behind the telescope, images, and updates on findings. Also available in Spanish. Searchable. http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ Topics: Astronomy, Photograph Collections, Technology, Transportation Last updated Jun 2, 2004 Stanhopes
An introduction to the Stanhope, including photographs of the equipment and the images they hold. "Stanhopes, or 'peeps', are miniature microphotographic lenses incorporated in many novelty collectables produced from the mid-19th century onwards." The information is from a collector whose book is promoted on the site. http://www.stanhopes.info/ Topics: Collectors & Collecting, Photography, Technology Last updated Jun 9, 2004 TheImage.com
Hundreds of pictures of minerals and some gemstones, mystery close-ups (guess what they are!), and explanations of digital photography and faceting from an enthusiast of "lapidary, microscopy, and the use of images." The photographs of minerals and gems are accompanied by scientific properties and miscellaneous information. http://www.theimage.com/ Topics: Geology, Photography, Technology Last updated Nov 6, 2002 Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company 1880-1920
A collection of over "25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States," originally published by the Detroit Photographic Company. Also features nearly 900 mammoth plates by photographer William Henry Jackson. Searchable, and browsable by subject and geographic location. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/detroit/ Topics: Technology Last updated Dec 27, 2002 Walker Evans Revolutionizes Documentary Photography
This is a "study of the great American photographer, Walker Evans, with comparison with other Farm Security Administration photographers, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Arnold Rothstein." http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/fsa/welcome.html Topics: Agriculture, Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: History, Photography, Technology Last updated Jan 2, 2009 William Gedney: Photographs and Writings
His most significant photographic projects include work in New York, eastern Kentucky, India, San Francisco, and his series on American composers. The database is searchable by collection and field and includes a chronology of his life and work. "Contains 4920 photographic images, 1214 images of writings and notebooks, and 274 images from photographic book projects." http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/ Topics: Notable People: Arts & Humanities, Photograph Collections: Regional, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, Photography, Technology Last updated Dec 2, 2008 Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs From the National Portrait Gallery
An online gallery of "photographs of some of twentieth century America's famous and influential women." Brief biographical portraits accompany photos of Helen Keller, Maya Lin, Dorothy Day, Julia Child, and many other women. Site also features transcripts and audio clips about biographical moments in portrait photography and photographic portraiture styles. http://www.npg.si.edu/cexh/woot/ Topics: Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photography, Technology Last updated May 5, 2004 Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
"The Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day is held each year on the last Sunday in April." The site includes a FAQ, links to history, how to make a pinhole camera from an oatmeal box, and commercial sources. Also includes a list of events and workshops, galleries of hundreds of pictures back to 2001, and information for submitting photos. Available in several languages. http://www.pinholeday.org Topics: Photograph Collections, Technology Last updated Mar 23, 2005 |
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