Photography

Alphabetical listing of Photographers with links to oral interviews, papers, correspondence, images, recordings and more.

the Art Institute's photography collection contains works of many of the medium's celebrated practitioners, including collection the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, the Julien Levy Collection, with more than 200 photographs by Edward Weston, and the work of Paul Strand, Eugéne Atget, and André Kertész.

Thematic essays on Photography

With over 25,000 works, this is one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary photography in the world and includes work not only by artists, but also by journalists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and amateurs.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was one of the earliest museums in the country to collect photography, and the collection include daguerreotype portraits, landscapes of the American West; Pictorialist photographs; European and Central European photography from between the wars, and archival collections of celebrity portraits by Yousuf Karsh and Herb Ritts and mountain photographs by Bradford Washburn

An authoritative source to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe from distinguished cultural and scientific institutions.

Interface in English and French (and other major, European languages). Majority of the content in French.
France's fantastic digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Digitized periodicals, images, recordings, and more. Covers two millenia with particular strength from 1500 to the present.
Open Access.

Search several picture and film archives collections, including the Hulton Picture Archive, National Geographic, Time Life, Bridgeman Art Library.

Contains catalog records and digital images of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress.

Thousands of historic photographs arranged in 13 searchable groups or sets covering various topics, such as Jazz, Baseball, World War I, Abraham Lincoln, Women, the 1930's and 40's.

Search for digital copies of the photographs, movies, data, drawings, maps and other documents from the National Archives.

"Pictures from Time and Life magazines document past and present political and cultural events, as well as celebrities and the American experience."

The World Bank has a distinctive collection of over 12,000 images that illustrate development through topics such as Agriculture, Education, Environment, Health, Trade and more

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.

The photography collection at the GEM is among the oldest and best in the world. It comprises more than 400,000 photographic objects dating from the introduction of the medium in 1839 through to the present day. It encompasses works made in all major photographic processes, from daguerreotype to digital.

mptvimages includes some 1 million celebrity and entertainment related images taken by more than 60 photographers from around the world.

Provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains over 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery