The way you find information on the Internet is to search for it using one of the many available search engines.

• Google
Link: http://images.google.com


• Yahoo
Link: http://www.yahoo.com/

The number of Web sites on which photographers are discussed are not only numerous, they are ever changing. Rather than give you a list of sites to look up, here is a list of names to search for. If you search for images by these people you will discover some great sites.

• SPE
Link: 


• ATPI:
Link: http://www.atpi.org/


• Photo Imaging Education Association
Link: http://www.pieapma.org/index.htm


Link: http://piea.pmai.org/

Trade Sources

• Photo District News
Link: http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/index.jsp


• Photo Marketing Association International
Link: http://www.pmai.org/

Videos on photography and photographers are available from a number of sources including PBS, Amazon, eBay, and NetFlix. Search these sites and Google for sources and prices.

• PBS has many videos on photography. Go to the site and use their search box to search for videos on "photography" or use any other keyword.
Link: http://www.pbs.org


• NetFlix has videos on photography that you can order after signing up as a member.
Link: www.netflix.com/


• PBS American Masters series includes programs on Richard Avedon, Robert Capa, Edward Curtis, Thomas Eakins, Andre Kertesz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, W. Eugene Smith and Alfred Stieglitz.
Link: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/database_visual_arts.html


• Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film premiered on April 21, 2002 on American Experience. WGBH Boston, a flagship PBS station, is the presenting station for the program. Co-produced by Sierra Club Productions & Steeplechase Films. David Ogden Stiers.
Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/ansel/index.html


• Surf Photographers. In the 1950s and 1960s there was no California craze bigger than surfing. In the wake of it, magazines like SURFER and LONGBOARDER sprang up and no sooner, a demand for photos to fill them. A working day for Scott Aichner, one of today’s most sought-after surf photographers, means diving below twenty foot waves to surface only inches away from a speeding board. Instinct is everything — not only to grab the perfect shot but to keep from being gored by the very subjects he is photographing. EGG gets a history of surf through the eyes of the photographers who love it.
Link: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/egg/304/index.html


• American Photography a Century of Images. An exploration of the role of photography in the personal lives and public history of 20th century America. Over three hours, see an explanation of the effect and influence photographs have had on Americans- from what they believe to what they buy. The program focuses on four roles of the medium: as a recorder of public events; as a family historian; as a vehicle of artistic expression; and as a tool for influencing public opinion.
Link: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/


• The Wizard of Photography. With his introduction of the popular Kodak and Brownie camera systems, George Eastman revolutionized the photographic industry, transforming a complex, expensive technology used by a small professional elite into one that anyone could use. A brilliant innovator and entrepreneur, Eastman changed the way people viewed time and the world around them — and even themselves. Produced by James A. DeVinney.
Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/index.html


• Contacts. By asking some of the world’s greatest photographers to explain their most intriguing pieces, this fascinating series of short films offers a behind-the-scenes look at the true nature of the artistic process. Each artist provides commentary on the methods and complex layers of thought used to produce an array of prints, slides, proofs and contact sheets, transporting the viewer into a secret realm of creativity. Released in 2005 on three DVDs in English and French with English subtitles:

  Vol. 1: The Great Tradition of Photojournalism features Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Klien, Raymond Depardon, Marc Riboud, and other giants of photojournalism. France, 1988-2000, 156 mins.

  Vol. 2: The Renewal of Contemporary Photography features Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Sarah Moon, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, and other contemporary masters. France, 1992-2000, 143 mins.

  Vol. 3: Conceptual Photography features Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Roni Horn, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and other contemporary masters. France, 2001-2004, 130 mins.

• Sally Mann
Link: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/


• War Photographer DVD ~ James Nachtwey
• Man Ray - Prophet of the Avant-Garde (American Masters) DVD ~ American Masters
• Richard Avedon - Darkness and Light (American Masters) DVD ~ Richard Avedon
• National Geographic's The Photographers DVD ~ National Geographic
• The Killing Fields DVD ~ Sam Waterston
• Ansel Adams/Lewis and Clark DVD ~ Pbs
• Salvador (Special Edition) DVD ~ James Woods
• The Adventure of Photography DVD ~ Ansel Adams
• American Photography DVD ~ Harris Yulin
• The Photographer DVD ~ Reg Rogers
• Blow Up DVD ~ Vanessa Redgrave
• One Hour Photo (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Robin Williams
• Nova: Photographer's Secrets DVD ~ Nova
• Lennart Nilsson
• Wisconsin Death Trip DVD ~ Ian Holm
• Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye. Dubbed "The Father of Modern Photography," Alfred Stieglitz did much to further photography as a true art form in the early part of the 20th century. This detailed examination probes deep into the life of the artist whose attitudes forever changed the face of modern artistic expression. 85 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; timeline.
  Category: Documentary
• Half Past Autumn: The Life And Works Of Gordon Parks [DVD] (2000) Alfre Woodard narrates this extensive look at Gordon Parks, the multi-talented artist whose astounding work set an example for other aspiring black artists everywhere. From his celebrity portraits and fashion photography to his powerful films "The Learning Tree" and "Shaft," Parks expounds on his creative process and the life events that have shaped him. 91 min. Soundtrack: English. Category: Documentary Director: Craig Rice Cast: Avery Brooks, Coretta Scott King, Roger E. Mosley, Ron O'Neal, Gordon Parks, Russell Simmons, Alfre Woodard
• Helmut Newton: Frames From The Edge [DVD] (1989) The world's most chic photographer is profiled in this exciting program that features interviews with famous Newton subjects like Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling and Sigourney Weaver. Follow Newton's philosophies, visit photo shoots and see what makes him tick. 100 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
  Category: Documentary Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Rampling, Sigourney Weaver
• Strand: Under The Dark Cloth [DVD] (1989) One of the most innovative and influential of early 20th-century American photographers, Paul Strand remains an enigmatic figure. This documentary takes a fascinating look at Strand's still photography and film work, and his personal life, with interviews with friends and associates like Fred Zinnemann and Georgia O'Keeffe. 81 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; bonus short "Manhatta" (1921).
  Category: Documentary Director: John Walker Cast: Fred Zinnemann
• W. Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult[DVD] (1989) Master photojournalist W. Eugene Smith is profiled in this documentary that offers insight into his complexities and passion for social justice. Actor Peter Riegert appears as Smith in a dramatic re-creation culled from the photographer's diaries and letters. 87 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
  Category: Documentary Cast: Peter Riegert
• Annie Leibovitz[DVD] (1993) Her provocative and distinctive shots of Hollywood and pop music notables have made her one of the country's best known photographers. Now "Rolling Stone" and "Vanity Fair" regular Annie Leibovitz's work is chronicled in a revealing documentary that includes some of her most controversial work. AKA: "Annie Leibovitz: Celebrity Photographer." 51 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo.
  Category: Documentary
• Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye [DVD] (2005) A portrait as illuminating as the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, this documentary profiles the "grandfather of photojournalism" in a program including interviews with Bresson, as well as with Isabelle Huppert, Arthur Miller, and others who offer insights into the artistic and photographic processes. 72 min. Soundtrack: English.
  Category: Documentary
• Richard Avedon: Darkness And Light [DVD] (1996) His unusual and lively images have been a highlight of such magazines as Harper's Bazaar, the New Yorker and Vogue for decades. Hear from photographer Richard Avedon about his art, and see classic portraits that ranged from Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe and Ronald Reagan to everyday truckers and ranch hands, in this "American Masters" production. 87 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; interactive menus; scene access; weblinks.
  Category: Documentary Director: Helen Whitney
• Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice. Shahn used photographs in his art throughout his career, for both composition and content. He kept well-organized files of clipped news photos and from 1935 to 1938 was a staff photographer for the Farm Security Administration (FSA), also known as the Resettlement Administration. In many ways it was a dream job, giving Shahn the chance to travel through Depression-era America taking pictures that he said "cried out to be taken." He used these photographs for his paintings for years afterwards. However, using photographs for paintings was still a suspect practice during Shahn’s time, and many people felt that it diminished the value of a painting if it was "copied" in any way from a photo. Shahn and his supporters were disturbed by a 1946 article in U.S. Camera that put Shahn’s photos and paintings side by side, and he made sure to never exhibit them that way himself.


http://www.pbs.org/shahn/photography.html

Museums

• Photography Collections Online at the George Eastman House. Select any of the section headings to explore the items digitized to date.
Link: http://www.geh.org/


• Photographs in Getty Collection
Link: http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/collection_types/c2033125.html


• The American Museum of Photography
Link: http://www.photography-museum.com/


• Museum of Modern Art
Link: http://www.moma.org


• International Center of Photography. Founded in 1974, the International Center of Photography (ICP) is both a museum and one of the largest schools of photography in the world. Exhibitions, collections, publications, workshops, seminars, symposia, and certificate and degree programs are among the complementary activities that make ICP dynamic and unique among photographic institutions. ICP's mission is to present photography's vital and central place in contemporary culture, and to lead in interpretation of issues central to its development."
Link: http://www.icp.org/


• Museum of Photographic Arts. Since its founding in 1983, the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) has been devoted to collecting, conserving and exhibiting the entire spectrum of the photographic medium. The museum’s endeavors consistently address cultural, historical and social issues through its exhibitions and public programs (all of which are described in detail throughout this site).
Link: http://www.mopa.org/


• American Museum of Photography
Link: http://www.photography-museum.com/


• California Museum of Photography. UCR / California Museum of Photography is an off-campus department of the University of California, Riverside, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Located in Downtown Riverside, the museum promotes understanding of photography and related media through collection, research, exhibition, and instruction. UCR / CMP is vitally concerned with the intersection of photography, new imaging media and society. It is the museum's goal to empower the museum's visitor with an understanding of the critical role photography and related media have had in shaping both society and the daily lives of individuals. UCR/CMP provides a supportive and challenging environment that stimulates discourse about issues relevant to the lives and interests of artists, scholars and the general public.
Link: http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/


• California Historical Society frequently has on-line exhibits related to the history of the state.
Link: http://www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/


• The Center for Creative Photography. CCP is an archive, museum, and research center dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record. CCP’s vast collection includes more archives and individual works by 20th-century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation.
Link: http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/ccphome.html


• New York Public Library Photography Collection. The Photography Collection contains nearly 300,000 original photographic prints, from the medium's 150+ year history, representing an international range of photographers and comprising a thorough survey of subjects and processes. More
Link: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/photo.html


• Guggenheim Museum collection of photographs.
Link: http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/mediums.html


• The Photographer's Gallery. The Photographers’ Gallery is one of the UK's primary venues for photography and one of London’s most popular public galleries with over half a million people visiting in 2004. Established in 1971, the Gallery was the UK's first independent photographic gallery.
Link: http://www.photonet.org.uk


• The Museum of Contemporary Photography. The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) is the only museum in the Midwest with an exclusive commitment to the medium of photography. By presenting projects and exhibitions that embrace a wide range of contemporary aesthetics and technologies, the Museum strives to communicate the value and significance of photographic images as expressions of human thought, imagination, and creativity.
Link: http://www.mocp.org/


• Photo Bistro
http://www.photobistro.com/



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History of Photography

• Nicephore Niepce, A site from the home of photography inventor Nicephore Niepce. In French & English.
Link: http://www.niepce.com/


• The first CCD
Link: http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/augarten/p28.htm


• Albumen Photographs
Link: http://albumen.stanford.edu/


• A History of Photography
Link: http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/index.html


• American Photographs: The First Century presents a wide-ranging selection of photographs from this collection, including Civil War images by George Barnard and the Mathew Brady Studio, spectacular western landscapes by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson, as well as Pictorialist scenes by Clarence White and Gertrude Kasebier. A deliberate effort has been made to mix familiar and lesser-known photographers, styles of work, and a variety of processes in order to explore ideas about the influence of photographic culture in America during the years from 1839 to 1939.
Link: http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/helios/amerphotos.html


• Women in Photography
http://www.kodakgirl.com/

Individual Photographers

• Legends Online offers galleries of photos by well-known photographers.
• Ansel Adams at 100. Explore the world of ideas behind Ansel Adams's photography through archival footage of the artist at work, audio commentaries by art historians, and words from Adams himself. This interactive multimedia feature was developed in conjunction with the exhibition Ansel Adams at 100, on view at SFMOMA from August 4, 2001, through January 13, 2002.
Link: http://www.sfmoma.org/adams/


• Arthur Tress
Link: http://www.arthurtress.com/


• The Ansel Adams Gallery
Link: http://www.anseladams.com


• Jerry Uelsmann
Link: http://www.uelsmann.com/index.html


• Dave McCain - digital photography artist
Link: http://www.mckean-art.co.uk/


• Gulguvenc - digital photography artist
Link: http://www.gulguvenc.com/


• Eye See Red - art of Andonas Dragossias
Link: http://www.eyeseered.com/


• John Lund- digital artist
Link: http://www.johnlund.com/


• John Paul Caponigro
Link: http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/


• Lee Friedlander "The Artful Snapshot: What makes Lee Friedlander's pictures good? By Lee Siegel at Slate Magazine July 13, 2005.
Link: http://slate.msn.com/id/2122535/.


• About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange Curriculum explores various aspects of Dorothea Lange’s photography. The curriculum also includes background materials, a timeline, image bank, and other resources.
Link: http://www.getty.edu/education/for_teachers/curricula/dorothea_lange/


• Julia Margaret Cameron Trust. The aim of the trust is to ensure the preservation of Dimbola Lodge, and to provide historical information on Julia Margaret Cameron's life and works. We also ensure an extensive list of activities, events and exhibitions take place in and around Dimbola Lodge Museum to support the trust and to support photographers from all over the world.
Link: http://www.dimbola.co.uk/


• Bryan Peterson
Link: http://www.bryanfpeterson.com/

National Collections

• National Archives
Link: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/panoramic_photography/panoramic_home.html


• Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives," commemorates the end of the 20th century with a selection of photographs from the vast and varied holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). NARA photographs vividly capture the sweeping changes of the last one hundred years. They depict both the mundane and high political drama, society’s failings as well as its triumphs, war’s ugliness as well as its bravery. This exhibition is arranged in chronological "galleries" as well as seven "portfolios" of talented photographers well represented in NARA’s holdings.
Link: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/home.html


• Teaching With Documents: Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor
Link: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos/index.html#documents


• Smithsonian The Smithsonian’s Photographic History Project
Link: http://www.si.edu/


Link: http://www.si.edu/art_and_design/photography/


• Library of Congress American Memory has thousands and perhaps millions of photos in a searchable database and frequent on-line exhibitions.
Link: http://www.loc.gov



Commercial Collections

• Online Photography: The Journal of Fine Art Photography
Link: http://www.onlinephotography.com/


• Corbis has a huge collection of photos
Link: http://www.corbis.com


• PhotoQuotes.com has hundreds of quotes by and about photography
Link: http://www.photoquotes.com


• Color Vision Test
Link: http://www.city.ac.uk/avrc/colourtest.html


• Masters of Photography
Link: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/


• Canon Camera Museum
Link: http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/


• From 1855 until the end of the 1880s, Mathew Brady (like all photographers) used a four step process to make pictures. First, he prepared a glass plate with solutions of collodion and silver nitrate. While the plate was still wet, he placed it in the camera, exposed it, developed it, and washed it with water, making a negative. When the negative was dry, Brady placed it directly on a sheet of light-sensitive paper, exposed it to the sun. Finally the paper was developed, fixed, and washed, to produce a photograph. This animated demonstration will show you how Mathew Brady made his photographs.
Link: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brady/animate/photitle.html/


• Antique and Classic Cameras
Link: http://members.aol.com/dcolucci/


• A Brief History A Brief History of Daguerreotypy
Link: http://americanart.si.edu/


• PBS has a site on American Photography: A Century of Images"
Link: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/


• The Photo Booth Blog
Link: http://www.photobooth.net/


• The Technology of Photographic Imaging
Link: http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cameras/index.htm?contents


• Portrait of Black Chicago. From June through October 1973 and briefly during the spring of 1974, John H. White, a 28-year-old photographer with the Chicago Daily News, worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, especially the city‘s African American community. White took his photographs for the Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) DOCUMERICA project. As White reflected recently, he saw his assignment as "an opportunity to capture a slice of life, to capture history." His photographs portray the difficult circumstances faced by many of Chicago‘s African American residents in the early 1970s, but they also catch the "spirit, love, zeal, pride, and hopes of the community."

Today, John White is a staff photographer with the Chicago Sun-Times. He has won hundreds of awards, and his work has been exhibited and published widely. In 1982 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.

Link: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/portrait_of_black_chicago/introduction.html

Commercial Photographers

Syllibi

Other Resources

• Photo Analysis Worksheet
Link: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/photo.html

Misc

• Pics4Learning
Link: http://pics4learning.com/index.php

Links to Links

• The American Museum of Photography has a great list of links to other sites
Link: http://www.photography-museum.com/pri mer.html#links


• Metropolitan Museum of Art links to other photography sites.
Link: http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_online_links/er_ph.htm


• New York Public Library
Link: http://www.nypl.org/

http://webpages.pvbears.org/hslibrary/DigitalPhotography.html