Photography: Study Resource & Degree Program Information

Photography study involves learning the correct technique for taking pictures, along with helping students develop a pleasing aesthetic style. Successful photographers are world-renowned for their ability to capture a certain subject in perpetuity, and the photographic arts are among the most respected arts in the world.

Photography Books

Most of the photography books that students will be studying contain pictures taken by successful photographers, in order to give students a sense of what types of shading, angles, poses and atmosphere create an appealing picture. Photoeye.com has an online bookstore featuring over 1,000 photography books for the photography student.

Photography Articles And Databases

Photoeye.com also has a searchable database of not only American and foreign photography materials, but also the option to search Amazon’s photobook database, so you have a great chance of finding the photography article or book that you need from their site. For more photography database options, consult your college or university library under photography.

Photography Online Journals

There are a great many photography journals and magazines featuring photography styles and techniques from all over the world. A wonderful source for these online is Penrose Press’s International Directory of Design (Penrose-Press.com/idd/?REGION=NONE&SUBJECT=SUB10036&TYPE=journal). Here you can find links to information about a wide variety of photography journals and magazines including Photographie, Master Photographer, Aperture, American Photo, Photo and Better Photography.

Other Photography Research Tools

A tool that may prove incredibly useful in photography study is the USA Photography Guide. This comprehensive guide will provide information about photography supplies, services, festivals, galleries and much more. More information about this invaluable online resource can be found at http://www.photoeye.com/templates/survey_services_Guide1.cfm.

Photography Resources

Art History > Photography > Historic Photos

Social Sciences > History > Photos

For Microscopy see Biological Image Galleries

ALAQSA intifada.org
"Your complete and up-to-date resource about the Palestinian Intifada: News, Information, Diary, and Action Alerts."

• Photo Gallery

American Museum of Photography

• The Face of Slavery & Other African American Photographs

California Museum of Photography - (dead link)

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography

Collected Visions
"Over 2,500 images are in our searchable archive of family snapshots. 200+ photo essays exploring how photographs shape our memories..."
NYU Center for Advanced Technology

• Positive Visions
  "In observance of World AIDS Day and Day With(out) Art of December 1, 2001...Essays about people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS."

[Curtis, Edward S.] Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
A Smithsonian Institution Libraries Exhibition
"Edward S. Curtis (1748-1952) left an indelible mark on the history of photography in his 20-volume life's work, The North American Indian."
Sections include: The Curtis Family ; Working on the Frontier ; Gaining Support ; A Life's Work ; Early Books ; Suggested Readings ; Timeline ; Family Sacrifices ; Curtis' Technique ; "The Man Who Never Took Time to Play" ; Alaska.

Darko Bandic - Photography

Digital Photography Exhibit - (dead link)
"An international juried exhibit exploring new work created by artists who work with cameras and computers."

FirstGov
Official website for searching the U.S. Government

• U.S. Government Graphics and Photos

The Getty

• Photo Study Collection Database
  "...contains approximately two million photographs, primarily black and white, that document works of art and architecture. Approximately half of the photographic holdings are represented in The Photo Study Collection Database."

HIPNOTIKA
A photographic journey through Africa

International Center of Photography

• Aftermath: Photography in the Wake of September 11
• Andy Warhol Photography
  "This is the first exhibition to explore the full extent of Warhol's engagement with photography. The exhibition brings together an extraordinary range of the artistÌs photographs, films, prints, and silkscreen paintings."
• Another Vietnam : Pictures of the War from the Other Side
  "An exhibition of photographs of the Vietnam War, as seen through the lens of North Vietnamese photographers ... contains over 120 black-and-white photographs by Vietnamese soldier-photographers. Most of these images are as little known in Vietnam as they are in the United States."

Lee Miller Archive
20th Century Photography and Surrealism
"Lee Miller produced some of the most powerful photographs seen this century, from portraits of her friends such as Pablo Picasso, to her work as a correspondent with the US army in World War II. Beginning her own studio in Paris with artist Man Ray, she went on to work with Vogue, and in France, Egypt, and New York, being best remembered for her witty Surrealist images."

Lens Culture
Photography and Shared Territories
"...is an international online magazine celebrating contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures."

• AIDS in Cambodia: Buddhism, Medicine, Comfort and Sorrow
  Photos and Text by Bennett Stevens.
• Buddha Project
  "The Buddha Project encourages people worldwide to participate by submitting photos of found Buddha, sacred Buddha, ancient Buddha, kitschy Buddha, handmade Buddha."

Man Ray (English or French)
Digital Photographic Library

Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET)

• Richard Avedon: Portraits - (dead link)

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

• Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968 - (dead link)
  "...highlights the decade that Yayoi Kusama lived and worked in New York City...This Web site is composed of documentary photographs from the artist's extensive archives. Photo-documentation served a dual purpose for Kusama: not only did it allow her to preserve work that was ephemeral, but it also provided an alternate medium with which to create. The following photographs are not only historical records but also artworks themselves."

New Orleans Kid Camera Project
"...was created to address the psychological and emotional impacts of Hurricane Katrina on children returning home to New Orleans."

New York Historical Society - Exhibtions

• Beyond Ground Zero - (dead link)
  
• The Forensic Science of Disaster Recovery
  is comprised of images taken by photojournalist Richard Press at the NYC Medical Examinerís Office and Fresh Killís landfill in the months since September. The photographs document and describe the efforts of investigators and forensic experts to find and identify victims of the WTC disaster...They offer a rare view into the largest investigation in the history of forensic science while examining how a technological society copes with disaster."
• In the Light of Memory - (dead link)
  A Spherical Panorama from the South Tower, World Trade Center by Christopher Evans.
• Twin Towers Remembered - (dead link)
  The Photography of Camilo Jose Vergara
  "The exhibition includes photos from far-off neighborhoods in New Jersey and the outer boroughs, from ferry boats on New York Harbor, from ìbelowî on the plaza, and from within the Twin Towers themselves. What emerges in The Twin Towers Remembered is a comprehensive index of the myriad ways (emotionally, geographically, intellectually) that the people of greater NYC and their visitors defined themselves in relation to the cityís most prominent landmark."
• Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero - (dead link)
  "Kevin Bubriskiís photo essay Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero concentrates on the stunned visages of some of the thousands of people who made the trek to Ground Zero in the weeks following the attack. In these photos, the World Trade Center is nowhere in evidence, except in the expressions on the faces of the people now confronting the sight of its obliteration."

New York Public Library

• The Picture Collection
  "The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923."

PBS - American Experience - Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (March 2003)
Companion web site to the TV broadcast.
"...offers insights into American history topics including the closing of the wilderness, the American West, California history, Japanese American internment, the natural environment, conflicts between economic growth and conservation of the American landscape, photographs as documentary historical sources, media literacy, and the role of art."
Sections include: Transcript ; Primary Sources ; Further Reading ; Inside a View Camera ; Adams' Photo Gear ; Art or Document ; Early Hiking Footage ; Timeline ; Gallery ; People & Events ; Teacher's Guide.

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PBS - American Masters - Robert Capa (May 2003)
"Nothing tells a story like a picture - and Robert Capa's pictures are some of the most famous in the world. Capa, the preeminent documentarian of 20th century war, photographed five epic conflicts on three different continents."
Sections include: Feature Essay ; Career Timeline ; Additional Footage ; Filmmaker Interview ; For Teachers.

The Peace Gallery: Photographs by Peace Volunteers
"Since 1961, when the Peace Corps was created by President Kennedy, over 150,000 Americans have served in more than 100 countries around the world. To share the incredible depth of photos and stories from the Peace Corps experience, The Peace Gallery was created. The Peace Gallery is the online location for provocative images from past and present Peace Corps volunteers across the globe."

Pictures of the Year International
"The Pictures of the Year International competition is conducted annually to recognize excellence in photojournalism by honoring press photographers, editors and the institutions where they are employed. Winning images from POYi have challenged photographers across the globe to push themselves to see more critically. Publications noted for their outstanding use of photographs have inspired re-thinking and redesign at other media outlets."

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)

• Ansel Adams at 100
  "Welcome to this special interactive program, developed in conjunction with the exhibition Ansel Adams at 100, on view at the Museum through January 13, 2002. Focusing on seven key works, this program provides insights into the history and world of ideas behind Adams' photography.

Tom Chambers Documentary and Visual Arts
"...brings thirty years of documentary and visual arts experience to the Web with extensive curatorial work, over thirty personal, real-world (United States, England, Australia, Zimbabwe, South Korea, Philippines and Brazil) and several virtual-world exhibitions."

University of California, Riverside / california museum of photography

• Afghanistan, 1933 - (dead link)
  "Photographs of Afghanistan from the Keystone Mast collection, made in 1933."
• Journey to Mecca: Works by Max Yavno - (dead link)
  Watts, California, 1977 ; Journey to Mecca, 1979
  "...viewers may travel through the images from two different countries, cultures and decades from a variety of sites in California and Egypt. The exhibit contains a selection of Yavno's photographs from different areas of California, mainly from the late 1940s and from his trip to Cairo, Egypt in 1979...This exhibition examines relationships between the different subjects of the works, while still displaying Max's characteristic style and composition."
• Queer(ing) Warhol: Andy Warhol's (Self-) Portraits - (dead link)
• Rear View Mirror - (dead link)
  Automobile Images and American Identities

World Bank Photo Library
"offers a unique collection of 50,000 high quality images focusing on global development, some of the subjects features in the library include: agriculture, architecture, cultural heritage, fisheries, education, environment, health, schools, nutrition programs, transportation, urban development and water issues."

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