LibGuides: Art: Photography

Photography Sources

Center for Creative Photography Located at the University of Arizona Libraries, the Center for Creative Photography is a research institution with a robust program of exhibitions and public lectures. It is the largest institution in the world devoted to documenting the history of North American photography and includes archives of over 200 photographers, scholars, galleries, and organizations, comprised of 4.5 million items, complemented by an unparalleled collection of over 90,000 fine prints.
Daguerreotypes from the Library of Congress There are approximately 700 daguerreotypes in the LOC's Prints & Photographs Division. The majority of the images are portraits, but the collection does include a few early architectural views, outdoor scenes, and copies of works of art.
George Eastman House Photography Collection The photography collection includes more than 400,000 photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. The collection embraces numerous landmark processes, objects of great rarity, and monuments of art history that trace the evolution of the medium as a technology, as a means of scientific and historical documentation, and as one of the most potent and accessible means of personal expression of the modern era.
Getty Images Getty Images allows you to search archival picture and film collections, including the Hulton Picture Archive, National Geographic, Time Life, Bridgeman Art Library.
Harry Ransom Center Digital Collections The Harry Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum. Its extensive holdings provide a unique record of the creative process of writers and artists, deepening our understanding of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts.
Library of Congress American Memory Project The American Memory Project provides access to multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collections The Met has digitized much of its collections and makes extensive images freely available on the web.
MFA Images Search or browse more than 160,000 images from the collection of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
Museum of Contemporary Photography Founded by Columbia College Chicago in 1976, the museum collaborates with artists, photographers, communities, and institutions locally, nationally, and internationally. As the leading photography museum in the Midwest, presenting projects and exhibitions and acquiring works that embrace a wide range of contemporary aesthetics and technologies, the museum offers students, educators, research specialists, and general audiences an intimate and comprehensive visual study center.
Museum of Modern Art Online Collection Browse over 1,000 digitized works of art in MoMA's collection. Also searchable by artist, work or keyword.
National Gallery of Art Online Collections The National Gallery of Art's digital collection can be searched for a specific artist, title, or both.
New York Public Library Digital Collections NYPL Digital Collections provide free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
New York Public Library Picture Collection The NYPL Picture Collection Online presents more than 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
Shared Shelf Commons Shared Shelf Commons is a free, open-access library of images from libraries, archives, and museums around the world. Search and browse collections with tools to zoom, print, export, and share images.
Shorpy Historical Photo Archive Most of the photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs, 20 to 200 megabytes in size) from the Library of Congress research archive. Includes thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to the 1950s.
Texas Digital Archive The Texas State Archives’ Prints and Photographs collection includes over 750,000 original images in a variety of processes and formats. The majority of the Prints and Photographs collections relate to Texas history and important Texas figures or events.
Wikimedia Commons All of the images you'll find here have clear information about permission for use. Many are in the public domain.

American Museum of Photography Virtual museum that includes a research center, images and more.
Griffin Museum of Photography Located in Winchester, MA, the Griffin Museum of Photography is a nonprofit organization dedicated solely to the art of photography.
International Center of Photography The International Center of Photography is a museum and school dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of photography.
Museum of Contemporary Photography Founded by Columbia College Chicago in 1976, the museum collaborates with artists, photographers, communities, and institutions locally, nationally, and internationally. As the leading photography museum in the Midwest, presenting projects and exhibitions and acquiring works that embrace a wide range of contemporary aesthetics and technologies, the museum offers students, educators, research specialists, and general audiences an intimate and comprehensive visual study center.
National Archives The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the nation's record keeper. and preserves documents and materials, including photographs, created in the course of business conducted by the federal government.
National Geographic Photography and Photos of the Day Includes animals, nature and weather, people, travel and much more.
Southeast Museum of Photography The museum opened in 1992 and is one of 13 facilities in the US dedicated exclusively to photography, and one of only a handful of such institutions nationally, that share a scope, reach and depth of collection and activities in this specific field.
Women in Photography Women in Photography is an innovative website founded by artists Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips and features the work of international female artists.

Blind Spot Blind Spot creates unique opportunities for living artists to present significant new photographic work by providing unmediated platforms where their vision can be expressed without compromise, free of commercial content or editorialization.
British Journal of Photography Includes news, reviews, images and more.
International Journal of the Image The International Journal of the Image interrogates the nature of the image and functions of image-making. This cross-disciplinary journal brings together researchers, theoreticians, practitioners and teachers from a wide array of areas of interest.
Nature Photographer Magazine Photography techniques, nature photography articles, outdoor photography.

One of the best ways to discover the perfect source for your topic is to browse the library stacks by call number range. Each call number range represents a particular subject and all of the books on a particular topic will be located in the same general area on the shelves. So if you want a book on darkroom techniques, go to the call number range beginning with TR287 to see what we have!

LC Call Number	Subject
TR 1-1050	Photography
TR 250-265	Cameras
TR 287-500	Photographic processing. Darkroom techniques
TR 510-545	Color photography
TR 550-581	Studio and laboratory
TR 590-620	Lighting
TR 624-835	Applied photography. Including artistic, commercial, medical photography, photocopying processes

Organizations & Additional Background Photography Sources

There are a lot of great resources on the web where you can find information about Photography as well as collections of images. Hover your mouse over the links to find out what they contain. Have fun exploring!

87 Great Photography Blogs and Feeds Links to a wide variety of blogs and feeds talking about photography.
American Photography: A Century of Images A PBS program, American Photography captures the images of a century of change and the role the camera has played both in creating and documenting it.
Aperture Foundation Aperture is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to promoting photography.
photo.net Photography community, including forums, reviews and galleries.
Timeline of Historical Film Colors Comprehensive resource for the investigation of film color technology and aesthetics, analysis, and restoration. Includes detailed information on over 230 individual film color processes.

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Organizations & Additional Background Photography Sources

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