General Sites

Photography Museums

Photographers

General Sites

American Photography: A Century of Images
Explore the history of American photography at this companion site to the PBS series. Features include sections on art photography, war photography, photography and social change, and photography and persuasion.
Source: PBS Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

A History of Photography
Learn more about the pioneers of photography and the processes that were used in the early days of photography.
Source: Dr. Robert Leggat Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Get the Picture: Thinking About Photography
Learn more about the techniques great photographers like Berenice Abbott, Eva Puka, and Jerome Liebling used to capture their images.
Source: Minneapolis Institute of Arts Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

Photography Museums

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Search of works by hundreds of photographers by keyword, artist name, title of work, nationality of artist, or medium. You'll also find biographical information and audio and video clips for some artists.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

George Eastman House
You'll finds a collection of thousands of photographic works from daguerreotypes to contemporary works at the Photography Collections Online section this site.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

UCR/California Museum of Photography
One of the features of this site is a database of images by Ansel Adams, you will also find online exhibitions, and works by Raoul Gradvohl, A.C. Vroman, Jean Ruiter, William Amos Haines, and Herbert Quick as well as an exhibit of works by women photographers and images of China's Forbidden City from the 1920s.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Museum of Contemporary Photography
This museum at Columbia College Chicago has a searchable database of 8,500 photographs from the 1930s to today.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

National Gallery of Art PhotographyCollection
You'll find online exhibits, essays, podcasts, and more.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

Metropolitan Museum of Art PhotographyCollection
You can view collection highlights and search an extensive database of photographs.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

Center for Creative Photography
You can view highlights from the Center's collection. Includes works by: Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Edward Weston, and Frederick Sommer.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Photographers

Berenice Abbott Changing New York: 1935-1938
This web presentation includes images from Abbott's 1935-1939 Changing New York project that she did for the WPA.
Source: New York Public Library Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Ansel Adams at 100
You can listen to Adams reflections on his works; listen to curators' comments on the images, learn about the images and the process that went into making them, and zoom in for close-up looks at the photographs. You will need both Flash and Quicktime to view the exhibit.
Source: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

The Ansel Adams Fiat Lux Online Database
This online database includes 1,761 images taken by Adams as part of a commission he received in 1963 to capture life on the campus of the University of California.
Source: University of California Riverside Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: Yes

Ansel Adams
Take an inside look at a view camera and learn how it works, learn about the history of photography, view some of Adams' works, and learn more about the artist at this companion site to the American Experience documentary.
Source: PBS Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: No

Richard Avedon: Portraits
Online exhibit features some of Avedon'smost iconic works.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Robert Capa
This site features an essay on Capa's famous Falling Soldier photograph as well as a timeline of his life and a lesson plan.
Source: PBS Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Alfred Stieglitz
This site features an interactive timeline and biographical information for this pioneering photographer who fought to have photography recognized as an art form.
Source: PBS Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Portraits by Carl Van Vechten
This collection of photographs by Carl Van Vechten were taken between 1932 and 1964 and includes portraits of artists, actors, writers, musicians and other celebrities, as well as some key figures of the Harlem Renaissance.
Source: Library of Congress Intended Audience: General Reading Level: N/A Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

John Sexton: Places of Power
Renowned black-and-white photographer began his career as an assistant to Ansel Adams. This site profiles includes biographical information and a gallery of some of his works.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle/High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Dorothea Lange
Multimedia feature including a gallery of her work, biographical information and more.
Source: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Dorothea Lange: Women Come to the Front
This site features photographs Lange took at Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
Source: Library of Congress Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: Yes Searchable: Yes

Dorothea Lange
Learn more about Lange and the power of pictures at this site for students from the Library of Congress.
Intended Audience: Students Reading Level: Elementary School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Dorothea Lange
You can view over 50 of Lange's photos and learn more about the artist at this site.
Source: Getty Museum Intended Audience: General Reading Level: Middle School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No

Edward Weston
Multimedia feature including a gallery of his work, biographical information and more.