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American
Photographers: Biographies of 42 photographers working in the
United States between 1840 and 1980. There are also brief articles
about Pictorialism, Documentary Photography, The Camera Club, Camera
Work Magazine, Photo-Succession Group, Group f/64, Photo League, Surrealism,
Farm Security Administration, Standard Oil Project, Photojournalism,
Family of Man Exhibition, Life Magazine and Photomontage.
American
Museum of Photography: An outstanding website for anyone interested
in photography. Current exhibitions include: The Face of Slavery,
Ghosts & Ectoplasm Captured by the Camera, Scot Mutter: A More
Perfect World, The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, The Outlandish
World of William H. Martin, Masterworks of Photography, At Ease (early
American portrait daguerreotypes), An Eye for the World (photographs
of Shotaro Shimomura) and Of Bricks and Light (architectural photographs
1845-1915).
Through
the Lens of Time: This website allows you to search or browse
nearly 300 images of African Americans dating from the nineteenth
and early twentieth century from the Cook Collection of Photographs.
These digitally scanned images are of prints taken by George S. Cook
(1819-1902) and Huestes P. Cook (1868-1951). The Through the Lens
of Time website is a joint project between VCU Libraries and the Valentine
Richmond History Center.
Pencils
of Light: The Edinburgh Calotype Club, the first photographic
club in the world, was formed in the early 1840s after a group of
Edinburgh gentlemen were introduced to the calotype process by Sir
David Brewster, the Principal of the United Colleges of St. Salvator
and St. Leonard at St. Andrews and a close friend and associate of
William Henry Fox Talbot, who had discovered the process in 1840.
The National Library
of Scotland has now put over 200 of these rare images produced by
this group on its website.
Brighton
Photographers 1841-1910: This website includes a comprehensive
Directory of Photographic Studios which operated in Brighton and Hove
during the period 1841 to 1910. Over 380 photographic studios are
listed alphabetically and alongside the name of each studio is given
the years of activity. The Directory of Photographic Studios will
help owners of photographs taken in Brighton or Hove in Victorian
and Edwardian times to date family photographs and hopefully as a
result make it easier to identify the people portrayed. Another feature
of the website is a History of Photography in Brighton, which traces
the development of photography in Brighton from 1841 to 1910. Beginning
with William Constable's Photographic Institution, which opened in
Brighton in November 1841, this history recounts the story of photography
in a large Sussex town, while outlining the major developments in
photography in general explaining along the way photographic processes
and formats such as the daguerreotype, the talbotype, collodion 'wet
plate' photography, the albumen print, stereoscopic photography, the
carte-de-visite, cabinet portraits, gelatin 'dry plates', roll film
and the birth of the snapshot. Technical terms are explained in detail
in a separate glossary and biographies are provided on the most important
and influential photographers in Victorian and Edwardian Brighton.
Farm
Security Administration-Office: The images in the Farm Security
Administration-Office of War Information Collection are among the
most famous documentary photographs ever produced. Created by a group
of U.S. government photographers, the images show Americans in every
part of the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural
life and the negative impact of the Great Depression, farm mechanization,
and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers turned their
attention to the mobilization effort for World War II. The core of
the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white photographs.
This American Memory website provides access to over 160,000 of these
images.
Photo-Seminars:
A website for image makers and those who teach image making. It offers
free seminars on several photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Edward Weston, Eugene Atget, Matthew Brady, Robert Capa, Imogen Cunningham,
W. Eugene Smith, Irving Penn, Lisette Model and Margaret Bourke-White.
There are also sixteen workshops on subjects such as Photojournalism
and Travel Photography.
Carte-de-Visite
Photographs: From
1859 onwards there were millions of small studio portrait photographs
produced all over the world in a format known as Carte-de-visite.
In the UK they were discontinued from about 1905. They were the first
cheap, mass produced form of having an image of yourself, family and
friends or even famous people! The were placed in albums made for
them and now turn up in sales and are very collectable. They show
how the Victorians looked in their Sunday best! This website, created
by Roger Vaughan, contains a large section of these photographs.
History
of Photography: This website is not designed to be a course on
the history of photography such as a resource to explore. In addition
to pen-portraits of many of the most important photographers, it contains
information on some of the most significant processes used during
the early days of photography. This
work is intended to be of general interest, but it may also be a useful
starting-off point for students preparing for courses which include
a brief study of the history of photography.
Masters
of Photography: A collection of articles on the world's leading
photographers. This includes Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Alvin L.
Coburn, Imogen Cunningham, Walker Evans, Arthur
Fellig, Lewis
Hine, Dorothea
Lange, Jacob Riis, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz,
Paul Strand, Timothy O'Sullivan, Edward Weston and Clarence White.
Women
Photographers: A website produced by the California Museum of
Photography that includes images by some of the best-known names in
the history of the medium as well as significant or exemplary images
by other less famous photographers. There are illustrated articles
on Frances Johnson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Gertrude Kasebier, Alice
Boughton, Berenice Abbott, Marion Palfi, Alma Lavenson, Imogen Cunningham,
Susan Meisalas, Barbara Morgan, Mary Ellen Mark, Rosalind Solomon
and Olivia Parker.
Augustus
Washington is one of the few African American daguerreotypists
whose work has been identified and whose career has been documented.
The son of a former slave, Washington was born in Trenton, New Jersey.
As a youth, he embraced the abolitionist movement and struggled to
obtain an education, studying at both the Oneida Institute and Kimball
Union Academy before entering Dartmouth College in 1843. Washington
learned to make daguerreotypes during his freshman year to offset
his college expenses. In 1846 he opened one of Hartford's first daguerrean
galleries. Washington attracted a broad clientele, and by the early
1850s was regarded as one of the city's foremost daguerreotypists.
Convinced that emancipation alone would not remove the barriers that
American society imposed upon its black citizens, he came to regard
resettlement in the West African nation of Liberia as the best course
of action. Accompanied by his wife and two small children, Washington
sailed for Africa in November 1853. Once in Liberia, Washington opened
a daguerrean studio and prospered. This National Portrait Gallery
online exhibition provides a detailed account of his life and work.
Picture
History: Old photographs hold a special mystery. Being able to
study scenes and faces from the past and to know how something or
somebody looked so long ago makes you feel almost as if you had been
there yourself or known that person in some fleeting way, as if you
could smell the air or hear the voices, feel the wind, the press of
a hand. Picture History is an on-line archive of images and film footage
illuminating more than 200 years of American history. Included in
its holdings is the acclaimed Meserve-Kunhardt Collection of 19th
century photography as well as thousands of images that have been
researched and acquired by Kunhardt Productions for use in historical
documentaries over the past fifteen years. Picture History is intended
for the personal use of students, educators, scholars, and the general
public curious about the past. High resolution images and film footage
are available for professional and personal licensing.
Lewis
Hine: In 1908 the National Child Labour Committee employed Lewis
Hine as their staff investigator and photographer. Hine
travelled the country taking pictures of children working in factories.
In one 12 month period he covered over 12,000 miles. Factory owners
often refused Hine permission to take photographs and accused him
of muckraking. To gain access Hine sometimes posed as a fire inspector.
Hine worked for the National Child Labour Committee for eight years.
Hine told one audience: "Perhaps you are weary of child labour
pictures. Well, so are the rest of us, but we propose to make you
and the whole country so sick and tired of the whole business that
when the time for action comes, child labour pictures will be records
of the past." This History Place website provides a large collection
of these photographs that helped to bring an end to child labour in
America.
Vietnam
War Interactive Portfolio: This website contains over 80 photographs
taken in Vietnam between 1969 and 1970, while E. Kenneth Hoffman was
stationed there as a military photographer. Categories include Children,
Montagnard Tribesmen, Military, Vietnamese people, Protest & et
cetera, and Shrines. Using HyperNews software, visitors have the opportunity
to contribute their own comments about the images or the war. Or,
they can react to the comments left by others. Over 5000 comments
have been recorded since the site was created in April of 1996.
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