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Amon Carter Museum: Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness
A website that includes a section designed specifically for teachers and a section specifically for students. Each section will introduce you to the wildlife photography of Eliot Porter and take you through the process of becoming a...
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Magic Lantern Castle Museum
"Home of the only museum in the world dedicated solely to the history of the Magic Lantern." See the history and images of the magic lantern projector. A great historical site!
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Photography Tips and Techniques
Great tips from a professional photographer on dozens of different topics and issues related to taking the best possible pictures. How to use a flash, how to take an interview portrait, photographing silhouettes, how to photograph glass,...
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Their Circular Life
Travel to five different locations in Italy and, through time-lapse photography, get a feel for what it would be like at that spot over a 24-hour period.
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Digicam History
DigicamHistory.com is an educational site for digital camera enthusiasts interested in the history of the digital camera. Click on different hyperlinked years to explore cameras through the 1800s up to today's digitals.
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John Shaw Photography
A beautiful site full of wildlife photographs. John Shaw is also a lecturer on the subject and a naturalist. He gives seminars on nature phtography and the business aspects of nature photography as well as leading tours around the world.
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Institute of Physics: Practical Physics: Multiflash Photography
These methods illustrate different ways to do multiflash photography, where the camera creates successive images at regular time intervals on a single frame.
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American Museum of Photography: Scott Mutter a More Perfect World
You will be stunned at these surrealist photographs. Yes, they are photographs. Scott Mutter has managed to combine two images together to create unexpected "happenings." These are his interpretations of a "more perfect world."
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Amp: Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes
At this site from the American Museum of Photography, you can discover photography of Southworth and Hawes, "technical and creative innovators who sought to be recognized as artists." Read about the process of creating daguerreotypes and...
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: In Focus: Still Life
Enter the J. Paul Getty Museum to visit the exhibition, Still Life. This exhibition takes a new look at still life by examining the genre as portrayed in photography. Many examples from the 19th, 20th, and even 21st centuries are shown,...
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Photographers of Genius at the Getty
This resource focuses on photography as an art form, and contains many different artists.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: All the Mighty World: Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852 60
Extensive information on the famous photographer, Roger Fenton. Includes images, audio explanations of his photographic techniques, and detailed biographical text.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Source: Invention: Every Picture Has a Story
Use this lesson plan to introduce students to the history of photography and to the sorts of stories that historical photographs.
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Fine Arts: Photography
This is a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activites using 36 vocabulary words pertaining to photography. It also provides an extensive list of Vocabulary Word List for Photography (274).
Vocabulary University
My vocabulary.com: Photography
This page has a variety of vocabulary puzzles and activities using 36 vocabulary words pertaining to photography. It also offers an extensive vocabulary word list for photography.
Quia
Quia: Dorothea Lange Photography
Here is a "scavenger hunt" that you can share with your class to learn about and see the work of the photographer Dorothea Lange.
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The Daguerreian Society: l.j.m. Daguerre
Originally printed in the The Illustrated London News (July 1851), this article pays tribute to Louis Lacques Mande Daguerre and his discovery, the Daguerrotype. Learn about the styles and techniques employed in some of his famous...
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Magnum Photos: Covering Conflict
A photo essay with striking photographs shot by the Magnum Group and chosen by Robin Lustig, BBC commentator, for his essay on conflict.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Photography Word Bank [Pdf]
Twenty-three words are included in this photography vocabulary word bank. Most terms are relevant to both photography and other forms of visual art.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Eadweard Muybridge's Photography of Motion
From the National Museum of American History this is a description and analysis of the photography of expatriate Englishman Eadweard Muybridge. "Freeze Frame: Muybridge's Photography of Motion" iclude's examples of Muybridge's work...
Library of Congress
Loc: Daguerreotype
Online collection presents information about the daguerreotype process along with the type of cameras used in the process.
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Graphic Greats: Photo Treatment
This resource presents an article about the use of photos in documents.
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Kk: Cool Tools: Strobist
Review of Strobist.com, a blog about photography lighting. Includes sample excerpts from the blog.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Photographs
The curator of photographs at the Getty Museum helps to explain the fine art component behind photography giving it the validity it deserves.