Other
An Exploration of Historic Prejudice: Sikh Digital Photo Album
This small collection of photos shows the Sikhs as they lived in the Kootenays in Victorian days.
George Eastman Museum
Discovering the George Eastman in Me the Legacy
There is much to gain from looking at the life of George Eastman. These guided activities will help you and your students come to know the man he was and appreciate him and many others who have impacted our world.
George Eastman Museum
George Eastman House: Discovering the George Eastman in Me [Pdf]
Help your students to reflect on the life and work of George Eastman with a personal approach. These guided activities look at the ideas of being an inventor, a businessman, and a philanthropist. They are sure to spur your students...
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Camera
Take a look at the history of cameras from the first pinhole camera in the 11th century to the modern day digital camera.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Albert Bisbee
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Albert Bisbee is described here along with information on his contributions to art as a daguerreotypist with his work, "History and Practice of Daguerreotyping."
Other
De Luikerwaal: Dutch Magic Lantern Site
This site has images of Magic Lantern projectors, a complete history, and more from Henc R.A.de Roo.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Carrie Mae Weems
Provides biographical details on the life of Carrie Mae Weems, American artist and photographer known for creating installations that combine photography, audio, and text to examine many facets of contemporary American life.
Other
The Sierra Club: Ansel Adams
The Sierra Club provides a comprehensive look at the life and work of Ansel Adams. Content includes a biography, photo gallery, excerpts of a PBS documentary, and much more!
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Art of the Stamp: Eadweard Muybridge
View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 1996 to commemorate Eadweard Muybridge, the first to create the illusion of moving pictures. With a short biographical passage.
Library of Congress
Loc: Prints and Photographs: Fenton Crimean War Photographs
Access a documentary record of Crimean War photographs produced by pioneering British photographer Robert Fenton.
Other
Teaching and Learning Through Chicago Collections: The Civil War in Art
This website allows us to explore a wide range of images and objects that depict or relate to the war between the Union and the Confederacy-the most deadly war in the history of the United States. Artists tried to depict the war using a...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Double Vision
Pablo's Picasso's La Toilette is a loving portrait of Fernande Olivier, as well as a study in opposites and a reference to the history of art. In this lesson, students will discover the many levels of content in the painting through...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
At the online home of the Art Institute of Chicago, browse the full scope and focus of the museum's collections of French impressionism, photography, architectural drawing, European decorative arts, American art, textiles, African art,...
Other
Pictures of the Year
For over 63 years POI has offered photographers to submit their images to be judged on an international level. It also provides an archive of incredible images for all to see.
Library of Congress
Loc: Photographs of the Detroit Publishing Company: 1880 1920
An online collection of historical and archival photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company that show American life, industry, agriculture, and more from this period of rapid change.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Alphabetical Listing of Photographers
ArtCyclopedia offers a list of notable photographers from the formation of the media to the present--and links to biographies and works.
George Eastman Museum
Lewis Hine: Immigration and the Progressive Era
Lewis Hine documented the conditions of life during the industrial development of America. His photographs show the impact of both child labor and immigration.
Library of Congress
Loc: The Empire That Was Russia, Photographic Record Recreated
The digital revival of the glass plate images of the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I by photographer Sergei Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorskii. Very interesting from both historical and technological points of view.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Manuel Alvarez Bravo
The Museum of Modern Art offers a nice biography and a few images of this great Mexican photographer.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Civil War@smithsonian
Access to the Smithsonian's extensive collections that document the American Civil War.
Library of Congress
Loc: American Memory: Touring Turn of the Century America
This collection contains thousands of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company and gives viewers the opportunity to explore America from the period of 1880 to 1920. Images include rural America, city life, men and women at work,...
Library of Congress
Loc: A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep
An informative three-page site on the famous image by photographer Alexander Gardner at Gettysburg. There is a detailed description of the photograph as well as a great discussion on the authenticity of the image.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Henri Cartier Bresson (1908 2004)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908=2004). With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art home page offers information and news about current happenings in the art world. It also has virtual exhibits that you can view to see many different types of art.