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AMERICA'S FIRST LOOK INTO CAMERA: DAGUERREOTYPE PORTRAITS
AND VIEWS, 1839-1864
A searchable and browsable collection of hundreds of photographs taken between 1839 and 1864.
The majority are portraits taken by the Mathew Brady studio. Includes photographic views of buildings and monuments
in the Washington-Baltimore area, street scenes in Philadelphia, and "studio portraits by black photographers James P.
Ball and Francis Grice." Includes background about the medium, a glossary, timeline, and a bibliography.
From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.
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THE DAGUERREIAN SOCIETY
Official site of the Daguerreian Society with over 900 individual and institutional
members offers a gallery of historical and contemporary
daguerreotypes. The resources page includes 19th and 20th
century texts, history of the daguerreian process, links,
news, and events.
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CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY (CCP)
Devoted to photography as an art form, this site presents changing exhibitions and archives and individual
works by 20th-century North American photographers.
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DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW
Includes reviews and side-by-side comparisons of digital cameras, a glossary of traditional and digital photography terms,
a timeline of new product announcements, and galleries of sample photographs from dozens of different cameras. News
articles are archived to February 1999. There are also links to message boards and other Web sites.
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MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Find links to articles, photographs and resources on more than 50 well-known photographers.
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AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY: A CENTURY OF IMAGES (PBS)
A history of U.S. society, culture, and politics as seen
through photographers' eyes. Sections on art, photography
and war, digital truth, presidential imagemaking, persuasion, social
change, and cultural identity and the impact of photographs. Demonstrations
of methods of manipulating ideas presented in a photograph. Includes
a Dorothea Lange photo shoot, many of her photographs, and six different
images the Migrant
Mother .
Transcripts of the public television program, a bibliography,
and teacher's guides are available.
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HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM ITS BEGINNINGS TILL THE
1920s
An extensive, annotated, and hyper-linked virtually published manuscript. Contains biographical
information on more than 100 important photographers and significant processes, styles,
and movements of the first eighty years of photography. By Dr. Robert Leggat of the Royal Photographic Society.
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AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS: THE FIRST CENTURY
This multimedia exhibit covers the period from 1839 to 1939 and contains over
300 photographs with their history and selected links to other sites.
Among the photographers are such notables as Matthew Brady, Gertrude Kasebier, and Ansel Adams. From the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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SHORT COURSES IN DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
A guide with how-to sections on the use and explanation of digital cameras and photography;
compare different types and features; use a table comparing traditional cameras with digital ones; how to digitize or
scan existing photographs; computer storage; graphic file formats;
what is needed for the digital "darkroom"; photo-editing software; printers; printing on the Web; and much more.
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AMERICAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
"It's all about the world of color" and its physiological and psychological effects. "This site explores how color affects appetite, vision, sexuality, energy conservation, and its relationship to architecture and interior design ."
Does pink make strong men weak? Can colors create accidents? What colors are predominant in different cultures?
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HEAVENS ABOVE: ART AND ACTUALITY
"An online exhibit that compares the 19th-century
chromolithographs of astronomical observations made by artist/astronomer
Etienne Trouvelot with comparable images photographed by NASA as part
of its space program." From the New York Public Library.
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WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG: A PHOTOGRAPHIC RETROSPECTIVE
OF CHILDHOOD
Dozens of photographs, from the nineteenth century to today, that "capture the experience of childhood as it is connected across time,
different cultures, and diverse socioeconomic backgrounds." From the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
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CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
This museum "promotes an understanding of photography
and related media through collection, research, exhibition,
and instruction." The
site includes news; program information; online companions
to exhibits; and images of photographs, stereographs,
and cameras from the museum's collections. Searchable.
A department of the University of California, Riverside.
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FAME AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY
This illustrated essay "lets visitors gain a perspective on how, since 1839, fame has been driven and transformed by photography."
Includes related quotes from celebrities. Online companion to 1999 exhibit of the same name at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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WALKER EVANS REVOLUTIONIZENS DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
This is a "study of the great American photographer,
Walker Evans, with comparison with other Farm Security Administration photographers, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Arnold Rothstein."
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WOMEN OF OUR TIME: TWENTIETH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM
THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
An online gallery of "photographs of some of twentieth century America's famous and influential women."
Site features transcripts and audio clips about biographical moments in portrait photography and photographic portraiture styles.
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MATHEW BRADY'S NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY: A VIRTUAL
TOUR
A virtual tour of all of Matthew Brady's photographs in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery,
taken throughout the 1800s. Also provides his Carte de Visite Album ; the Making of a Photograph ; a Brady biography;
a Technical Glossary ,
with explanations of a daguerreotype, ambrotype, and other aspects of photography; and an Index of Sitters , each with a short biography.
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