Photography / Art Image Databases
The 50 States Project
50 photographers from across the USA. Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and represents the State where they currently live. Every two months each photographer will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response.
http://www.50statesproject.net/
Afterimage Gallery
http://www.afterimagegallery.com/
A Gallery for Fine Art Photography
New Orleans, LA, gallery of photographs
http://www.agallery.com/Pages/departments/photographers.html
The American Museum of Photography
Online museum of photography specializing in online exhibitions of daguerreotypes and early photographic works.
http://www.photographymuseum.com/
American Photography: A Century of Images
Companion site to the PBS video series. With sections on Art, Photography and War, Digital Truth, Presidential Images, Persuasion, Social Change, and Cultural Identity.
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/
Aperture Foundation
Artcyclopedia
Fine Art Search Engine for artists, art movements, and art museums.
The Art History Archive at the Lilith Gallery of Toronto
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/
The Online Photography Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/search/citi/category%3A12
Art of the Photogravure
Resource dedicated to the photogravure.
artnet’s Artist Works Catalogue
Resource of updated artists’ monographs.
http://www.artnet.com/AWC_Catalogue/ArtistWorksIndex.aspx
Artsy
An online platform for discovering and collecting art. Artsy provides a large collection of contemporary art, and (powered by The Art Genome Project) pathways for discovering works and artists.
Asia Art Archive
Comprehensive collections of contemporary Asian art.
http://www.aaa.org.hk/home.aspx
The Athenaeum
Database of over 40,000 artworks. Open site that allows users to upload images.
The Center for Creative Photography Collections at the University of Arizona Libraries
http://www.creativephotography.org/collections/
The Center for Creative Photography Digital Collections
Collections of Photographs available on the University of Arizona Insitutional Repository
Curt Teich Postcard Archive
Most extensive postcard collection in America. Wauconda, IL.
http://www.lcfpd.org/teich_archives/
Dia Art Foundation Artists’ Web Projects
http://www.diaart.org/artist_web_projects
Flickr’s The Commons
Photographs from the world’s public photography archives. Site contains images and a list of participating institutions.
George Eastman House Photography Collections Online
J. Paul Getty Museum Collection
Guggenheim Museum Collection
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/
History of Photography Biographies, University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science
Biographies of scientists, inventors, photographers and artists who made significant contributions to the early history of photography.
http://www.slis.uiowa.edu/~bferrier/computingproject/PhotographerBiographies.html
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Collection
http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/permanent-collection/artists/
International Center of Photography (ICP)
Homepage of the ICP with exhibitions, online collections, and lecture series
The Permanent Collection at the International Center of Photography (ICP)
Home page of the ICP collections, with major archives of such photographers as Robert Capa and Weegee, and topical archives such as AIDS Graphics, and the September 11 Archive.
I Photo Central
Resources for photography collectors, curators and historians.
http://www.iphotocentral.com/photographer/photographer.php
Kinetica Musuem of Kinetic Art, London, UK
Exhibitions, workshops, performances for kinetic art.
http://www.kinetica-museum.org/
Lascaux Cave
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/?lng=en#/fr/00.xml
Robert Leggat’s History of Photography site
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
Len Culture: Photography and shared territories
An online magazine celebrating international contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures. Site has an image database and audio/video interviews with photographers.
The Library of Congress, Washington DC, Online Collection of Prints & Photographs
LIFE
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Collections
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/
Luminous Lint
Resources of photobooks and photographers for collectors of fine art photography.
http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/home/
Museum Forma, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan
http://www.formafoto.it/_com/asp/page.asp?g=h&s=e&l=ing
Photographers of Magnum Photos
Masters of Photography
Archive of articles, images and resources for canonical photographers.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Collection Database
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
Moving Image Source
Website devoted to the history of film, television, and digital media.
http://www.movingimagesource.us/
The Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Collection (Columbia College, Chicago)
http://collections.mocp.org/main.php?module=objects
Cameras: The Technology of Photographic Imaging Exhibition and Database at The Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cameras/index.htm?contents
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Collections
Museum of the Moving Image
http://www.movingimage.us/site/site.php
The National Gallery of Art Collections, Washington
http://www.nga.gov/collection/index.shtm
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Images from the History of Medicine
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/all
The National Media Museum Collections, Bradford, UK
http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/Collections/home.asp
The National Portrait Gallery Collections, London, UK
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/about/photographs-collection.php
Detroit Publishing Company Postcards from the Leonard Lauder Postcard Collection at the New York Public Library
Thousands of postcards, ca. 1898-1920s, featuring images of North American landscapes and cityscapes, including views of well-known streets, buildings, historic monuments, natural scenery, industry, transportation, and daily life.
Schomburg Center, Images of 19th Century African Americans at the New York Public Library
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/
Oeil Public
Oeil Public, now disbanded photojournalism collective. Site has archive of photographers’ work.
Photography section of Seeing is Believing: 700 Years of Scientific and Medical Illustrations Exhibition at the New York Public Library
http://seeing.nypl.org/MAIN.html
Photography-now
A collection of photographers’ works.
Photography now
An agency for Photography and Video Art.
http://www.photography-now.com/
The Photography Post’s Museum of Online Photography Collections
Contains links for such collections as: the U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Photo Collections, images from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and Double Exposure’s glacier photographs.
http://thephotographypost.com/museum
Photomuse
Resource for photohistory.
Polanoid.net
Polaroid picture collection.
Profotos
Profotos.com’s education site has a masters of photography section
http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Collections
http://www.sfmoma.org/pages/collection
The Science and Society Picture Library (SSPL)
Over a million images from the Science Museum, the National Media Museum, the National Railway Museum, and other collections.
Smithsonian Images
Archive of over 2.5 million contemporary and historic images from national museums. Prints may be used for research or purchased.
http://smithsonianimages.si.edu/siphoto/siphoto.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=home
The Smithsonian American Art Museum Photography Collection
Includdes works by the New York Photo League, Man Ray, and by African American and Latino artists. Collection also includes American daguerreotypes, the first century of American photographs, and contemporary American landscape photography.
http://americanart.si.edu/helios/features.html
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) Image Gallery
http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sirisimagegallery.htm
Street Shots on WNYC
Stories about six photographers who document New York City life.
http://www.wnyc.org/streetshots/
Tate Collection: British art and international modern and contemporary art
http://www.tate.org.uk/collection/
Tiny Vices
Online gallery and image archive founded by Tim Barber in 2005.
Turbulence
Turbulence commissions, exhibits and archives new hybrid networked art forms.
UbuWeb: Film & Video
A collection of contemporary and historical avant-garde film and video and documentaries about artists.
Web Gallery of Art
A database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850).
The Whitney Museum of American Art Online Collection
Includes works by such artists as Doug Aitken, Larry Clark, Roni Horn, Peter Hujar, Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson, and Katy Grannan.