Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Met Museum
The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection.
MoMA Publications
The Museum of Modern Art’s publications program has been an integral part of the Museum’s mission since its founding in 1929. MoMA publications exemplify the scholarship of the Museum’s staff and associates, and serve as a valuable resource to scholars, students, and art lovers alike.
MoMA New Photography exhibitions archive
In the 1980s, as more and more institutions and galleries became as interested in photography as they were in what was beginning to be referred to as “contemporary art,” the main channel for contemporary photography at MoMA was the New Photography exhibitions, made up primarily of noncollection works.
Photographic Flux
Photographic Flux shows how closely the history, the present and the future of photographic developments are linked. Technical advances and achievements, social changes and tendencies as well as economic developments and the effects of large companies are reflected in the further development of photography and imaging media, which have been in constant and continuous change since their inception. In order to understand how new media are used and how they affect us and the world, we have to take a look at the past.
Still Searching…
The conditions governing the digital world have led to a radical diversification not only in photography but also in the theory that underpins it and the history that is written about it.
Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project has prepared a comprehensive edition of the nearly 10,000 letters to and from Talbot (1800-1877), the Wiltshire polymath best known for his invention of photography.
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
Over a span of four decades, Professor Larry Schaaf has examined more than 25,000 original Talbot negatives and prints in collections worldwide.
Camera Work
Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1913-17) is fully available online here, through the efforts of a team at the Institute of Art History of the University of Zurich. They are now refining the digital facsimile and open access-version of Camera Work, hosted at the Heidelberg University Library.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue albums
126 photographic albums represent the most impressive part of the archives that Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) bequeathed to the State between 1979 and 1986 and which are today kept at the Mediatheque of Architecture and Heritage (MAP, Charenton-le-Pont).
American Suburb X
Since 2008, an Epicenter for Art & Photography. This site includes videos, galleries, interviews, essays, and a host of other contemporary media.
Scheinbaum & Russek YouTube Channel
The videos posted on this YouTube channel support the Santa Fe-based gallerists’ History of Photography series and occasional lectures and workshops. They are posted for student viewing and are not meant for further distribution or re-posting.
Scheinbaum & Russek History of Photography Newsletters
This series and online programs, which includes written text, videos, and lectures, was started in March 2020, with the onslaught of the pandemic. As of late December 2020, this Santa Fe-based gallery team has covered 31 different subjects, including how to care for your collection. See also their YouTube channel.
Exquisite Reality: Photography and the Invention of Nationhood, 1851-1900 Exhibition
Invented and refined in the 1830s and 1840s, photography was initially hailed as an apolitical medium, a pure marriage of science and art. The French critic Francis Wey celebrated its ability to represent what he called “exquisite reality” — to depict the world exactly as it was.
RIT Image Permanence Institute Webinars
The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a university-based research center in the College of Art and Design at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) dedicated to supporting the preservation of cultural heritage collections in libraries, archives, and museums around the world.
Photographies
Photographies explores the many technologies, materials, and practices—in other words, the many “photographies”—that make up the history of photography from its origins in the late-eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.
Dear Dave, Magazine
Dear Dave, is a tri-annual publication of photography and writing, celebrating a community of visual thinking with affection and mirth, publishing idiosyncratic and original work that is deserving of further recognition. Dear Dave, is interested in the most unpredictable work of all genres and sensibilities, and from the familiar to the unknown.
Conscientious Photography Magazine
Conscientious Photography Magazine is a website dedicated to contemporary fine-art photography. It offers profiles of photographers, in-depth interviews, photobook reviews, and general articles about photography and related issues. Founder and editor Jörg M. Colberg began publishing Conscientious in 2002.
Thinking through Photographs
Thinking through Photographs was originally developed as an in-person exhibition by Liz Park, UB Art Galleries curator, and now takes the form of a downloadable resource binder of texts which consider photography’s complexities through eight different topics.
Trans Asia Photography
Trans Asia Photography is an international refereed open access journal based at the University of Toronto. It provides a venue for the interdisciplinary exploration of photography and Asia.
Manufacturing Photography, 1860-1900
This is a project to identify and map the manufacturers of materials and tools used by nineteenth-century photographers in the US and Europe, created by Katherine Mintie