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Photography Workshops: Henri Cartier Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson's biography and some of his photographs, including "Behind the Gare St.Lazare".
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: Biographies: Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
Learn about the father of photography, his efforts and research that took him to this point. (In Spanish)
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Weston Gallery: Artist: Ansel Adams
A selection of Ansel Adams's photographs from the Weston Gallery are displayed online.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: George Eastman
Read a biography of George Eastman and find out how his inventions and innovations revolutionized photography.
Other
Photonhead: Photographic Concepts and Tips
Photonhead is complete with a beginners guide to photography (covering the camera itself, camera modes, film speeds, and more), a digital camera buying guide, photography tips, a SimCam, and information on photo editing.
Other
Photonhead: Film and Digital Camera Simulator
Learn about three major camera characteristics not only by reading about them but practicing using them online.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Walker Evans
This article explores the early life and work of Walker Evans. Images, related articles, and web links are included.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Invention of the Week: George Eastman
A biography of George Eastman, who revolutionized photography with his innovations in film and photograph development. From the MIT School of Engineering.
Other
Web Reference: Rough It Up: Production Graphics
An article about using abstract shapes and positions of images to create interesting effects. Includes a tutorial.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Daguerre, Paris Boulevard
The haunting empty, yet evocative, image of "Paris Boulevard" by Louis-Jacques Mande Daguerre shows both how far photography had come in a short time and how much farther the technology still had to advance. Read about the techniques he...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Camera Lenses
Understand how lens curvature, focal length and f-stop are related.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Key Points
Brief information and extended thinking questions about using photographs to document conflict and capture its effects.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Andy Warhol/digital Self Portraits
Students will be introduced to the life and art of Andy Warhol as a way of considering photography as a self-portrait medium. They will create their own digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait and then write a poem to describe...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Daguerreotypes and Salted Paper Prints Quiz
Test your knowledge about daguerreotypes and salted paper prints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Daguerreotypes and Salted Paper Prints
Learn about the photography style of daguerreotypes and salted paper prints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Exploring Photographs
Learn the apprecation and analysis of photography as an art form.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Exploring Photographs Quiz
Test your knowledge about looking closely at photographs.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Photography and Railroads
From the 1850s, photography and the railroad each offered new experiences to people who had never before traveled great distances. Photographs were used to allay fears of potential travelers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Understanding the Wet Collodion Process
The wet collodion process was a photographic process used to produce a negative.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Wet Collodion Process Quiz
Test your knowledge of the wet collodion process.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Early Photography: Niepce, Talbot and Muybridge
Photography is a controversial fine art medium, simply because it is difficult to classify-is it an art or a science? Nineteenth-century photographers struggled with this distinction, trying to reconcile aesthetics with improvements in...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Stieglitz, the Steerage
The photograph "The Steerage" by Alfred Stieglitz would become one of the most important in the history of photography. View the picture and read the story behind the photograph.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Costumbrismo
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, explorers and travelers (mainly of European descent) in Latin America, popularized a genre called costumbrismo: the depiction of local folklore, including social "types" and genre scenes....