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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.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: The First Photograph
An account of how Joseph Nicephore Niepce was able to use pewter plates to invent the first permanent photographic image in 1827.
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.
University of Texas at Austin
U of Texas: Photojournalism and the American Presidency
The University of Texas, Austin, explores photojournalism with images of recent American presidents and their times. Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton are shown.
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.
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.
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.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Ocean Animals: Mollusks
The Missouri Botanical Garden describes the characteristics and natural history of mollusks in text and color photography.
Other
Freie Hansestadt Bremen
Information about the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven (the nearby port city), facts & figures, history, culture, economy, sights, tourism, sports, and free time activity. Lots of photos, a virtual tour of some of the sights,...
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Photojournalists
Artcyclopedia's complete list of photojournalists from the 19th and 20th centuries. There are links to the artists' biographies and works.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Selected Photographs From the Collection
A tour of nine of the collections' newer photographs from the National Gallery of Art. These are from 1936 and before from artists like Bill Brandt, Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Charles Sheeler, and more.
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...
Other
Native American Indian Art
This site provides illustrations and descriptions of Native American art and painting. Visual sampling of many Native American artists.
EL Education
El Education: Discovering the Genesee Volume 1
Discovering the Genesee was created by third grade students in Rochester, New York, as part of a Learning Expedition on local history. Student work was guided by four questions, which became the chapters of their book: Who were the...