Khan Academy: Exploring Photographs

Test your knowledge about looking closely at photographs.

This video [1:17] is an introduction to a free online course, "Seeing Through Photographs," curator Sarah Meister speaks with artists and scholars to reveal the many different factors that inform the making of a photograph.

Curator Sarah Meister takes us through a range of documentary photographs from early in photography's history to the present day in this video. [3:20] Although we often make a direct parallel between a photograph's subject and its...

A video [17:12] of photographer Simon Norfolk discussing his series of photographs in Afghanistan in response to the works of John Burke over a hundred years earlier.

The wet collodion process was a photographic process used to produce a negative.

See how photography is more than a mechanical art, but rather an art infused with imagination, as exemplified by works from photographers Cameron, Watkins, Kasebier, Ulmann, Evans, Stieglitz, Le Gray, and Hine. [3:05]

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.

Combining text and photography, contemporary artist Eileen Cowin explores narrative within her work. [2:30]

Travel photographs, image circulation and obsolescence were on Anouk Kruithof's mind when she made 'Subconscious Travelling.' Hear Kruithof discuss the ideas behind this photographic installation, which began with her discovery of an...

A video [3:30] broadcaster and historian Dan Snow introducing a Tate Modern photography exhibition that explores the way photographs capture the lasting effects of conflicts, both in the moments after acts of violence are committed and...