Manipulating Photographs: Can You Trust Photographs?

Explore how photographs can represent a whole story to a viewer. Middle schoolers work on narrative writing techniques in this lesson plan, focusing on photographs from the New York Times to write first-person descriptive narratives....

This is the official Mary Ellen Mark website. It has photographs and a biography. Also includes a list of her books of photography, an online gallery, and information about her exhibitions, workshops, and lectures.

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.

This video [4:15] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning provides a documentary photographer's perspective of the severe economic despair and difficult living conditions that characterized the...

A discussion of Bourke-White's images that focused on her photographs of industry in America. Includes links, images and audio interviews of Bourke-White experts.

The companion site to the PBS series, this site chronicles the growth of photography, both in our private lives and in the public world of news and journalism. The site includes narrative from the series as well as images and teaching...

The National Press Photographers Association serves to promote photographic journalism. Members come from both still and electronic photographers, as well as editors, students and other associated organizations. Photographs play a major...

Students choose a historical or present-day event to portray through photographs. They narrate this event with photographs and text to communicate its significance in history or our current daily lives.

Students explore news photography skills. In this photojournalism lesson, students examine photographs from newspapers and magazines and discuss the attributes of quality photographs. Students complete a webquest at the Kodak website and...

High schoolers gain an idea of how a photographer prepares and shoots a photo story. They explore how to use Pagemaker and lay out a story for the newspaper. They see the powerful effect that photography can have on news stories.