Photography: Images

Over 500,000 images from public museums and collections in France.

Established by Photography Historian William M. Becker, this virtual museum documents the history of photography with over 5,000 images

Published by photo-eye, Santa Fe, a contemporary photography publisher, gallery, and auction house. The Art Photo Index lists art and documentary photographers promoted by photo-eye. The collection is large: in the spring of 2018 the API listed almost 4,000 photographers from over 90 countries with portfolios in the database. Use to view work by, and learn about, photographers working in the elegant style of Westin and Frank.

Search the CCP's online collection of over 100,000 photographs by artist, technique, etc. CCP is one of the nation's top museum's and research collections for American Photography.

Search the collections of the oldest film and photography museum. Their 250,000 digitized photographs can be searched by creator, date, title, etc.

With 5 million photographs, the HRC has one of the largest photography collections in the USA . Search their digitized photographs by creator, title, date, etc.

The ICP collects socially and politically minded photography "that can educate and change the world."

1.2 million digitized photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings, representing most of the Divisions collection of 14 million items. Documents the history of the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

Select "Photography Collections" to search the Smithsonian Institute's museum's and archives rich photographic holdings

Collection of photography by Cushman, an amateur photographer, who took 14,500+ Kodachrome color slides from 1938 to 1969, extensively documenting the United States & other countries.

Use for images of Japanese life and culture from pre-historic Jomon artifacts to contemporary documents. Over 1 million items from museums, libraries, etc. can be searched with a rich selection of options including Era, Subject, Person/ Organization, Object Type, and Date.

A collection of two million photographs taken in Germany from the mid 19th C. to the present. Includes the holdings of Deutsche Fotothek and 90 other institutions. In addition to photographs the collection also contains reproductions of paintings, graphics, historic maps, and architectural and machine drawings.

The largest collection of historic photograph, approximately 7,000, taken all over Japan from the Bakumatsu (1853) through the Meiji periods (1912).

Use for black and white images of US industry in the early 20th c. Contains 2,200+ photographs of the steel works in the corporate town of Gary, Indiana, primarily from 1906-1920

High quality images of the fine arts (painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing), photography, architecture and new media including Film, Audio, Video, Performance Art and Digital Art

170,000 photographs. Customize your search by photographer, date, and place. Subjects in 3-tier classification (designed by Paul Vanderbilt in 1942).