LibGuides: Photography: Websites

Image Resources for Photography

Artsy
Artsy features almost 200,000 high-quality contemporary art images from several major galleries, museum collections, foundations, artist estates, and art fairs.
Boston Public Library Flickr Photostream
Thousands of digitized historical photographs from the BPL's archives.
Getty Images
Stock photography for creative and editorial uses.
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Search the Library of Congress' comprehensive collection of historic prints and photographs.
The Lively Morgue
A closer look at historic photographs from the New York Times archives.
MoMA's Object:Photo
This site features 341 photographs by 148 artists working in the 1920s and 30s, "a transformative period of modern photography and the foundation of our photo-based world." Includes high-quality images and scholarly essays, as well as a mapping feature that allows the user to visualize connections between artists, locations, movements, and styles.

Photography Internet Resources

Artcyclopedia: Photographers
A chronological list of major environmental and site-specific artists. Browse or use ctrl+F or command+F (mac) to search.
International Center of Photography Lecture Series
The ICP Lecture Series began in 1974 to provide a forum for distinguished photographers to present their work, ideas, and techniques to an audience with a deep interest in photography.
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Guide
Outlines best practices for preserving digital image files.
MoMA's Object:Photo
This site features 341 photographs by 148 artists working in the 1920s and 30s, "a transformative period of modern photography and the foundation of our photo-based world." Includes high-quality images and scholarly essays, as well as a mapping feature that allows the user to visualize connections between artists, locations, movements, and styles.
Timeline of Color Photography by Jennifer Uhrhane
From the Boston University Photographic Resource Center, a timeline overview of the history of color photography.

Resource guides and bibliographies

Use these sites to find comprehensive lists of resources for exploring photographic techniques, history, and scholarship.

Photography publications

Local Photography Resources in Boston and Beyond

Boston Public Library Print Department
Harvard Art Museums
Explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums, including the Fogg (western art from the Middle Ages through the present), the Busch-Reisinger (German/Austrian art from the 7th century through the present, with a focus on Secession, Expressionism and Bauhaus), and the Arthur M. Sackler (ancient, Asian, Islamic and later Indian art).
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Photographic Resource Center
Located on the Boston University campus, the PRC is a non-profit organization that hosts exhibits, lectures, and special events related to photography.

Catalogues Raisonnés

Catalogues raisonnés present a definitive overview of an artist's body of work; all known works that exist at the time of publication are included. You can use the following sites to find catalogues on a particular artist, and then search the Tufts Classic Catalog to see whether a title is owned by a Tufts library.

International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) Catalogues Raisonnés database
Search or browse by artist's name to discover their catalogues raisonnés. Also includes catalogues that are pre-publication.
The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists
This database contains entries for catalogues raisonné on European and American prints, print publishers, drawings, and photographs; and Japanese prints and photographs.