Museums & Exhibitions

Museums

Virtual museum with changing online exhibitions, subjects include early daguerreotypes, carte de visite, architectural photography, and manipulated photography.  The site also includes information on early photographic processes, preservation, and links to other sites on the history of photography. 

Center for Creative Photography at University of Arizona
The CCP is an archives and research institution with a robust program of exhibitions and public lectures, and is dedicated to documenting the history of modern North American photography. It features the archives of more than 50 notable photographers, including Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, and Richard Avedon. 

The world's oldest photography museum and one of the oldest film archives. As a leader in film preservation and photograph conservation, the George Eastman House comprises a significant collection, which includes nineteenth-century French and American photography, equipment and technology; one of the most comprehensive resource libraries on photographic development, preservation and conservation; and an unparalleled masters degree program in photographic preservation and collections management. 

Harry Ransom Research Center at University of Texas, Austin
Best known for its collection of nineteenth-century photography, including the world's first photograph. The collection has expanded to encompass fine art, photojournalism, documentary photography, the history of photography, and its technology with holdings of over five million prints and negatives, books, manuscripts, journals, and ephemera of significant photographers. 

In its first 100 years, Historic New England has amassed over 500,000 photographs depicting innumerable facets of life in the region from the nineteenth century to the present. 

Home under construction, Shrewsbury, MA. 8x10" photograph, undated.
Courtesy of Historic New England.

A privately owned collection of original nineteenth and twentieth-century photographs and related artifacts that trace the technical and artistic development of photography. The site also includes links to other archives, collectors, conservation, dealers, and history.

The world's leading institution dedicated to the practice and understanding of photography and the reproduced image in all its forms. Through exhibitions, educational programs, and community outreach, ICP offers an open forum for dialogue about the role images plat in culture. 

Untitled. Laurie Simmons and
Allan McCollum. 9 3/8 x 6 1/4"
silver dye bleach print, 1985.
Courtesy of Museum of Modern Art.
As one of the earliest museums to collect photography, the MFA's collection includes daguerreotype portraits, early landscapes of the American West, turn of the century Pictorialist photographs, and European and Central European photography from between the wars. 

The museum's holding of more than 25,000 works constitute one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary photography in the world. As diverse as photography itself, the collection includes work not only by artists, but also journalists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and amateurs. 

A collection of the Daily Herald Archive, the Royal Photographic Society Collection and the Kodak Museum Collection, and incorporates both aesthetic and technical developments. Site also has a great blog and Fact Sheets on topics such as "How to Date your Victorian Photographs." 

Photographic Resource Center at Boston University
The PRC provides members and the public with a forum that supports the advancement of the photographic arts through innovative exhibitions, educational programs, and helpful resources. Also includes a current listing of exhibitions in New England

Contains information on photographers, selected photographs from the museum's collection, articles about contemporary practice, and descriptions with images of photographic processes. Includes a great bibliography for the study of photography. 
Abou Simbel, Egypt. Francis Frith. Whole-plate albumen print, 1850s-1870s.
Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum.

Online Exhibitions

British Library: Points of View
Online gallery divided into 8 themes of nineteenth-century photography. Also, watch videos demonstrating early photographic processes. 

Luminous Lint
The site serves as a knowledge base on vintage and contemporary photography, and includes over 30,000 photographs, 375 online exhibitions, biographies of more than 6,000 photographers, and information about techniques, galleries and dealers, photography timelines and other photography-related issues. 

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