This category encompasses physical collections or archives of photography which are held by private individuals and public institutions, and which contribute to the knowledge of the history and practice of photography as a fine art....
This page was last updated on November 17th, 2008
This page was last updated on November 17th, 2008
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Shetland Museum Photographic Archive
A large collection of photographs dating from the early 1870's onwards, covering all areas of the islands and making a comprehensive and priceless record of Shetland life.
The Getty Museum: Photographs
A vast collection representing the history and practice of photography and searchable by process type.
Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona
Manuscripts, photographic materials, photographs, negatives, albums, work prints, audiovisual materials, contact sheets, correspondence, memorabilia and other unique artifacts relevant to the history of twentieth-century photography.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
The LOC prints and photographs collections number more than 13.7 million images. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and ac
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Includes selections from the Helmer Backstrom collection and the Gernsheim Collection, focusing on older processes. Especially strong representation of Swedish photography.
Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne
The collection of the Museum (including the Elysée Foundation collection). This section presents the most important portfolios.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Photography collection of the NGA includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs by European and American photographers. Information page plus tour of collection.
Cleveland Museum of Art: Photography Collection
A virtual tour of the photography collection. Although a very large number of prints may be viewed, no search tool is currently available.
European Photographs Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Includes works by Jean-Eugene Auguste Atget, August Sander, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert McPherson and Gustave Le Gray, among many others. Searchable by artist and title.
Museum of the City of New York: Photographs from the Office of War Information
For public consumption abroad, the Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information (OWI) presented the positive side of New York City life during the War. Photographs from the collection showing landmarks to visit, neighborhoods in which people worked an
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present. The collection is largely European and American, with some representation of other parts of the world, particularly Japa
Photomuse: A Joint Project of the George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography
The Photomuse collection provides a large sample of photographs from the photographic archives of the International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House.
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
The Photography Collection includes photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. Searchable by photographer.
Peabody Essex Museum
The photography collection comprises more than a half million rare and vintage images representing nearly every kind of photographic format and process, and featuring nineteenth-century photographs of Asia, maritime images, early American photographic por
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center: Photography
Begun in 1963 with Ransom's purchase of the Gernsheim Collection, the Center's Photography Collections encompass the history of photography. In addition to the world's first photograph, the Collections feature significant holdings of numerous notable earl
National Archives of Canada: Photography
The National Archives has acquired over twenty-two million photographs illustrating Canadian reality, and certain aspects of the world in general. The search tool allows to consult almost 400,000 descriptions of photographs, as well as to have access to s
Minneapolis Institute of Arts Photography Collection
The Institute’s collection of photographs spans the history of the medium as fine art, from the 1860s to the present, but focuses primarily 20th-century American, photographers.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The collection illustrates the evolution of early-20th-century photographic styles, beginning with photographs that imitate romantic painting styles. The MFAH´s collection is strongest in the new approaches to photography that emerged in the second half
The Keystone-Mast Collection
The Keystone-Mast Collection at the California Museum of Photography represents the archive of the Keystone View Company of Meadville, PA. Offers an encyclopedic view of world history and cultural diversity.
Light Work Collection
Light Work's permanent collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence program and past Light Work Grant recipients, primarily emerging and under-represented artists. Searchable by artist.
Erwin E. Smith Collection
Guide to the Smith collection at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, including biography and photographs. Includes teaching resources.
Shetland Museum Photographic ArchiveA large collection of photographs dating from the early 1870's onwards, covering all areas of the islands and making a comprehensive and priceless record of Shetland life.
A vast collection representing the history and practice of photography and searchable by process type.
Manuscripts, photographic materials, photographs, negatives, albums, work prints, audiovisual materials, contact sheets, correspondence, memorabilia and other unique artifacts relevant to the history of twentieth-century photography.
The LOC prints and photographs collections number more than 13.7 million images. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and ac
Includes selections from the Helmer Backstrom collection and the Gernsheim Collection, focusing on older processes. Especially strong representation of Swedish photography.
The collection of the Museum (including the Elysée Foundation collection). This section presents the most important portfolios.
The Photography collection of the NGA includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs by European and American photographers. Information page plus tour of collection.
A virtual tour of the photography collection. Although a very large number of prints may be viewed, no search tool is currently available.
Includes works by Jean-Eugene Auguste Atget, August Sander, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert McPherson and Gustave Le Gray, among many others. Searchable by artist and title.
For public consumption abroad, the Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information (OWI) presented the positive side of New York City life during the War. Photographs from the collection showing landmarks to visit, neighborhoods in which people worked an
The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present. The collection is largely European and American, with some representation of other parts of the world, particularly Japa
The Photomuse collection provides a large sample of photographs from the photographic archives of the International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House.
The Photography Collection includes photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day. Searchable by photographer.
The photography collection comprises more than a half million rare and vintage images representing nearly every kind of photographic format and process, and featuring nineteenth-century photographs of Asia, maritime images, early American photographic por
Begun in 1963 with Ransom's purchase of the Gernsheim Collection, the Center's Photography Collections encompass the history of photography. In addition to the world's first photograph, the Collections feature significant holdings of numerous notable earl
The National Archives has acquired over twenty-two million photographs illustrating Canadian reality, and certain aspects of the world in general. The search tool allows to consult almost 400,000 descriptions of photographs, as well as to have access to s
The Institute’s collection of photographs spans the history of the medium as fine art, from the 1860s to the present, but focuses primarily 20th-century American, photographers.
The collection illustrates the evolution of early-20th-century photographic styles, beginning with photographs that imitate romantic painting styles. The MFAH´s collection is strongest in the new approaches to photography that emerged in the second half
The Keystone-Mast CollectionThe Keystone-Mast Collection at the California Museum of Photography represents the archive of the Keystone View Company of Meadville, PA. Offers an encyclopedic view of world history and cultural diversity.
Light Work's permanent collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated in the Artist-in-Residence program and past Light Work Grant recipients, primarily emerging and under-represented artists. Searchable by artist.
Guide to the Smith collection at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, including biography and photographs. Includes teaching resources.
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