Photography

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
The Carter houses over 45,000 exhibition-quality prints that span the history of the medium, from one of the earliest daguerreotypes made in this country to inkjet prints being made today. The collection includes landscape photography, portraits of Native Americans, and a complete set of Richard Avedon’s In the American West. It also holds several photographers’ archives, including those of Carlotta Corpron, Laura Gilpin, Eliot Porter, and Karl Struss.    

Brooklyn Museum of Art Photography Collections Brooklyn, NY
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the parent organization of the Brooklyn Museum, formed the first school of photography in the United States in 1889. Clarence White, the founder of the Photo-Secession movement, served as one of the chief instructors at that time, and annual photography exhibitions were held for over sixty years, beginning in 1891. Although no formal curatorial department of photography was established, the Brooklyn Museum began to acquire photographs out of these exhibitions in 1899.

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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Center for Creative Photography (CCP) Tucson, AZ
One of the world's finest academic art museums and study centers for the history of photography. Beginning with the archives of five living master photographers—Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer—the collection has grown to include 270 archival collections. Among these are some of the most recognizable names in 20th century North American photography: W. Eugene Smith, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand.

CCP Collections online 

George Eastman House: Photographic Collections Online 
A digital image sampler and browsing resource for the vast photography holdings of George Eastman House.

Harry Ransom Center Austin, TX
The Ransom Center's photography collection has grown to more than five million prints and negatives, ranging from the earliest photographic trials to the latest contemporary works. The collection's encyclopedic scope makes it one of the world's premier sources for the study of photography and its history.

History Miami Center for Photography
The core mission of the HistoryMiami Center for Photography is to collect, safeguard, and share the photographic images that tell the stories of our community and illuminate the Miami experience. The Center emphasizes documentary photography and serves photographers, researchers, and our diverse public. 

International Center for Photography (ICP)
ICP’s permanent collection contains more than 200,000 prints and related materials that range from the earliest forms of photography to contemporary work. It was founded by Cornell Capa in 1974 to champion “concerned photography”—socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog 
LOC Prints and Photographs online features nearly one million digital images taken from the Library's 50+ collections of prints and photographs. Included are images from the the National Child Labor Committee Collection, the U.S. News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, the Library of Congress Baseball Card Collection, and the Collection of Architecture, Design and Engineering Drawings.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs Collection New York, NY
A collection of approximately seventy-five thousand works spanning the history of photography from its invention in the 1830s to the present.

Milwakee Art Museum
Floyd and Josephine Segal Collection of Photography
Over 300 exceptional works by master photographers including Diane Arbus, Eugène Atget, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, August Sander, and Garry Winogrand.

Museum of Modern Art, NY (MOMANY)
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National Geographic Photo Galleries

New York Public Library Digital Collections
This site is a living database with new materials added every day.