CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Lksd Digital Photography
Flexbooks 2.0 are interactive, customizable, digital textbooks. Flexbooks are standards-aligned. Flexi, a student tutor, is integrated into each book to guide you on your learning journey. Flexi can assist in learning, answer questions,...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Mathew Brady's Portraits
Exhibition of photographic portraits taken by Civil War-era photographer Mathew Brady, who made portraits of many illustrious Americans on both sides of the conflict before, during, and after the war. Includes an animated explanation of...
New York Times
New York Times: Photographic Portraits of the Year's Best Actors (2004)
This portfolio of black-and-white portraits of Oscar-nominated film stars captures a range of faces, poses, moods, and points of view. Excellent site for comparing and criticizing artistic choices and approaches and for inspiring...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Zaida Ben Yusuf:
From the National Portrait Gallery this exhibit provides information about Zaida Ben Yusuf, a London born photographer who settled in the United States in 1895. At the forefront of portrait photography, Ben-Yusuf photographed people from...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Zaida Ben Yusuf: New York Portrait Photographer
Exhibit documents the life and work of early twentieth-century New York portrait photographer Zaida Ben-Yusuf, who broke with many of the conventions of portraiture and, thereby, attracted the attention of prominent artistic, literary,...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Digital Photography: Module 3: People, Places, and Things [Pdf]
In this third module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about subjects and context, portraits in photography, and studying landscapes. Includes embedded links to external resources, learning exercises, and a glossary of...
National Library of France
National Library of France: Portraits/faces
A virtual exhibit presenting a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century portraits. As you browse through the pages, click on each portrait to see larger version and related information (date, artist, dimensions, etc.). Images are...
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Andy Warhol/digital Self Portraits
Students will be introduced to the life and art of Andy Warhol as a way of considering photography as a self-portrait medium. They will create their own digitally manipulated photographic self-portrait and then write a poem to describe...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Having Fun With Landscape Photography
Students will learn about horizon lines in traditional landscapes and portraits, shadows and reflected light, and John Pfahl's Altered Landscapes. They will also create their own altered landscape photographs and portraits and write...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Great Depression: Creating Narrative Through Photography
This video [4:15] segment from the American Masters film Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning provides a documentary photographer's perspective of the severe economic despair and difficult living conditions that characterized the...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Edward Steichen Portraits
The National Portrait Gallery features an exciting collection of portraits by the former chief photographer of Conde Nast Publications which include "Vanity Fair" magazine, Edward Steichen.
Library of Congress
Loc: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten was a photographer between 1932 and 1964. Here the LOC provides his portrait photography work of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance as well as a small collection of his American landscapes.
EL Education
El Education: Photographic Self Portraits
Students learn to translate conceptual thinking into photographs by creating self portraits with digital photography.
Other
Photography Tips and Techniques
Great tips from a professional photographer on dozens of different topics and issues related to taking the best possible pictures. How to use a flash, how to take an interview portrait, photographing silhouettes, how to photograph glass,...
George Eastman Museum
African Americans: Black History Through Photography
A collection of photographs from the Eastman House collection. They include portraits of important figures who shaped American history, as well as many other African Americans, whose names are unknown.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Philippe Halsman a Retrospective
The National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution provides an online exhibit of portrait photographer Philippe Halsman who photographed famous people from Presidents to entertainers.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright Knox Art Gallery: Grid Self Portrait
This lesson plan explores how Chuck Close uses photography and a mathematical grid to create his large portraits. Hands-on activities encourage students to create using the grid, during which they will learn about variation, repetition,...
Rudiments of Wisdom
Rudiments of Wisdom: Photography
Learn about photography in a unique way. All of the fun-fact information is drawn in a cartoon style.
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Daguerreotypes by Augustus Washington
Augustus Washington, son of a former slave, learned to make daguerreotypes in 1843 to offset his college expenses, during his freshman year at Dartmouth College. Biographical notes and details about his work are provided in an annotated...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Every Picture Has a Story
Smithsonian Education presents "Every Picture Has a Story". Teachers can download this comprehensive teaching package in which students examine some of the millions of photographs in the Smithsonian. This amazing teaching package comes...
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
The Portraiture Now exhibition focuses on six contemporary portratit photographers whose work is often seen in feature publications such as the "New Yorker," "Esquire," and the "New York Times Magazine." View their work and learn what...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Doris Ulmann
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Doris Ulmann is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her portrait photography.
Other
Musee D'orsay: Portrait of Charles Baudelaire in an Armchair
A brief biography of French portrait artist Felix Nadar Charles Baudelaire (1820-1910).
University of California
Hearst Museum of Anthropology: The World in a Frame
View representative works from the early decades of photography, 1865 to 1915, during one of the world's periods of extended travel. Discover how the invention of photography opened eyes to Native American, Japanese, and Middle Eastern...
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