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...

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,...

A slide show of "big head" photography by Martin Schoeller. Famous faces include American celebs like Brad Pitt and Brittany Spears mixed in with some unknown strangers.

At this site from the American Museum of Photography, you can discover photography of Southworth and Hawes, "technical and creative innovators who sought to be recognized as artists." Read about the process of creating daguerreotypes and...

This activity has instructions for making symmetrical portraits of the human face using a digital photograph. It's an activity students of all ages would enjoy.

The artwork of four nineteenth-century free blacks expressed in portraits, landscapes, sculpture, and photography. Links to works from Joshua Johnson, Robert Scott Duncanson, Edmonia Lewis, and Augustus Washington are provided.