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...
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...
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.
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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Close Up
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.
BBC
Bbc: Art Sixties Photography
See images of famous and unknown faces from the 1960s. All black and white images by various photographers.
US National Archives
Portrait of Black Chicago: John H. White
From June through October 1973 and briefly during the spring of 1974, John H. White worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, especially the city`s African American community. His photographs portray the difficult...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Alfred Stieglitz at 291, Edward Steichen
From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, here is the image "Alfred Stieglitz at 291", a photographic portrait by Edward Steichen.
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National Portrait Gallery: Feature Photography: Martin Schoeller: Barack Obama
Portrait photograph of Barack Obama by Martin Schoeller.
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National Portrait Gallery: Feature Photography: Steve Pyke: Norman Mailer
Portrait photograph of Norman Mailer by Steve Pyke.
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National Portrait Gallery: Feature Photography: Steve Pyke: John Ashbery
Portrait photograph of John Ashbery by Steve Pyke.
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Portrait Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A newspaper photograph of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., taken during a 1964 press conference.
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Portrait of Langston Hughes
Author Langston Hughes poses with a sculpture, in a 1943 Office of War Information photograph taken by Gordon Parks.
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Lincoln Exhibition Image
At the Mask of Lincoln website find an impressive gallery of Lincoln portraits and portraits of Lincoln's contemporaries, all captioned with interesting historical sidebars. The famous cracked-plate portrait of Lincoln, taken shortly...
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Artists in the Collection: Richard Avedon
Browse the museum's holdings of works by Avedon, which include several iconic portraits as well as some fashion photography. Also includes a biographical note, excerpted from Grove Art Online.
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