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Digital Photography Preview
Digital Photography Preview is a website that includes news, reviews, a timeline, a buying guide, galleries, forums, a glossary, and much more dealing with digital cameras and photography.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Repeat Photography Project
The Repeat Photography Project pairs historic images with contemporary photos thus documenting glacial decline through photography while communicating the effects of global warming.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Understanding Content Through Photography
This lesson plan is designed to assist students making self-text-world connections through multimedia presentations. This plan includes a student guide for writing the reflection scripts as well as a detailed instructional plan.
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Nez Perce Photography
A site that follows the history of the Nez Perce, from the late nineteenth century to the present, using historical photographs of Chief Joseph, battlegrounds, and the Nez Perce people.
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...
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Dorothea Lange Curriculum
An incredible Dorothea Lange resource, this site has it all. It contains lesson plans, an image bank, a biography, a timeline, and even a set of guidelines for discussing photography.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: William Henry Fox Talbot
The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides this informative page on William Henry Fox Talbot(1800-1877)and the invention of photography. With information and pictures this in a nice resource for study.
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Media History Digital Library: Technical Journals Collection (1916 1965)
A large collection of original journals that focus on the technology behind motion pictures, covering cinematography, photography, projection engineering, etc.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: 11 Times Photographers Who Share Totally Made Our Work Better
Habitat Network celebrates the amazing photography shared throughout the project by various photographers.
Scholastic
Scholastic: 100 Ways to Use Digital Cameras
This resource presents 100 different ways to use a digital camera in the classroom.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Inventors Hall of Fame: George Eastman
Read a biography of George Eastman and find out how his inventions and innovations revolutionized photography.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: James Mc Clees
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, James McClees is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his work with photography as a daguerreotypist.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Timothy H. O'sullivan
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Timothy H. O'Sullivan is described here along with information on his contributions to art through photography including landscape photography.
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National Park Service: Atlanta: National Register of Historic Places
Explore Atlanta by visiting a number of historic sites in this fascinating city. Each highlighted site features commentary on historic significance and eye catching photography. At the bottom of each page you see links to four essays...
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Su Bayfield: The Sphinx
Su Bayfield has travelled extensively in Egypt and created this informative blog to highlight Egyptian archaeological sites. Her interests lie in Egyptology and photography. This page presents information about the Great Sphinx.
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.
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...
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Magnum Photos: Covering Conflict
A photo essay with striking photographs shot by the Magnum Group and chosen by Robin Lustig, BBC commentator, for his essay on conflict.
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Cambridge University: Image Types Tutorial
This helpful tutorial on image types primarily focuses on JPEG and TIFF images and discusses compression as well as image format.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Camera Lenses
Understand how lens curvature, focal length and f-stop are related.
University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas: The First Photograph
An account of how Joseph Nicephore Niepce was able to use pewter plates to invent the first permanent photographic image in 1827.
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