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Albumen Photographs - http://albumen.stanford.edu/
Presents the art and science of albumen printing, contemporary research, conservation and treatment of images. |
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A History of Photography - http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/
Includes an extensive history, from earliest times to the 1920s. Includes information on all significant photographers with biographical data. |
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Arab Foundation for the Image - http://www.fai.org.lb/
A non-profit association that collaborates with Elysée Foundation in Lausanne to promote photography in the Middle East and the North Africa by locating, collecting and preserving the photographic heritage of that region. |
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Early Visual Media - http://www.visual-media.be/
History of visual Media, photography pre-cinema prestidigitation danse macabre optical illusions. |
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Photographs: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=19
Images, history, and technical information about their collection of photographs. |
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Women in Photography Archive - http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/Palmquist/index.htm
Focuses on the role of women in photography. Includes essays on women photographers and an online gallery. |
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City-Gallery.com - http://www.city-gallery.com/
Information on photography, family photographs and images, and genealogy. Focus is on 19th century photography. |
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Pinhole Photography - http://www.photo.net/photo/pinhole/pinhole
History of pinhole photography, including theory and construction details. |
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Historic Photo Archive - http://www.historicphotoarchive.com/f2/kodachrome.html
Kodachrome dating guide for vintage slides. |
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Georgian Museum of Photography - http://www.photomuseum.org.ge
Virtual museum of images from photography, including portraits, architecture, cultural and historical monuments. |
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Midley History of Photography - http://www.midley.co.uk/
Presents essays by R. Derek Wood on the history of early photography, the daguerreotype and diorama. |
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American Museum of Photography - http://www.photographymuseum.com
Covers daguerreotypes to modernism. Research center features a guide early photo processes, book reviews and information on preserving/protecting valuable photographs. |
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Photographer Nicephore Niepce - http://www.niepce.com/home-us.html
Dedicated to the History of Photography from its origins by French scientist and inventor Nicephore Niepce. Niepce discovered the process known as Heliography. |
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Cuarterolo Archive - http://archivocuarterolo.8m.com
The Cuarterolo archive is an image bank focused on 19th century Argentine and Latin American photography that houses over 5000 historic photographs. |
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The Magic Mirror of Life: An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura - http://brightbytes.com/cosite/cohome.html
Many facets of the camera obscura (dark room); the origin of the photographic camera, its place in art, culture and education,vintage instruments,images, photographs, and working camera obscuras are included. |
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Latin American Photography 1840-1920. M & M Cuarterolo's Collection - http://www.geocities.com/alloni1/home
Large selection of early images of Argentina and other Latin American countries and information on the photographers active in the region between 1840 and 1920. |
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Photo Revue - http://www.photorevue.com
All about Czech and Slovak photography, history, theory, reviews, profiles. |
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History of Photography Timeline - http://photo.net/learn/history/timeline
A detailed timeline of photography from ancient times to the present. |
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Lafayette Negative Archive - http://lafayette.150m.com/
Catalogue of vintage photographs made by the Lafayette studio of London, containing images made between 1887 and the 1930s, categorized by subject. Has explanatory articles. |
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Central Pacific Railroad - http://cprr.org/
Has a photographic history museum; also stereoviews of the first transcontinental railroad. |
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Painting and Photography - http://art-photography.netfirms.com
Some notes on the history of photography, mostly concerning the relationship between painting and photography. |
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Index of UK photographers up to c1950 - http://www.users.waitrose.com/~rodliffe/
Indexes and links for UK photographers, county by county, for the 19th and early 20th century. |
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Finding Photographers - http://www.findingphotographers.com/
A worldwide index of the books and websites that list photographers and when they worked. |
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The Weston Exposure Meter Site - http://diaxa.nfshost.com/weston/
Site dedicated to the Weston Exposure Meter from the earliest days to the Euromaster 3. Includes Photos, information and instruction books, and history of the company and its founder. |
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Cut & Paste - A History Of Photomontage - http://homepage.ntlworld.com/davepalmer/cutandpaste/
Covering the artists involved in photomontage in the Berlin Dada movement, 1980s politics, and the present day. |