PHOTO 1—History of Photography
Chaffey College
Instructor: Sarah Bay Gachot


JUMP TO LINK SECTIONS
> Photography Museums and Centers (worldwide)
> Museums (in Southern California)
> Photography Blogs/Magazines
> Art Blogs - General
> Museum/Library Photography Collections
> Some Galleries That Show Photography
> Significant Photography Exhibitions
> Significant Photography Symposia/Events/Fairs
> Recent Articles (non-photo-centric blogs) about Photography/Photographers
> Thematic Photography Collections
> Other useful imagery things
> On Researching
> Further Reading
> Other FYI
> Art Book Publishers
> FILMS about Photography
> Chaffey Links


Photography Museums and Centers (worldwide)

Annenberg Space for Photography
Baxter Street NYC
Blue Sky Gallery, Portland
California Museum of Photograpy, Riverside
Camera (Italy)
Center for Creative Photography, Tuscon
Centrul de Fotografie Contemporana
C/O Berlin
Eastman Museum, Rochester New York
Finnish Museum of Photography
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Griffin Museum of Photography, Massachusetts
Hasselblad Foundation
Houston Center for Photography
International Center for Photography, New York
International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, St. Louis
Lieven Gevaert Centre, Belgium
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Newspace Center for Photography, Portland
Ryerson Image Center
The Photographer's Gallery, UK
Photographic Resource Center, Boston
Presentation House, Vancouver
Transformer Station, Cleveland
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Museums (in Southern California)

Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art
Riverside Art Museum
Riverside Metropolitan Museum
UCR ArtsBlock, Riverside
Pomona College Museum of Art
Pasadena Museum of Califoria Art
The Norton Simon Foundation
The Huntington
LA MOCA
LACMA
The Hammer Museum
The J. Paul Getty
Orange County Museum of Art
Palm Springs Art Museum
Museum of Latin American Art
Wende Museum
Long Beach Museum of Art
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
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Photography Blogs/Magazines

1000 Words Magazine
Ahorn Magazine
American Suburb X
Aperture Magazine
But Does it Float (photography category)
Blindspot
Camera Austria
Conscientious Photo Magazine
Der Greif
dotphotozine
Foam Magazine
FOTO8
F Stop Magazine
The Great Leap Sideways
Lenscratch
LensCulture
Les Sources d'une Ile (blog)
National Media Museum blog on Photography
New Yorker Photo Booth
NPR Photo Blog
NY Times Lens Blog
Objektiv Magazine
The PhotoBook Review
The Photo Review
Photo-Eye
Prefix Photo
Seesaw Magazine
Still Searching
The Telegraph 'Telephoto' Blog
This Long Century
Time & Space
Visual Culture Blog
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Art Blogs - General

Art F City
artnet news
ARTnews
Blouin Artinfo
Colossal
Contemporary Art Review LA
Culture Monster - LA Times
Daily Serving
e-flux
Hyperallergic
LA Weekly Arts
Momus
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Museum/Library Photography Collections

Amon Carter Museum
The Art Institute of Chicago
Berlin Museum of Modern Art
Biblioteca Nacional de Espana
Center for Creative Photography
Cleveland Art Museum
Europeana Online Collection
Fotomuseum Winterthur
The George Eastman House
The George Eastman House Flickr Collections
The Getty Museum
Harry Ransom Center
A History of Russia - enormous photo archive
International Center for Photography
LACMA Photographs
Library Company of Philadelphia
The Library of Congress
Los Angeles Public Library photo collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Contemporary Photography
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Museum of London
Museum of the City of New York
National Archives
National Archives, Kew, UK
National Media Museum
National Portrait Gallery
NY MoMA
New York Public Library
Online Archive of California, University of California
Philadelphia Museum of Art Collections
Royal Library of Denmark
SFMOMA
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian Photography Collection
Valentine Richmond History Center
Van Abbemuseum
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Walker Art Museum
Whitney Museum
Yale's Beineke Collection, Rare Books & Manuscripts
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Some Galleries That Show Photography

M+B Contemporary Art Photography
M+B Photography
Francois Ghebaly Gallery
Flax Fahrenheit
Night Gallery
Cherry and Martin
Jancar Gallery
LAXART
Marc Selwyn
Marc Foxx
Regen Projects
Rose Gallery
Redling Fine Art
Steven Kasher Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery
Fahey/Klein
The Photographers Gallery, LA
Peter Fetterman Gallery
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Aperture, New York
Galerie Johannes Faber
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Gasket Gallery
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Significant Photography Exhibitions

State of Light: 100 years of photo and abstract art
Slides: The History of Projected Photography
Photographs Become Pictures: the Becher Class
The Uses of Photography: Art, Politics, and the Reinvention of a Medium, MCASD La Jolla, 2016
Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World - The Morgan Library and Museum, 2016
Ordinary Pictures - Walker, Minneapolis, 2016
Performing for the Camera - Tate, UK, 2016
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS: THE 1980S PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM - Centre Pompidou, 2016
Ocean of Image - MoMA NY, 2016
RealSurreal:Masterpieces of Avant-Garde Photography
Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840 - 1860, Tate Britain
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Unfinished Stories, and exhibition on snapshot photography
Picture Paradise Asia-Pacific photography 1840s - 1940s
Cornell's exhibit on the 1st 50 years of Photography
Photography Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Significant Photography Symposia/Events/Fairs

PGH Photo Fair (Pittsburgh
Portland Photo Month
Photo Archives Symposium - The Getty 2016
Photography Performing Humor, 2016 conference, Brussels
photo basel
Photo London
Hamdan International Photography Award, Dubai
Paris Photo
Houston FotoFest
Medium Festival of Photography
Photo L.A.
PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORIANS: A NEW GENERATION? Ryerson Image Centre Symposium
SFMOMA 2010 Symposium: Is Photography Over?
Dusseldorf Photoweekend
The Photography Show
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Recent Articles (non-photo-centric blogs) about Photography/Photographers (new section; to be added to)

In 1900, Photographing an Entire Train Required the World’s Biggest Camera
10 Images That Changed the Course of Photography
The impact of photography amidst the extinction of the mass media
8 Surrealist Photographers you should know
"Single trapped atom captures Science Photography Competition's top prize"
"How Taking a Photograph Can Land You a Visit from the FBI"
"How images help us understand war" Hyperallergic
This Agoraphobic Photographer Uses Google Street View to Travel the World
The Story Behind the Photograph That Made Ansel Adams Famous
In 1970s San Diego, These Groundbreaking Artists Pushed the Boundaries of Photography
VIDEO: Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age at the Tate Modern
Humble Arts Foundation: What does it mean to photograph someone from behind?
Blouin Artinfo articles about photography
Artnet News articles about photography
Hyperallergic articles about photography
Huffington Post articles on Photography
Hold Still: A History of Performing for the Camera - Momus
A 1st Major U.S. Exhibition on Cyanotypes - Hyperallergic
Aerial photos online - Hyperallergic
The Bronx Zoo's glass plate archive - Hyperallergic
A misunderstood photograph - Atlas Obscura
On Frontier Photography - Mousse Magazine
V&A as largest photography collection - Hyperallergic
National Parks Search for Official Photographer - NPR
Gordon Parks - Hyperallergic
Rediscovered Glass Plate Photographs Show the Skies 120 Years Ago - Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic on Louis Draper
Hyperallergic on Ruth Gruber
Cyanotypes, Photography's Blue Period
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Thematic Photography Collections

Hulton Archive on Getty Images
Nucius
Vernacular photographs/MoMA
Mashable's Retronaut
Henri Cartier-Bresson/MoMA
Photography on a Silver Plate - Daguerreotypes
WWI in Photos (The Atlantic)
Smithsonian archive
Roger Fenton and the Crimean War
Keystone-Mast Stereoview Collection at UCR
Life Magazine on Google
Asia and the Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs
Cabinet Card Portraits in the Collection of Radical Publisher Benjamin R. Tucker
Civil War Medical Care: Photographs from the United States Sanitary Commission Collection, 1861-1872
Dance in Photographs and Prints
Early Landscape Photography of the American West
Metropolis: New York City Water and Transit Infrastructure in Photographs
Modern Photographs 1909-1949/MoMA
Ocean Flowers: Anna Atkins's Cyanotypes of British Algae
"The Pageant of America" Photograph Archive
Women Working
Russia and Eastern Europe in Rare Photographs, 1860- 1945
Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s
Nathaniel L. Stebbins, Maritime Photographer, Photographic Collection
Museum of the City of New York
World's Transportation Commission
Civil War Photographs
Farm Security Administration/Office of War Info
The Great Depression Photographs blog
Edward S. Curtis, Native American photographs
Panoramic Photographs
Shorpy, multiple collections
Vivian Meier collection
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Other useful visual culture things

What Galleries Do
Videos on Artists, Louisianna Museum
Photographic Processes: The Getty
National Archives
Photobook and Zine Links courtesy Little Brown Mushroom (Alec Soth)
Endangered Archives Programme, The British Museum
Sociological Images
Met Museum: The Artists Project
Color Goes Electric
Jeff Curto: History of Photography website
Iconic Images Blog
George Eastman House Notes on Photographs
Getty YouTube playlist on Photography
Getty YouTube playlist on Photographic processes
Digital Public Library of America
A video on making film from the silver of the Owens Valley
Smithsonian Archives blog: tagged Photography History
Artbabble videos on Photography
Another timeline, by the Smithsonian Institution
MoMA Learning: Photography
Magnum Photos
Photography Criticism Cyber Archive
The Redlist: Photography
National Media Museum: History of Photography in 40 Images
State Library & Archives of Florida: Daguerreotype to Digital
Image Permanence Institute
Photography Now
British Library Catalogue of Photo Books
Luminous Lint
Photo Tree articles and research
CNN's list of important photograohs
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For Researching

Chaffey Library
Photographers Identities Catalog
Research Paper - Info on Citations
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
Calisphere: your gateway to California's remarkable digital collections
Getty Union List of Artist Names
Archive Grid
WorldCat
JSTOR
Heilbrunn Thematic Essays on Photography
MoMA glossary of art terms
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Further Reading

Photography is Magic, by Charlotte Cotton
The Photographer's Playbook, eds. Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern
The Photograph as Contemporary Art, by Charlotte Cotton
Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes
A World History of Photography, by Naomi Rosenblum
How to Write About Contemporary Art, by Gilda Williams
Ways of Seeing, by John Berger
Photography: A Critical Introduction, ed. Liz Wells
Art and Photography, by David Campany
Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes
On Photography, by Susan Sontag
"The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility," by Walter Benjamin
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Other FYI

Definitions of Print Processes
Google's Deep Dream project
Old Royalty Free Film Footage
Video Data Bank
E-flux video channel
The Art Book Review
ForYourArt
Curate LA
Triple Canopy
East of Borneo
Ubu
Notes on Looking
Human Resources
Ooga Booga
Public Fiction
LACA
Velaslavasay Panorama
Machine Project
SASSAS
Unusual Museums
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Art Book Publishers/Distributors

Aperture Books
Roma Publications
2nd Cannons
The Ice Plant
Kodoji Press
Mack
Morel Books
Image Text Ithaca
Peperoni Books
Edition Patrick Frey
DoPE Press
RVB
Steidl
Dalpine (independent photobooks)
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FILMS about Photography

Documentaries about Photographers:
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
Bill Cunningham New York
Born Into Brothels
Cindy Sherman: Nobody's Here but Me
Finding Vivian Meier
Gregory Crewdson Brief Encounters
Guest of Cindy Sherman
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Work of Gordon Parks
Joel Meyerowitz 1981 Street Photography
The Many Lives of William Klein
Marwencol
Masters of Photography: Diane Arbus
The Real Weegee
The Salt of the Earth (Sebastiao Salgado)
Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
War Photographer (About James Nachtwey)
Waste Land (Vik Muniz)
William Eggleston in the Real World
Nonfiction Films on Photography:
The Adventure of Photography on YouTube and Amazon
Contacts
The Genius of Photography
Through a Lens Darkly
Ways of Seeing
Fiction Films that Include Photography:
Blade Runner
Blow-Up
City of God
High Art
Louder Than Bombs
One Hour Photo
Pecker
Rear Window
ALSO - Some Good Lists with MORE:
20 Documentaries on YouTube
10 Documentaries Every Photographer Should Watch
Documentaries for Photographers
PetaPixel's Big Fat List
5 More from American Photo
Huff Post List
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Chaffey Links

Chaffey's magazine Got Culture?
Chaffey College Art Collection
Chaffey Photography Department
Chaffey E-mail
MyChaffey View
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