Photographs by
"Photographs: Archival Care and Management is a how-to manual about the preservation
and use of photographs in archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural heritage
organizations.1 Such archival repositories vary widely in size and subject focus, but also
share many common needs. Archival repositories preserve treasured images that have
powerful impacts. They also contain masses of photographs that rely on association
with related images or textual records to convey information and provide evidence. This
manual seeks to improve the management of collections containing visual materials by
focusing on photographs that have enduring documentary value as historical resource
materials for research, publication, exhibition, and teaching. Images appreciated chiefly
as fine art objects are largely outside the books scope."
The History of Photography by
Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book has managed to relate the aesthetic evolution and technical innovations of photography with such an absorbing combination of clarity, scholarship and enthusiasm. For this fifth edition the entire volume has been completely revised and expanded, and over half of the photographs have been newly selected. Through more than 300 works by such master photographers asWilliam Henry Fox Talbot, Timothy O'Sullivan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange,Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Brassaï, Henri Cartier- Bresson, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, the author presents a fascinating, comprehensive study of the significant trends and developments in the medium since the first photographs were made 1839. New selections added to this fifth edition include photographs made in colour, from handtinted daguerreotypes to autochromes by Steichen to works by such contemporary masters as Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas,William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz.
The Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division has digitized an impressive array of image formats / types and subjects. Those digital materials, grouped by collection, can be found here. Similarly, the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration include 3 million digital photographs and graphic images in the Still Picture collections at the National Archives at College Park; those digitized materials can be found by scrolling to the bottom of the page (Photographs and Graphic Works in College Park, Maryland).