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  ARTstor
Large and growing database of digital images in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Includes Art History Survey collection, Carnegie Arts of the United States, the Digital Bartsch, MoMA's Digital Design Collection and others.
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  Columbia Image Bank
Over 27,000 high-quality digital images with a special emphasis on those required for teaching the history of Western Art. Included are images from many of the world’s major collections including the Louvre, Musée D’Orsay, Uffizi Palace, and the Prado as well as many important archaeological sites including Ephesus, Pergamum and Mycenae. The images are licensed chiefly from Saskia, Ltd., and are subject to certain use restrictions. (Displayed using the Luna Insight® system.)
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  Mnemosyne
The Mnemosyne: Visual Culture Database houses more than 45,000 images of the fine arts, architecture, and archaeology with a wide selection of both Western and Non-Western subjects. We named the database Mnemosyne (pronunciation), the daughter of Uranus and Gaea, the personification of Memory, and, most importantly, the mother of the nine Muses, patron goddesses of the arts. The scope of the database reflects the curricula of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Barnard College. This database is no longer updated with new images.
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  David Rumsey Photography Collection
     
  The New York Public Library
-- Berenice Abbott, "Changing New York, 1935-1938"
-- The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931
-- Lewis Wickes Hine's "Work Portraits"
-- Selections from The Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereographic Views
     

The Univeristy of Chicago
-- Hensley Photo Library
This collection is comprised of photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Glenn S. Hensley.
-- Keagle Photograph Library
This collection is comprised of photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Robert Keagle.
-- Bond Photograph Library
This collection is comprised of photographs taken during World War II by an American serviceman, Frank Bond.

     
  American Memory from the Library of Congress
     
     

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19th-century Photographers   20th-century Photographers  

  French

    French  

  British

    British  

  American

    German & Austrian  
      Central & Eastern European  
      Russian & Soviet  
      American  


NINTEENTH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHERS
     
     
    FRENCH
     
  Eugène Atget (French photographer, 1857–1927)
     
  Edouard-Denis Baldus (French photographer, 1815–1882)
     
  Hippolyte Bayard (French photographer, 1801–1887)
     
  Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre (French painter, photographer, 1787–1851)
     
  André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri (French photographer, 1819–1889/90)
     
  Maxime DuCamp
     
  Gustave Le Gray (French photographer, 1820–1882)
     
  Henri Jean-Louis Le Secq (French photographer, 1818–1882)
     
  Etienne-Jules Marey (French physiologist, inventor, photographer, 1830–1904)
     
  Charles Marville (French photographer, 1816–1879)
     
  Paul Nadar (Gaspard Felix Tournachon)
     
  Nicéphore Niépce (French photographer, 1765–1833)
     
  Charles Nègre (French photographer, 1820–1880)
     
  Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot (French, 1801–1881, daguerreotypist)
     
  Adrien Alban Tournachon (French painter, photographer, 1825–1903)
     
     
    BRITISH
     
  Robert Adamson (British chemist, photographer, 1821–1848)
     
  James Anderson [a.k.a. Isaac Atkinson, William Nugent Dunbar] (British photographer, 1813-1877)
     
  Julia Margaret Cameron (British photographer, 1815–1879)
     
  Roger Fenton (British photographer, 1819–1869)
     
  Francis Frith (British photographer, 1822–1898)
     
  Clementina Elphinstone Hawarden (British photographer, 1822–1865)
     
  David Octavius Hill (British painter, photographer, 1802–1870)
     
  William Henry Fox Talbot (British photographer, 1800–1877)
     
     
    AMERICAN
     
  Mathew B. Brady (American photographer, 1823–1896)
     
  F. Holland Day (1864–1933)
     
  Alexander Gardner (American photographer, 1821–1882)
     
  William Henry Jackson (American photographer, 1843-1942)
     
  Eadweard Muybridge (British photographer, worked in America, 1830–1904)
     
  Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American photographer, 1840–1882)
     
  Jacob Riis (American journalist, reformer, photographer, 1849–1914)
     
  Carleton E. Watkins (American photographer, 1829–1916)
     
     
TWENTIETH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHERS
     
     
    FRENCH
     
  Jacques André Boiffard
     
  Henri Cartier-Bresson (French photographer, b.1908)
     
     
    BRITISH
     
  Frederick H. Evans (British photographer, 1852-1943)
     
     
    GERMAN & AUSTRIAN
     
  Hans Bellmer (German painter, 1902–1975)
     
  Ella Bergmann-Michel (German artist, 1896–1971)
     
  Gisèle Freund (German photographer, b.1912)
     
  George Grosz (German painter, photomontage artist, 1893-1959)
     
  Raoul Hausmann (Photomontage artist, 1886-1971)
     
  John Heartfield (Artist, photographer, 1891–1968)
     
  Hannah Höch (German artist, 1889–1978)
     
  Annelise Kretschmer
     
  Etel Mittag-Fodor
     
  Albert Renger-Patzsch (German photographer, 1897–1966)
     
  Ringl & Pit
     
  August Sander (German photographer, 1876-1964)
     
     
    CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPEAN
     
  Gyula Halász Brassaï (Hungarian photographer, 1899–1984)
     
  Germaine Krull (Polish photographer, 1897–1985)
     
     
    RUSSIAN & SOVIET
     
  B. Ignatovich
     
  Gustav Gustavovic Klutsis (Russian artist, 1895–1944)
     
  El Lissitzky (Russian photographer, printmaker, painter, architect, sculptor, and theorist, 1890–1941)
     
  Aleksandr Rodchenko (Russian photographer, 1891–1956)
     
  Arkady Shaikhet
     
     
    AMERICAN
     
  Ansel Adams (American photographer, 1902–1984)
     
  Diane Arbus (American photographer, 1923–1971)
     
  Berenice Abbott (American photographer, 1898–1991)
     
  Margaret Bourke-White (American photographer, 1904–1971)
     
  Harry Callahan, (American photographer and teacher, 1912–1999)
     
  Roy DeCarava (American photographer, b.1919)
     
  Walker Evans (American photographer, 1903–1975)
     
  Robert Louis Frank (American photographer, b.1924)
     
  Lewis Wickes Hine (American photographer, 1874–1940)
     
  Lotte Jacobi (American photographer, 1896–1990)-- START HERE
     
  Gertrude Käsebier (American photographer, 1852–1934)
     
  Dorothea Lange (American photographer, 1895–1965)
     
  Lisette Model (American photographer and teacher, born 1901, Vienna, Austria; died 1983, New York City)
     
  Tina Modotti (American photographer, b. in Italy; 1896–1942)
     
  Man Ray (American painter, photogapher, 1890–1976, died in France)
     
  Charles Sheeler (1883–1965)
     
  Edward Steichen (American photographer, 1879–1973, born in Luxembourg)
     
  Alfred Stieglitz (American photographer, eidtor, and publisher, 1864–1946)
     
  Paul Strand (American photographer, 1890–1976)
     
  Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
     
  Arthur Weegee (American photographer, 1899–1968, born in Poland)
     
  Clarence H. White (1871–1925)
     

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