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Photography

This guide serves as a starting place for researching photography

This page features open-access internet resources that anyone can use, related to Photography.

Internet Resources

  • Google Arts & Culture 

    • Discover digitized artwork from ancient artifacts to modern photography. Explore by medium, time period, geographical region, and more. 

  • Calisphere

    • Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.

  • Digital Public Library of America

    • Discover 52,609,255 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    • Provides digitized access to over 375,000 works from the Met including artworks by region, costumes and fashion, artifacts, and more. Explore their photography collection here

  • Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection

    • The Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection contains images from the 1850s to the present, documenting all aspects of life in Southern California, with an emphasis on Los Angeles.

  • Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

    • The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.