Best of the Web

  • Selected links to photography sites, with special emphasis on resources for educators and students.
  • Today, strategic branding is the core of comprehensive Portfolio Center educations in Design, Writing, Art Direction, Illustration, and Photography. Each program is linked to one of the country's best NewMedia/Architecture programs. This offers tremendous freedom to experiment. Like the industries we serve, like the technology that surrounds us, like the young people who come here to learn, Portfolio Center is constantly changing.
  • powerHouse Books is a stalwart, avant-garde publisher of photography, art, and popular culture titles based in New York City.
  • The key to our program is access. With working photographers and film makers as your teachers, you have access to some of the best media artists in New York City. Equipment and facilities include photo and video studios, individual darkrooms, color processors, ProTools, flatbed editing suites, an animation studio, Avid, and more.
  • It is Norway's national museum of photography with a collection covering all aspects of the history of photography. The Museum offers visitors many exciting experiences within the expanded field of photography from the earliest technical and scientific experiments to contemporary photographic art that has pushed back the boundaries of what a photograph can be.
  • Printed Matter, Inc. is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of publications made by artists.
  • Unique in their scope and richness, the Prints and the Photographs collections today number more than 13.7 million images. These include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings.
  • An in-depth glossary of photographic terms and their definitions.
  • The Provincial Museum of Photography, one of the world's major photography museums, uses photographs, pieces of equipment and other objects and documents to illustrate the history of this medium.
  • Developed by the legendary Harry Callahan, photography programs have a proud history at RISD. The department offers courses of study leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Photography.
  • RMSP provides high quality, up-to-date photography education for students, and strives for teaching excellence founded on our deep passion for photography.
  • This magnificent collection of over 150,000 photographs, books, items of equipment and other unique material, covers the whole evolution of photography and the variety of photographic processes, illustrated by the work of such early pioneers as Talbot, Fenton, Cameron and Robinson.
  • The Museum owns over 120,000 negatives, pictures and a collection of cameras.
  • Founded in 1974, SFCAMERAWORK encourages emerging and mid-career artists to explore new directions in photography and related media by fostering creative forms of expression that push existing boundaries.
  • Pursuing a career as an artist is a significant and exciting decision. The San Francisco Art Institutes focus on skills, experimentation, and active dialogue make it a perfect place to explore and emerge as the artist you want to become.
  • The Santa Fe Workshops is committed to providing a nurturing, positive, challenging, and experiential photographic and digital environment in which imagemakers of all skill levels, ages, and nationalities can explore and achieve their potential.
  • The photography department is continually redefining "fine art photography" in an expanding and openly creative way. The department relates to all the other areas in the School in an atmosphere of cross-fertilization and evolution.
  • SPE is a non-profit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography and related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight. Through its interdisciplinary programs, services and publications, the society seeks to promote a broader understanding of the medium in all its forms, and to foster the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism.
  • The Museum is a vibrant and vital meeting place of ideas and has an excellent reputation for its dynamic exhibitions, programs and publications.
  • This site offers thousands of titles at discounted prices, with easy on-line ordering. Staff reviews help you choose the best photo books for research, reference, or pure enjoyment.
  • The International Center of Photography is a museum, a school and a center for photographers and photography. ICP's mission is to present photography's vital and&nbsp central place in contemporary culture, and to lead in interpretation issues central to its development.
  • The Store offers one of the most complete collections of photography and film/video books.
  • The library has some 12,000 titles, including a large number of first editions, spanning the last fifty years of the history of photography.
  • Toppest's Photography page features recent photography news headlines and a photography website directory.
  • The presence and impact of photography is evident in contemporary art practice, as can be seen by the quality and volume of photography exhibited in galleries and museums, as well as in new web-based art forums. The level of technical and conceptual sophistication in the photography and digital imaging programs at Tyler exposes the student to many career opportunities.
  • Recognized as one of top photography collections in the world, it comprises over 10,000 photographs, from early daguerreotypes to contemporary digital images, by almost every recognized master of the medium.
  • The Department of Art offers professional art training which emphasizes experimentation and encourages students to draw from many disciplines in their creative process. The department provides a strong background in theory and criticism to support contemporary studio practice. Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees are offered in painting and drawing, new genres, photography, sculpture, and ceramics.
  • Glossaries of analog and digitalphotography terms with direct links to ready resources sites for major 35mm and medium format cameras.
  • The Museum began acquiring photographs in 1852 and its collection is now one of the largest and most important in the world.
  • A Master of Fine Arts degree in Visual Studies is offered through a joint program with the State University College at Brockport, incorporating studies in history, theory, and criticism with an emphasis on studio practice in photography, visual books, film/video and digital media. Semester-long Evening Classes, Summer Workshops and Weekend Workshops are scheduled on a continuing basis. Lectures and screenings are also open to the public.
  • Changing exhibitions of renowned photographers and young talents augment the Museum's collection of cameras and photographs.
  • The Workshops was founded in 1973 as a summer conservatory for the world's photographers and filmmakers. Over the past 30 summers, The Workshops has grown into a year-round college and learning center for the world's filmmakers, photographers, actors, writers, digital artists and creative professionals. We now offer 250 one-week workshops and master classes. Rockport College came into existence in 1996 and now offers an Associate of Arts degree, a Master of Fine Arts degree and a one-year Professional Certificate program.
  • The program is committed to a broad definition of photography as a lens-based medium open to a variety of expressive means. Students work both individually and in groups with faculty and visiting artists.
  • Here you will find dictionaries and glossaries of photographic terms.

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