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    Round Up: Photography

    by Meghan Kowalski on 2025-04-30T08:00:00-04:00 | 0 Comments

    From insightful blogs and academic journals to curated image databases and world-class museum collections, the photography world is full of places to learn, explore, and get inspired. In this month's round up, were sharing resources to learn about this wonderful medium.

     

    Databases

    • ArtSTOR - ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
    • LIFE Photo Archive - With approximately 10 million photos accessible, the LIFE magazine archive is a rich resource for anyone seeking images relating to U.S. history and world events. Names of photographers and the dates that photos were taken are identified.

     

    Journals

    • Photo Imaging News - For 38 years, Photofinishing News has provided analysis, reports, and market forecasts (2000-2020) on Photo and Print Service Provider Industries for both Consumer & Professional Markets.
    • Photoworks Annual - Photoworks champions photography for everyone. We are an international platform, global in reach, and have provided opportunities for artists and audiences since 1995.
    • Popular Photography - Popular Photography empowers readers to make the most out of the cameras in their hands. With expert yet easy-to-follow advice at its core, PopPhoto showcases the tools, techniques, and inspiration enthusiasts need to create great pictures.

     

    Books

    Cover ArtPicturing Place by James R. Ryan (Editor); Joan Schwartz (Editor)
     
    The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their communities, and the world beyond. The geographical imagination--the ability to know the world and situate oneself in space and time--fostered the expectations and applications of photographic technologies, and photographic technologies expresses the form and reach of the geographical imagination. This dialectic is the basis of this collection of intriguing essays, which explore the diverse ways in which the relationship manifested.
     
    Cover ArtPhotography by Barbara London; John Upton; Jim Stone
     
    The most comprehensive, up-to-date resource for today's photography students. Photography Eleventh edition offers an in-depth approach to photography that spans the ever-changing landscape of photography-from dark-room to digital print. This edition presents all facets of photography, laying out what you need to know to make photographs with digital tools as well as the integral steps to perfecting film print.
     
    Cover ArtMore Surreal Digital Photography by Ben Renow-Clarke
     
    MORE Surreal Digital Photography is where photography and painting merge to create a new digital art form. This book builds on the first volume, including more in-depth tutorials and more hands-on exercises demonstrating how each image is created-broadening your digital photography skills and creativity. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions updated for the latest version of Adobe Photoshop, this book is perfect for photographers and graphic designers wanting to expand their horizons in the digital photography field.
     
    Cover ArtA Short Course in Photography by Barbara London; Jim Stone
     
    This easy-to-use book introduces beginners to the fundamentals of photography and suggests ways in which they might create photographs that have meaning.
    Cover ArtPhotography by John Beaver
     
    This book uses art photography as a point of departure for learning about physics, while also using physics as a point of departure for asking fundamental questions about the nature of photography as an art.
     
     
     
    Cover ArtResearch in Photography by Anna Fox; Natasha Caruana
     
    A body of photographic work is developed through knowledge gained in exploring the medium: investigating histories and theories of photography, observing the world, reading and listening, taking part in debate and critical reflection. With 150 images bringing together an eclectic range of photographic styles and genres, Fox and Caruana demonstrate how research can lead to fruitful, original photography projects. Designed to help you create better pictures, for portfolio or for profit, Research in Photography offers essential research and communication techniques to complement your technical expertise through a range of practical tools and examples. Two new chapters have been added to this second edition on 'Writing for Research' and 'Commercial Practice', as well as additional coverage discussing how to secure funding and professionalizing research.
     
    Cover ArtThe Handbook of Photography Studies by Gil Pasternak (Editor)
     
    The Handbook of Photography Studies is a state-of-the-art overview of the field of photography studies, examining its thematic interests, dynamic research methodologies and multiple scholarly directions. It is a source of well-informed, analytical and reflective discussions of all the main subjects that photography scholars have been concerned with as well as a rigorous study of the field's persistent expansion at a time when digital technology regularly boosts our exposure to new and historical photographs alike. Split into five core parts, the Handbook analyzes the field's histories, theories and research strategies; discusses photography in academic disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts; draws out the main concerns of photographic scholarship; interrogates photography's cultural and geopolitical influences; and examines photography's multiple uses and continued changing faces. Each part begins with an introductory text, giving historical contextualization and scholarly orientation. Featuring the work of international experts, and offering diverse examples, insights and discussions of the field's rich historiography, the Handbook provides critical guidance to the most recent research in photography studies. This pioneering and comprehensive volume presents a systematic synopsis of the subject that will be an invaluable resource for photography researchers and students from all disciplinary backgrounds in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
     

    Here in DC

    • Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the National Museum of African Art -The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives is a research and reference center devoted to the collection, preservation and dissemination of visual materials that encourage and support the study of the arts, cultures and history of Africa. The archives collections contain approximately 500,000 items, including rare collections of glass plate negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, postcards, maps and engravings. The Elisofon Archives staff works with art historians, anthropologists, photographers, filmmakers and other specialists in acquiring and preserving these visual resources.
    • Exposures Gallery - Founded in 1985, Multiple Exposures Gallery is the longest continuously operating fine art photography gallery in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Multiple Exposures Gallery promotes the growth and development of fine art photography and represents some of the most highly recognized photographers in the region. The gallery features rotating exhibitions of work by its represented artists, often in collaboration with independent, nationally recognized jurors and curators.
    • Photography at the National Gallery of Art - In 1990 the National Gallery launched an initiative to acquire the finest examples of the art of photography and to mount photography exhibitions of the highest quality, accompanied by scholarly publications and programs. In the years since, the Gallery’s collection of photographs has grown to over 20,000 works encompassing the history of the medium from its beginnings in 1839 to the present, featuring in-depth holdings of work by many of the masters of the art form. The Gallery’s program of exhibitions and publications is now considered among the best in the world.
    • Star Power: Photographs from Hollywood’s Golden Age by George Hurrell at The National Portrait Gallery - During the 1930s and early 1940s, George Hurrell (1904–1992) reigned as Hollywood’s preeminent portrait photographer. Hired by the Publicity Department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) when he was only twenty-five, Hurrell advanced rapidly to become the studio’s principal portraitist. With a keen eye for artful posing, innovative lighting effects, and skillful retouching, he produced timeless portraits that burnished the luster of many of the “Golden Age’s” greatest stars. “They were truly glamorous people,” he recalled, “and that was the image I wanted to portray.”

     

    Websites

    • DIY Photography - Established in 2006, DIYP has been at the forefront of the industry for over 15 years, providing our readers with the latest news, insights, and inspiration.
    • Still Searching (Fotomuseum Winterthur) - From 2012 to 2023, the discursive blog format of Fotomuseum Winterthur subjected all aspects of photography and its role in visual culture to interdisciplinary scrutiny. The approximately 50 bloggers that contributed to Still Searching… discussed photographic media and forms within their complex technological, capitalist and ideological networks and negotiated some of the most pressing and relevant questions surrounding photography.
    • Strobist - Strobist is an online project that was published from 2006 to 2021 by former Baltimore Sun photojournalist David Hobby. Available here as a completed archive, and presented without advertising, it remains world's most comprehensive source for photographic lighting education.    
    • AP Images Blog - The Associated Press delivers more than 3,000 photos a day from journalists recording news as it happens around the world. For more than a century, AP has captured the greatest moments in history, breaking news, sports, politics and entertainment. AP’s photography has won numerous awards, including 31 photo Pulitzers, the most of any news organization.
    • PetaPixel - Established in May of 2009, PetaPixel is the world’s leading independent photography, videography, and imaging technology publication. 
    • Digital Photography School - Digital Photography School has what you need to take your photography to the next level. They offer daily tips, resources and free tutorials that will help you get the most out your camera and create stunning photos
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