offers an essay, timeline, and other information about this photographer who took more than 40,000 images and recorded rare ethnographic information from over 80 American Indian tribal groups, ranging from the Eskimo or Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. This is the companion website for a PBS film about Curtis, "Coming to Light." contains links to thousands of the most famous documentary photographs ever produced. The Farm Security Administrations's photographs cover the Great Depression, while the Office of War Administration's photographs look at the mobilization effort for World War II. presents more than 100 photos from battlefronts around the world. Topics include aviation, battle of Britain, France, Germany, the Holocaust, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Japan, naval battles, Philippine Islands, prisoners, and victory. presents nearly 200 photos and drawings of Native Americans -- agriculture, burial customs, councils, dances, fishing, food preparation, homes, hunting, portraits, pottery, villages, and more. presents more than 20 panoramic photos: Chattanooga, TN, from a hilltop after the Union Army captured the city (1864); San Francisco after the earthquake (1906); the Panama Canal during its construction (1909); farm buildings at a ranch in Oklahoma (date unknown); Washington, D.C., viewed from atop the Washington Monument (1916); a machine gun battalion before being sent to fight in World War I (1917); and more. looks at surrealism, war, and other themes in photography after World War I, when it spread as form of art and a symbol of modernity across Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, and Poland. is a resource for scholarship in the history of photography. Search a database of photos by various criteria: title, date, description, photographer, country, and others. Discover the chronology of historic developments in photography, beginning with announcement on January 7, 1839, at the French Academy of Science in Paris that Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre had invented the daguerreotype. shows striking photos of Aleutian clouds, the Araca River (Brazil), Atlas Mountains (Morocco), Guinea-Bissau (West Africa), Bolivian deforestation, Parana River delta marshland (Argentina), volcanoes in Chile, the Great Salt Desert in Iran (Dasht-e Kevir), Dragon Lake (Siberia), the Everglades, Ganges River delta, Greenland coast, West Fjords (Iceland), Karman vortices, Kilimanjaro (East Africa), the world's largest glacier (Lambert Glacier), and more.
presents 1,600 color photos -- rural and small-town life, migrant labor, the Great Depression, railroads, military training, aircraft manufacturing, and mobilizing for World War II. A special feature, "Collection Connections," provides ideas for learning about women in the war effort, New Deal work programs, farm workers, relief programs, and military training.
In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students learn about the importance of ocean conservation. They think about how photography can help humans understand the impact they are having on the oceans by looking at the photography of David Doubilet. They look at animals that are endangered because of human behavior and choose one to study in depth. Finally, students draw the animal they chose and describe why it is in peril and how it can be protected.
In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students research environmental problems facing the world's oceans and think about how the art of photography can help solve these problems. The lesson uses David Doubilet's photography as an example.
In this lesson, from ARTSEDGE, students examine the ways in which art has the power to influence government policy. Students learn that photography has had a social impact at various intersections with other historical events and movements. This lesson addresses the impact the photographs of the western frontier had on the eastern U.S., especially by ensuring that the national parks system would be created.
Eliot Porter was a nature photographer working in color when color film was new. The site is geared to middle school students, but students of all ages can enjoy the images and learn from Porter’s appreciation of nature and compositions using framing, angle of view, and light quality. Student activities include sections titled: Becoming an Artist, The World of Eliot Porter, and Making a Statement and a printable activity log with questions related to the three sections. Photography assignments focus on colors in nature and neighborhood environments. The 10 page activity log and photography assignments are available in html and pdf formats. Rollovers (mouseovers) define terms and provide bibliographic citations.
