| Directory > Arts > Photography > Reference > Collections Cleveland Museum of Art: Photography Collection
A virtual tour of the photography collection. Although a very large number of prints may be viewed,
no search tool is currently available.
http://www.clevelandart.org/Explore/department.asp?level=1&deptgroup=6
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Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center: Photography
Begun in 1963 with Ransom's purchase of the Gernsheim Collection, the Center's Photography
Collections encompass the history of photography. In addition to the world's first photograph, the
Collections feature significant holdings of numerous notable early photographers.
http://auden.hrc.utexas.edu/Photofiles/search1.htm
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Peabody Essex Museum
The photography collection comprises more than a half million rare and vintage images representing
nearly every kind of photographic format and process, and featuring nineteenth-century photographs
of Asia, maritime images, early American photographic portraits, as well as architectural and
landscape images.
http://www.pem.org/collections/photography.php
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National Archives of Canada: Photography
The National Archives has acquired over twenty-two million photographs illustrating Canadian
reality, and certain aspects of the world in general. The search tool allows to consult almost
400,000 descriptions of photographs, as well as to have access to some 10,000 digitized images
on-line.
http://www.archives.ca/02/020115_e.html
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts Photography Collection
The Institute’s collection of photographs spans the history of the medium as fine art, from the
1860s to the present, but focuses primarily 20th-century American, photographers.
http://www.artsmia.org/collection/search.cfm?dept=7
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Light Work Collection
Light Work's permanent collection consists primarily of work made by artists who have participated
in the Artist-in-Residence program and past Light Work Grant recipients, primarily emerging and
under-represented artists. Searchable by artist.
http://lightwork.syr.edu/
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Museum of the City of New York: Photographs from the Office of War Information
For public consumption abroad, the Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information (OWI) presented
the positive side of New York City life during the War. Photographs from the collection showing
landmarks to visit, neighborhoods in which people worked and lived, where to shop, and how to
travel.
http://www.mcny.org/Research/NYWAR/thumb1.htm
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Photography collection of the NGA includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs by
European and American photographers. Information page plus tour of collection.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggphoto/ggphoto-main1.html
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The Keystone-Mast Collection
The Keystone-Mast Collection at the California Museum of Photography represents the archive of the
Keystone View Company of Meadville, PA. Offers an encyclopedic view of world history and cultural
diversity.
http://photo.ucr.edu/kmast/
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The collection illustrates the evolution of early-20th-century photographic styles, beginning with
photographs that imitate romantic painting styles. The MFAH´s collection is strongest in the new
approaches to photography that emerged in the second half of the 20th century. Information page
plus collection highlights.
http://www.mfah.org/main.asp?target=collection&par1=14&par3=70
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European Photographs Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Includes works by Jean-Eugene Auguste Atget, August Sander, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert McPherson
and Gustave Le Gray, among many others. Searchable by artist and title.
http://www.mfa.org/artemis/results.asp?pk=2552&so=2&sd=0
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Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne
The collection of the Museum (including the Elysée Foundation collection). This section presents
the most important portfolios.
http://www.elysee.ch/collections/collection_en.html
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Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Includes selections from the Helmer Backstrom collection and the Gernsheim Collection, focusing on
older processes. Especially strong representation of Swedish photography.
http://www.modernamuseet.se/v4/templates/template3.asp?id=1474
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Photomuse: A Join Project of the George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography
The Photomuse collection provides a large sample of photographs from the photographic archives of
the International Center of Photography and the George Eastman House.
http://www.icp.org/collections/index.html
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George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
The Photography Collection includes photographs and negatives dating from the invention of
photography to the present day. Searchable by photographer.
http://www.geh.org/photographers.html
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Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona
Manuscripts, photographic materials, photographs, negatives, albums, work prints, audiovisual
materials, contact sheets, correspondence, memorabilia and other unique artifacts relevant to the
history of twentieth-century photography.
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/collection/research.html
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
The LOC prints and photographs collections number more than 13.7 million images. While
international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or
documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the
American people.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs surveys the history of photography from its
invention in the 1830s to the present. The collection is largely European and American, with some
representation of other parts of the world, particularly Japan. Information page with examples in
roughly chronological order.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=19
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The Getty Museum: Photographs
A vast collection representing the history and practice of photography and searchable by process
type.
http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/collection_types/c260.html
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