Power of a Photograph
Steve McCurry's "Afghan Girl" in 1984 and 2002
- Steve McCurryAbout Steve and the Imagineasia Foundation
- Photojournalist QuotesQuotes by Alfred Eisenstaedt
- Sharbat GulaMore about "the Afghan girl" and the impact of that photo.
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Websites
- AP ImagesPhotos from The Associated Press, plus graphics, text and audio.
- Art ProjectExplore museums from around the world, discover and View hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
- Dallas Morning NewsFeatured photo galleries.
- Famous Journalists and PhotojournalistsWrite Site: Ohio Educational Telecommunications Network Commission
- Gordon Parks's Alternative Civil Rights PhotographsA Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images
- International Center of PhotographyWorks by Arthur Fellig (Weegee). Also search museum site for Dorothea Lange, James Nachtway and more.
- Joseph Saxton Gallery of CantonHistoric and Contemporary Photography
- List of PhotojournalistsNote: Wikipedia can be useful for generating lists of this sort.
- Massillon MuseumCurrently featuring: Between Two Worlds: The Photography of Nell Dorr
- Metropolitan MuseumWorks by Alfred Stieglitz, Aaron Siskind, Timothy O'Sullivan and others
- Museum of Modern ArtIncludes work by Bernice Abbott, Ilse Bing and others
- National Press Photographers AssociationThe National Press Photographers Association is dedicated to the advancement of visual journalism, its creation, practice, training, editing and distribution, in all news media and works to promote its role as a vital public service.
- Photograph Archives Smithsonian American Art MuseumIncludes Ashcan School and Photographic Portraits of American Artists.
- Shorpy Historic Photo ArchiveHistory in HD is a vintage photo blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
- Victoria SambunarisVictoria Sambunaris‘s photography is obsessed with the American landscape. Over the past decade, Sambunaris and her large format camera have traversed the country by car on what she describes as “seemingly every road, parkway, thruway, highway, freeway and turnpike between the coasts and beyond.”
- Vivian Maier - Her Discovered WorkThis was created in dedication to the photographer Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s - 1990s. Vivian's work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she resided most of her life. Her discovered work includes over 100,000 mostly medium format negatives, thousands of prints, and countless undeveloped rolls of film.
- Who Shot Rock and RollCurrently at the Akron Museum of Art
About Photojournalism
"Until the identity of the American daguerreotypist of the American-Mexican War of 1846-1847 is known, Carol Szathmari (1812-1887) must be considered the world's first combat photographer" ~ Adrian Silvan IONESCU
Brief History of Photojournalism
This LibGuide will help you find information about photojournalism and photojournalists.
Resources to Start With
Call Number: TR816 .E93 2012
ISBN: 9780807752821
Publication Date: 2011
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0805833757
Photojournalist Books in the Library
Call Number: Oversize E169.04 .D39
ISBN: 000217734X
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Call Number: Oversize TR654 .P37
ISBN: 0670484725
Publication Date: 1975-09-22
Call Number: TR139 .W39 2000
ISBN: 0807848832
Publication Date: 2000-11-06
Wexler examines the work of Frances Benjamin Johnston, Gertrude Kasebier, Alice Austen, the Gerhard sisters, and Jessie Tarbox Beals. The book includes more than 150 photographs taken between 1898 and 1904, such as photos Johnston took aboard Admiral Dewey's flagship as it returned home from conquering Manila, Austen's photos of immigrants at Ellis Island, and Beals's images of the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904.
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Local Photojournalists
- Growing Season (about Harville migrant workers) Additional Resources About Gary Harwood
- Kay Wuske and Gigi Muir Towpath Twenty Ten
Kay and Gigi spent the year 2010 photographing the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath trail. Hiking several hundred miles up and down the trail, they took over 80,000 photos.
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