LibGuides: Research: Parsons: Photography

Project Information

Photographer Biography

In real life: Six women photographers by Leslie Sills
Call Number: 920 SIL
ISBN: 0823414981
Publication Date: 2000
Recounts the lives of six women who left indelible imprints on their craft of photography. Features Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Carrie Mae Weems, Elsa Dorfman & Cindy Sherma.

American Memory: America's first look into the camera This link opens in a new window
Library of Congress website. Includes links to history of photography and the image.

There are more than 725 daguerreotypes in the Prints & Photographs Division.
American Museum of Photography This link opens in a new window
"American Museum of Photography is an award-winning Virtual Museum dedicated to educating, informing, and sharing great photographs with millions of Internet visitors world-wide. Exhibitions are drawn from the Museum's Collection, started by Wm. B. Becker more than 35 years ago. The Collection includes five thousand individual images, from the earliest daguerreotype portraits to the work of Ansel Adams. Each photograph has been chosen for its visual impact as well as for the importance of it."
ipl2: Photography This link opens in a new window
Includes a listing for over 450 websites relevant to photography

"In January 2010, the website "ipl2: information you can trust" was launched, merging the collections of resources from the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) websites. The site is hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology, and a consortium of colleges and universities"