Open and Accessible Photographic History
(1839-present)

An Ongoing Collaborative Annotated Resource Guide for Photo Historians (CUNY-wide)

About

This Annotated Resource Guide connects advancements made in the Digital Humanities of photography with current discourses in art history that grapple with issues of archives, access, and narrative possibilities. The explosion of digitized material, from books to newspapers and magazines to museums, libraries, and other institutional collections, has expanded the traditional research methods and resources used by photo historians and educators.


Whether you are teaching a course on photography, presenting at a conference, publishing photographs with your work, and having concerns with image copyright, or simply want to explore the world on online photographic archives, there is likely something here to support you.


This photographic archival "hub" allows you to be as structured or loose as needed by providing links and explanations to image repositories for photographic archives.


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If you would like to contribute to this collaborative project with an archive, image, or additional information relevant to open access and photographic research, please fill out this form.

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Jump to: About the ProjectJump to: Photo History Teaching MaterialsExplore: Resources for Photographic Research
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Background Image:
A collection of Open Access images from the Getty Museum Collection
Cover Image:
Scherzo di Follia, Pierre-Louis Pierson, 1863–66 from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access images

Introduction to the Project

A key impetus in building this project is the availability of extensive digitized photographic archives over the past decade. This resource guide seeks to supplement existing humanities initiatives that provide educators in fields such as art history with user-friendly resources. Read about the project below to learn more.

Open access images are significant for the study of photographic history, as they are understood to be part of the public domain and can be utilized freely for educational purposes, presentations, and personal projects. Click below to learn more.

The politics of citation, or citational politics , are vital to uphold or challenge unethical power dynamics in knowledge production. By giving careful thought to the function of citations, we can gain a deeper appreciation of how they embody and propagate the transmission of geographical ideas. Click below to learn more.

Learn about the project and meet the contributors

Learn about Open Access Images and Citational Politics

Photographic Archives and Open Access Images

Photographic Archives and Open Access Images

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