About the Project

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.

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. Rather than viewing archives as mere collections of files that are infrequently consulted and analyzed, this project envisions a future in which photo history is characterized by accessibility, generosity, intelligence, and practicality. By adopting these qualities, the field of art history can become more inclusive and provide fresh perspectives in the humanities.