Photography: Starting Your Research

Photography Database provides basic factual information about more than 100,000 photographers and photography professionals, as well as public photographic collections world-wide (over 1000), commercial galleries, photographic exhibitions in museums (15,000), and citations to the many published sources used to compile the data. The scope is international, and the time frame runs from the beginnings of photography to contemporary. Data is continually updated -- actively tracking photographer obituaries, new and expanding collections, exhibitions, galleries, reviews, catalogs, and reference literature.

Photographers’ Identities Catalog (PIC) is an experimental interface to a collection of biographical data describing photographers, studios, manufacturers, and others involved in the production of photographic images. Consisting of names, nationalities, dates, locations and more, PIC is a vast and growing resource for the historian, student, genealogist, or any lover of photography's history. The information has been culled from trusted biographical dictionaries, catalogs and databases, and from extensive original research by NYPL Photography Collection staff.

Contains accessible but expert articles on photographers, artists, movements, and times periods.

Smarthistory offers photography and art history content provided by more than 800 leading scholars.

Essays on photography and its history from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.

Tate's online glossary is designed to explain and illuminate some art terminology, including those related to photography.

Free online encyclopedia, great for: finding basic information on a subject, synonyms for subject terms, related subjects, links to scholarly articles, etc. DO NOT CITE, but still consult at the beginning of research.