For over four decades, Charles "Teenie" Harris spent his time documenting the African-American community of Pittsburgh for the highly influential Pittsburgh Courier newspaper. Harries was out with his camera from the 1930s to the 1970s, and he took photos of Little League games, church groups, and beauty contests, among other activities. Three years after Harris passed away, the Carnegie Museum of...

The wonderful Eye of Science project began in 1994, and is currently under the direction of Oliver Meckes and Nicole Ottawa. As their philosophic statement on this website states, "Our aim is to combine scientific exactness with aesthetic appearances, and thereby help to bridge the gap between the world of science and the world of art." In order to help serve this mission, they have placed...

This online collection from the Portland Art Museum offers readers a look into some of the best-known photography portfolios created during the five decades between 1940 and 1990. As the site explains, these portfolios were "considered documents rather than works of art, they were typically made for governments or captains of industry. They covered a variety of subjects, including Roman ruins, the...

This site, provided by David Leonard, contains selections from Herman Leonard, the acclaimed jazz photographer whose work is a permanent part of the Smithsonian collection. Users will find wonderful photos of all the greats: Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, and more.

At first glance, the web site for this show of photography at the Tate Britain - the first major exhibition of photography ever to be held at the museum - doesn't seem to include digital version of many photographs from the physical show. There are two albums of historical photos: Mr. & Mrs. Welford's photograph album, and The Ragged School Union, that hold roughly 200 hundred pictures, along...

In Focus: The Tree, is a Getty Museum exhibition of 41 images inspired by trees. On the exhibition's website visitors can see five images of trees, from Myoung Ho Lee, William Henry Fox Talbot, Darius Kinsey, Rhea Garen, and Simryn Gill, most accompanied by audio of curators or the artists discussing their work. Curator Françoise Reynaud explains how early photographer Talbot may have created his...

The best part of this Web exhibition of Jeff's Wall's painterly photographs is being able to read Wall's interviews and essays while you are viewing thumbnail representations of his pictures. These texts are based on interviews conducted with Wall since 1985, collected from a wide variety of publications, that you may not happen to have tucked under your arm when viewing the pictures full size in...

Born in Morocco, Lalla Essaydi's career as an artist began when she moved to France to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the early 1990s. Today she lives and works in New York and Marrakesh. This digital exhibition from the National Museum of African Art brings together some of her photographs, paintings, and multimedia installations. As the site remarks "Essaydi confronts expectations founded on...

Made available by the University of Miami's Cuban Heritage Digital Collection (CHDC) of the Otto G. Richter Library, the Manuel R. Bustamante Photograph Collection contains over 600 photographs of Cuba that date from the turn of the 20th century to the 1930s. Donated by Manuel R. Bustamante, this collection showcases many aspects of Cuban life and culture not only through visual images but also...

This Website presents information about 45 "masters of photography," including such recognizable names as Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Alfred Steiglitz, and Ansel Adams. For each photographer, the site offers a representative selection of photographs arranged in chronological order, links to "articles" about the photographer (typically drawn from the Encyclopedia of Photography entries, but...