Museums, Galleries and Collections

An alphabetical list of representative museums and special collections of photographic works.

Ansel Adams Gallery
"The Ansel Adams Gallery strives to cultivate an aesthetic appreciation and concern for our world by offering visitors a unique variety of books, handcrafts, fine arts, and an extraordinary collection of Ansel Adams original photographs."

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography . Musée Canadien de la Photographie Contemporaine
Provides photographs from museum exhibitions from 2000 to the present.

Center for Creative Photography
University of Arizona's "CCP is an archive, museum, and research center dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record."

FotoFest
Located in Houston, Texas, this non-profit international arts and education organization exists "to create an international forum for the exchange of photography and ideas and to promote public appreciation of photographic art."

George Eastman House
The museum collects and interprets images, films, and equipment. The Photography Collection is searchable by photographer and includes photographs and negatives dating from the invention of photography to the present day.

Getty Images
Founded in 1995 by Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein, Getty Images claims to be "the first company to license imagery via the web, moving the entire industry online." You can search the site or view image collections.

National Media Museum [British]
Formerly, the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television. "We are proud to be home to an unrivalled collection of 19th century and early twentieth century photography as well as the first ever negative."

NYPL Digital Gallery
New York Public Library "provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."

Photography: Harry Ransom Center
A part of the University of Texas at Austin Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. You can find information on exhibitions and events as well as visit Ma href="http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/">online exhibitions. Also see the Russell Lee Photograph Collection at the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Smithsonian Photographic Services
Photographs from Smithsonian Institute collections are digitized and accessible from a Table of Contents. There is a link to Smithsonian Images, a site "administered and maintained by Smithsonian Photographic Services, the main photographic office for the National Museum of American History Bering Center, National Museum of Natural History, and National Air and Space Museum. As such, the Office maintains an archive of over 2.5 million contemporary and historic images from these museums."

UCR California Museum of Photography
CMP, at the University of California, Riverside, "is vitally concerned with the intersection of photography, new imaging media and society. It is the museum's goal to empower the museum's visitor with an understanding of the critical role photography and related media have had in shaping both society and the daily lives of individuals."