The University of British Columbia

Art + Architecture + Planning
UBC Library

• Museums & Exhibitions

• Photography Resources

• Historic Photography

• Magazines

• Special Interest Topics
  

• Digital Photography Exhibits An international juried exhibit exploring new work created by artists who work with cameras and computers.

• California Museum of Photography Always featuring many excellent exhibits.

• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography An affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa.

• Center for Creative Photography CCP is an archive, museum, and research center dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record.

• George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. "... includes Mr. Eastman's restored house and gardens, an archives building and research center, galleries, two theaters, and an education center. The Museum displays the art, technology, and impact of photography and motion pictures over 150 years."

• Fotomuseum The Fotomuseum Winterthur, currently featuring Daido Moriyama until the end of March 2000.

• ICP International Center of Photography. Located in New York City, the ICP is "a museum, a school and a center for photographers and photography".

• The Museum of Photographic Arts One of the only museums in North America dedicated solely to photography. Collects and shows from early and mid-20th century masterworks to contemporary fine art and photojournalism.

• New York Public Library Photography Collection "The Photography Collection contains nearly 300,000 original photographic prints, from the medium's 150+ year history, representing an international range of photographers and comprising a thorough survey of subjects and processes."

• About.com - Photography Peter Marshall's metasite hosted by About.com.

• Photography in New York A bimonthly guide to fine art photography with listings of American and international exhibitions, dealers, events and services, with an emphasis on New York City.

• Phototec Great list of links on the technical side: UV, Infrared, Holography, a comprehensive list of links to companies, personal homepages, museums and galleries, and more.

• Albumen History, science and preservation of albumen photographs, by the National Center for Preservation Technology & Training and the Monterey Museum of Art, hosted by Stanford University.

• Blindspot A mostly image based site by acclaimed and emerging artists. Also includes interviews, fiction, and events.

• Great Lakes Area Plastic Camera Group A non-competitive group dedicated to the pursuit of photography as expression, through the use of toy cameras.

• American from the Great Depression to World War II Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-24. A Library of Congress American Memory Project.

• Vancouver Public Library's Historial Photographs Database The collection contains more than 250,000 black and white negatives and prints covering all aspects of life in British Columbia from the 1880s to the present. There are now approximately 4,000 digitized photographs in the database and available for viewing on VPL's web site.

• Yousuf Karsh : a selective bibliography. Materials available at the National Library of Canada; prepared to accompany the exhibition Karsh Masterworks - A Tribute, running September 18 to November 3, 2002 at the National Library of Canada.