Guides: Course Guide ~ COLEG 395 / Photography and Arts Leadership in the Global City: Photography Collections and Collectors

Museums

International Center for Photography
The Met - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
MoMa - The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of the City of New York
This database contains over 185,000 images (including photographs, maps, archival materials and multimedia) related to the history of New York City.
The Studio Museum in Harlem
The nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by Black culture.
Whitney Museum of American Art

Brooklyn Visual Heritage Project
Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs
Contains catalog records and digital images of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress.
Museum of the City of New York
- Digital Collections
New York Historical Society
- Digital Collections
- Photographs of New York City and Beyond
New York Public Library
- Digital Collections - Photography
- Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Archives of American Art
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Preeminent research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America. Includes letters, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, financial records, photographs, films, and audiovisual recordings of artists, dealers, collectors, critics, scholars, museums, galleries, associations, and other art world figures.

Artstor on JSTOR
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An image library for the arts and sciences. A rich collection of more than one million high-resolution images and tools for teaching and research. Subjects include architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects. Coverage: prehistory to present.
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Associated Press Images Collection
Access to over 12 million current and historical news photographs, and 36,000 audio sound bites. Also includes 340,000 graphics images, including maps, graphs, charts, logos, flags and more. Coverage: 1826-present.
Note: Limited to 5 simultaneous users.