Finding Images: Photography

Art Photo Index (API) is a visual index of important art and documentary photographers, their images and their websites from throughout the world. The photographers included in Art Photo Index have been selected as a result of their accomplishments in the art or documentary photography field.

Find photo essays, slideshows, and featured galleries of images. Includes journalism photography and user-generated content.

An annual contest by the National Press Photographers Association that showcases exemplary photo, video, and web site work. You can browse past winners by category (Best Photojournalism of the Year, Best Published Picture Story, etc.) but you cannot search by picture content or even by photographer name.

A photo blog created by a select group of picture editors of The Boston Globe. Highlights high-quality, amazing imagery, with a focus on current events. The large-format photos are a pleasure to review.

Photo essays, video, audio, and more from Human Rights Watch, an independent organization dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people.

Magnum Photos represents some of the world’s most renowned photographers,

News21 is a program of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation that is helping to change the way journalism is taught in the U.S. and train a new generation of journalists capable of reshaping the news industry. It is headquartered at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. The site includes the results of national investigations conducted by students.

Search 1.56 million historic newspaper photos (1900-1963).

The photographic slideshows with audio accompaniment are the strength of the New York Times multimedia section. Also find up-to-the minute coverage of news and sports stories.

Polar Inertia is a free resource for ongoing research into the networks and patterns that define the contemporary city, featuring photo essays of city structures from the esoteric to the sublime.

A website that hosts online exhibits of documentary photography concerned with the human condition.

Photos and videos from the Washington Post.