The California Museum of Photography at the University of California-Riverside, (last mentioned in the May 30, 2000 Scout Report for Social Sciences) is a site worth visiting again and again; there is always something new to look at in a variety of areas: photography history, California lifestyle and culture, fine art photography, and photo journalism. The stereograph show, created in celebration...

Born in New York City in 1882, Doris Ulmann was a graduate of the school of the Ethical Culture Society, a socially liberal organization that was know for championing individual worth regardless of ethnic background or economic condition. Over her life, Ulmann documented the rural people of the American South and also created a series of prominent intellectuals of the day, including John Dewey and...

UNESCO offers this database of over 10,000 images, dating back to 1946, depicting subjects related to UNESCO's activities: education, food relief, and preserving culture. The search interface provides boxes for users to enter subject and keyword terms as free text, while region, country, place, theme, year or photographer can be selected from pull down menus. Combining years with other terms...

At this website, visitors can enjoy selected digitized images from the collections of St. Andrews University Library, which, in its own words, "holds one of the largest and most important collections of historic photography in Scotland", due in part to the friendship between Sir David Brewster (Principal at St Andrews from 1838 to 1859) and pioneering photographer William Henry Fox Talbot. The...

Panoramic photographs that immerse their audience in a landscape have been in vogue throughout the history of photographic enterprises. With this in mind, users should not be surprised to learn of the existence of the Virtual Sweden website. Established by Jonas Carlson in 2003, the site contains 360 degree panoramic images taken by Carlson from a wide variety of locales across the globe. Of...

Often the true legacy of an artist goes unappreciated until after they pass away, and the case of artist Vivian Maier is a rather intriguing story. Maier lived in Chicago, and from the 1950s to the 1990s, she took well over 100,000 photographs of the city landscape and its denizens. Just after her death in 2009, John Maloof found her collection of negatives at a furniture and antiques auction. The...

The latest release from the Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory Project (last reviewed in the April 30, 1999 Scout Report) showcases the work of writer-photographer William P. Gottlieb. Working for the Washington Post, Down Beat magazine, and Record Changer, Gottlieb photographed and interviewed numerous prominent jazz musicians in Washington, D.C. and New York City between 1938 and 1948,...

An online resource promoting photography and the digital arts, Zonezero aims to serve as a gathering place for image artists and aficionados of all kinds. While several elements of Zonezero are highly commercialized, directly linking to enterprises marketing to photographers and other consumers of high-end electronics, most of the site could be valuable to anyone interested in learning more about...