Photography

American Photography: A Century of Images
Sponsored by Kodak, this site supports the PBS video. The Features section includes essays on photography as art, photography and war, manipulation/distortion of images, presidential image-making, advertising and persuasion, social change, and cultural identity. The Image Lab presents additional exploration of photography as a communications medium.

Beginning Photography for Student Publications
Students gain the necessary skills to shoot effective photos and to process prints suitable for use in student publications by photographing other students. This project used a combination of demonstrations, group discussions, lectures, slide shows, assignments, and lab work.

The Candid Camera: Creating Photo Essays That Keep It Real
In this lesson plan from the New York Times, "will consider the contexts in which photographs are taken and create original photo essays on topics of their choice."

The Decisive Moment: Capturing Life through Photography
Students read an article and view a slide show of the photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson, famous for capturing the "decisive moment." They establish criteria for evaluating photos, take photos capturing decisive moments, and critique their own and others' photos.

Documentary Portraiture
Photographer Tom Chambers discusses samples of his work.

Communication Through Photography
Designed for grade 8, students write a caption and an article to go with a newspaper photograph.

Helios: Photography Online
A collection of outstanding photographs sponsored by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Includes links to other excellent collections of photography.

Kodak: Taking Great Pictures
Top 10 techniques, problem picture remedies, picture-taking tips, online tutorials, other resources.

Lesson Plan Unit: Photojournalism
Lesson plans using online resources of the New York Times. Lessons change from time to time.

Musarium: Portraits by Steve McCurry
McCurry may be best known for his photo of a young Afghan woman on the cover of National Geographic. Here is an online gallery of his work, including video and audio clips.

National Press Photographers Association
Contests, scholarships, and other resources for members.

Photo.net
An online learning community of people improving their photography expertise, including a photo of the week, galleries, equipment review, and a Question and Answer forum.

Photo-Seminars.com
A variety of free online lessons to improve photography.

Photo Essays
Part of Time magazine's Web site, this page links to photo essays by their photographers, including pictures of the week.

Photo Techniques and Suggestions
15 tips from photographer Dan Marin.

Photojournalism: A Record of War
Students use photos from the American Memory collection to explore techniques, rationale, and bias in war photos.

Presenting Our School
Students become photojournalists and learn something about their school and themselves. Designed for grades 8, 9.

Sim-Cam
A terrific site to help students understand the relationship among f-stop, shutter speed, and the final photo.

Weegee's World
A collection of photographs by Arthur Fellig, aka Weegee.

W. Eugene Smith: Photojournalism and Compassion
Standards-based interdisciplinary lesson designed for grades 9-12. Students learn about Smith's compassion for the human race through his work during WW2, examine W. Eugene Smith's photo-essays, build a pinhole camera, and create their own photo-essay.