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Smithsonian Photographic Archive
The Smithsonian institution's association of 16 outstandinging online museums and galleries now presents great parts of its photograph exhibits online. The palette of motifs is mixed and varied: Pacific sea snakes, fireworks from the Fourth of July, cherry blossoms and butterflies, headdresses of Kayapo Red Indians from Brazil, parades and dinosaurs - indeed you should find an exbitit to suit your interest. And a search function is available too.
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Time Life Archive
The Time Life archive offers here a huge selection of photographs surrounded by essays and reports. The palette of topics is varied: Hiroshima and the war, Halloween and OSCAR winners. Users can admire a lot of famous and already published photographs. It's a pity, though, that the server is visited so intensively and that download times are so long.
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Detroit Publishing Company
Users will find photographs from the years 1890 to 1920 at this site - 25,000 or maybe even more. Detroit Publishing offers a search and browse feature too. Motifs and topics are really mixed and varied. The index includes: miners and railroad stops, Chopin and Alexander von Humboldt, yacht ports and industry, wheelchairs and leopards.
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American Memory
American Memory is a very large site of the Library of Congress, including a dozen or more single exhibits, all of them dealing with the culture and history of the American nation. Photographs from the American Civil War are offered (audio and video too), early Daguerreotypes and images from the early days of the movies, 1897-1916.
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Black Mirages
Black Mirages has some thousand visitors each day. Maybe it's less the high aesthetic quality of the photos presented than the motifs that attract them: black nudes. But the works presented for example in the "Ebony Gallery" are not at all pornographic. They impart an erotic feeling without question, but most of all they are of fascinating quality. Alain Paris, who presents this site, is not a photographer but, as he is pleased to say, he "goes in for photography". A really great photo site.
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George Eastman House
The George Eastman House features the history of photography. The timetable starts with the 5th century and an explanation of the optical principles of the camera obscura and it ends with the moon-landing and the digital camera. About 30 photographs illustrate the chronology. Furthermore, users will find some special exhibits - all of interest to hobby photographers and pros.
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German Historical Museum (Berlin)
The German Historical Museum in Berlin offers many special exhibitions, and most of them present (historical) photographies. Currently you'll find: the demonstration in Berlin on 4 November 1989, pictures and reports on German history, photographs of the 50s and the "Wirtschaftswunder", Europe in the age of the dictators (1930-1945). Don't miss two thorough web exhibitions worth a visit: "End and Beginning" - shows photographs just prior to the end of World War II , "Visible Time" is an exbitit with works by photographer Michael Ruetz, including historical pictures, among other things: Rudi Dutschke, the Prague spring, East Germany in the sixties and seventies.
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