Penn State University Libraries - News: Photographs

Magazine Photos

Print

• News photographer (National Press Photographers Association)
• World press photo Haagse Gemeentemuseum (Annual volume)

Websites

• UPI.com
  
  • Collections of UPI news photos
• Life Photo Archive (via Google)
  
  • Mostly unpublished photographs from the 1750s to today
• The Digital Journalist
  • Monthly web magazine edited and published by Dirck Halstead

Newspaper Photos

Use NewsCAT to identify which newspapers we also own on microfilm in the University Libraries.

Websites

• Page One Today
  • Weekday newspaper front pages from somewhere around the world
  • Highlighted by David Shedden, Library Director of the Poynter Institute
    
• Today's Front Pages from the Newseum
  • More than 750 front pages from 70 countries in digital format, updated daily
  • Provides links to each newspaper's website
  • Archival front pages of major recent world events or notable people such as Senator Kennedy, Walter Cronkite and President Obama's first days in office
    
• Newspaper Collection 
  
  • News and Microforms Library to locate recently published photos, browse issues in nearly 75 newspapers

Websites

• BBC News: In Pictures
  • Provides the 'Day In Pictures' 
    
  • Gives prominence to world news, sport and weather along with the BBC's international radio and TV services
    
• Pictoral Journalism (Library of Congress)
  • Several premiere archives of pictorial journalism
  • Includes several thousand drawings by Civil War artist-correspondents
  • Studio archives of several early news photographic agencies
  • Bain News Service and the National Photo Company
  • Morgues of such publications as Look magazine, the New York World Telegram and Sun, and U.S.News and World Report
• New York World Telegram and Sun (1890s-1967)
  
• Reuters Pictures
  • Global information company
  • Provides information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets 
    
  • Includes up-to-the-minute news photographs
    
• 10 x 10
  • "Top 100" news photos for a given time period (starting with 2004)
  • Can be limited to year, month, day, and hour
• Catalogue of Photographs
  • British Library holdings
    
  • Detailed searchable database for locating photographs, photographically-illustrated books and texts relating to photography

If you are looking for articles (in newspapers or magazines) about controversial news photos, use any of these databases to locate articles:

• Academic Search Complete
  • Multi-disciplinary database with full-text periodicals, trade publications and peer-reviewed journals
  • Includes monographs (books), reports, and conference proceedings
  • Many articles in PDF format
    
• Communication and Mass Media Complete
  • Comprehensive resource of scholarly journals and other periodicals related to communications and mass media, most containing full-text articles
  • Good source of information on communication issues on a worldwide scale, from a variety of publishers, research institutions and information sources
  • Directs users to location of full-text articles, or prompts for articles that can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan

Suggested Keywords

• photography
• photo journalism
• news media
• newspaper
• photo manipulation
• embedded journalism
• media coverage
• journalism ethics

Check the CAT for resources such as these:

• Shooting under fire: the world of war photographer, Howe, Peter (2002)
• Body horror: photojournalism, catastrophe, and war, John Taylor (1998)
• Landscapes of the Civil War: newly discovered photographs from the Medford Historical Society
• War photographer [videorecording]
• All the mighty world: the photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860, Gordon Baldwin (2004)
• Roger Fenton, photographer of the 1850s: [exhibition] Hayward Gallery, London, 4 February to 17 April 1988, Roger Fenton and Hayward Gallery (1988)
• Shoot First and ask questions later: media coverage of the 2003 Iraq War, Justin Lewis (2006)
  
• NPR.org also has an article about news photography entitled, An Indelible Image of War, 40 Years Later.

• Teaching Online Journalism  (blog by Mindy McAdams, journalist and journalism educator)
  
  • 10 Rules for Visual Storytelling
• LENS Photography, Video and Visual Journalism (photography blog of the New York Times)
  • Presents finest and interesting examples of photographs, videos and slide shows
  • Showcases NYT photographers and other newspapers, magazines, news and picture agencies