Photography Database is a new implementation and major extension of work done by editors Andrew Eskind and Greg Drake while at George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, beginning in the 1980s. It provides basic factual information about more than 100,000 photographers, as well as public photographic collections, commercial galleries, photographic exhibitions, and citations to the many published sources used to compile the data. The scope is international, and the time frame runs from the beginnings of photography to contemporary. Data is continually updated -- actively tracking photographer obituaries, new and expanding collections, exhibitions, galleries, reviews, catalogs, and reference literature. At the time of writing it shows 11,500 exhibitions from 1840, 108,450 photographer obituaries.
The database is both a useful reference too and provides an opportunity to analyse disparate data which it brings together to provide new insights in to how the work of photographers has been exhibited. It has been added to the resources at the bottom of the home page.
Photography Database
Basic Biographical Information about Photographers, Public Photography Collections and Their Photographic Exhibitions
Access here: https://photographydatabase.org/
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