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Creating Photo Essays for the Web. Excerpt from interview with Cynthia Carris, picture editor for the online edition of Newsweek, 1996. In this very short passage, Carris gives some insight into the challenges facing editors assembling online photo essays. http://www.cyberbohemia.com/Pages/Bridgepages/cynthiacarris.htm
Lauren Greenfield, Fast Forward. ZoneZero Photo essay. In the web version of her print photoessay, Fast Forward: Growing Up in the Shadow of Hollywood, Greenfield presents an engaging argument about the youth culture of Los Angeles. http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/lauren2/default.html
. Girl Culture. Time.com photo essay. In this on-line adaptation of her book-length photo essay, Greenfield explores the sometimes disturbing culture of American girls. http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/girlculture/
Matthew Levy, A Rescue Workers Chronicle. In this online photo essay, rescue worker Levy uses words and images to capture his experiences as one of the first on the scene of the World Trade Center collapse on September 11th. http://www.umbc.edu/window/levy.html
Life Magazine photoessays. A series of brief photo essays generated from compilations of photographs on different themes from various issues of the magazine. Also look at to the Features link for additional photo essays. http://www.life.com/Life/classicpictures/
MSNBC.com: Picture Stories. On this constantly updated site, you can thematically organized picture stories, on-line photo essays that explore issues such as Ronald Reagans funeral and political unrest in Iraq. <http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3251645/>
Newsweek.coms Photo Galleries: This site contains a variety of photographic images, from powerful individual photos to series of images, structured as on-line photo essays, complete with audio component. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3044865/site/newsweek/
The Musarium: This Website is devoted to the connection between photography and storytelling and contains several powerful features, images that can be viewed in slideshow format or as flash animations with voice over. http://www.musarium.com/
Photo essays. Public Culture. This page contains A collection of excerpts from various photoessays that have been published in Public Culture as well as full citation references. http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-pub-cult/photo/photoessay.html
Picture Stories. This collection of electronic photo essays combines audio and visual rhetoric to produce effective multimedia documentaries. http://www.picturestories.umn.edu/
Reportage Archive. An e-zine devoted to photojournalism, Reportage houses a useful archive of past picture stories. http://www.reportage.org/Archive/archive.html
Shattered: 9/11/2001. This powerful Time.com photoessay presents a stirring perspective on the events of September 11th, 2001. http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/
Eugene Smith, The Country Doctor. This series of links contains Smiths 1948 Life photoessay, adapted for the Internet. http://www.life.com/Life/essay/country_doctor/index.html
Time Magazine Person of the Year: A Photohistory. This photoessay of Person of the Year covers is arranged thematically, including categories such as Notorious Leaders, Innovators and Adventurers, and Women. http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/archive/photohistory/
Time.com: Photoessays. This collection of on-line photo essays touches on a range of topics, from political issues such as the hunt for Saddam Hussein, to social issues, such as the rise of female tennis players. http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/
The White House Photo Essays. This site contains photo essays featuring President George. W. Bush. http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gallery/photoessay/
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