Like many people, I often go first to the Internet to find out whether a certain disease-causing organism is a bacteria or a virus, how much I should be paying for an appliance, who said what famous sentence, or which peppers are mild and which are deathly. I wanted to find some examples of early photography and came across Masters of Photography, a gallery of images, information, and links for more than 60 photographers. Some of them are familiar names to me (Ansel Adams, Arnold Newman, Margaret Bourke-White, and Sebastiao Salgado), others have a style or individual images I recognize, and there are some famous photographers who are not represented; maybe this is more about copyright issues or artists’ permission problems rather than personal preference on the part of the compiler of the site. I enjoy looking at the work of photographers who were pioneers or who recorded a specific era or topic (e.g., Jacques-Henri Lartigue) and those whose works display a unique perspective (e.g., Robert Doisneau). In the latter case, a lot of his images seem to be what some people call “grab” shots, captured by hanging around in the street watching for something to happen rather than posing people or taking a picture of some stationary object. How did Doisneau manage to include so much in each picture, and such funny juxtapositions of events to boot? Sometimes the images give me ideas for self-assignment; most of the time they just humble me. [The image accompanying this entry is from the Masters of Photography site: Robert Doisneau, Square du Vert-Galant, 1950.]