Photo archive, short for photographs archive or photographic archive, can refer to
- any archive of stock photography
- any of various photograph collections, including
- Bettmann Archive, owned by Corbis
- Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive in California
- National Photographic Archive in Dublin, Ireland
- New England Historic Photographs Archive in Vermont
- Notman Photographic Archives at the McCord Museum in Montreal, Canada
- Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy
- Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in The Hague, The Netherlands
- Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive in New York, New York
- Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in Florence, Italy
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—John Berger (b. 1926)
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