Honestly, many times I don’t even look at photographs for inspiration, I look at paintings and other art. It’s not like I actively avoid photography or anything, but when I got to a n art museum, I look at everything.

Unsplash.com, and certain fine arts galleries on ig. Besides that i agree with u/Peoito_Pepito on books.

I don’t look to social media for inspiration.

I occasionally watch YouTube videos for information to refresh my knowledge or learn new things in different areas of photography that I generally don’t shoot. Plenty of the inspiration with learning.

Plus I have a list of over twenty sites where I live to take images on a wide variety of subjects, both day and night.

I run with the Nike slogan “Just do it.”

I love going to the local library and just randomly pulling photo books off the shelves to look at. I never know what I’m going to see (aside from Ansel Adams, it’s inescapable) and it’s always interesting.

Go to Dashwood Books in NoHo (https://www.dashwoodbooks.com)

I saw in another comment you are in NY. Aside from what others have already suggested, you could browse in the Taschen book store or the Kinokuniya book store. They both have tons of photo related stuff to look through. Also, try going to a magazine store, there’s usually tons of photography themed magazines to look through. You could also just google something like photography galleries NYC & go check out random galleries. If you are in NYC, that is basically the epicenter of America to view photography, so you really have no need for social media to inspire you.

I generally use all sorts of media to find inspriation. Books, YouTube, Instagram (only because I found photographers I like to follow the recommendations aren’t that great. Technically fine but creatively a bit bland), word of mouth, flickr, friends who do photography

Get a Readily subscription. Here in the UK it is £8 a month. That will give you access to photography magazines from across the world, plus their back issues.

500px editors choice is usually pretty solid

I enjoy using vero for more than a year now. ☺️ better than instagram but not that popular

There’s a series of links in the sidebar for agencies, galleries, book publishers, etc.

Start there.

Have you read On Photography by Susan Sontag?

If not, it’s a great analysis of how photography came to dominate our visual culture in a very short space of time, and fundamentally changed the way we see. Even though it was written in 1977, her observations feel absolutely applicable to the feeling of Instagram overload. She names a lot of great photographers, and talks pretty insightfully about the reasons people take photographs, the unique things they can do, and their relationship to the truth. That extra context really helped me appreciate their work.

Walk into big book store and go to photobooks sections, also browse through the high-end magazines that relate to the subject you need inspiration for.

I use this a lot. There are really good shots in there, occasionally bad ones. But it’s helped me through some blocks before.

If you have a local used book store see if they have any used national geographic books/magazines. They put out a lot of hard cover photo books for years and they are usually inexpensive and personally seeing an image in print is much better than on a screen.

500px used to be pretty good I am not sure how it is anymore.

Colossal has a nice featured photography section here that I really like and it has a wider variety than some other photography blogs.

If you want good photography by amateurs vs. professionals I also like looking at the winners of https://www.dpchallenge.com/ competitions.