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Photography Resources  Western Washington University Libraries Margaret Fast, Librarian for Art

Books in the Library
Search the Library Catalog for books, exhibition catalogs, or videos relating to photography. You may search using Keyword, which searches words in the title, subject, or content.  Combine terms such as photographers and women, photographers and biography, photography and landscape, etc.  For a more specific focus, search by Subject, which uses the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Some suggested subject terms are listed below.

Catalog Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

art and photography
cinematography
color photography
daguerreotype
documentary photography
nature photography
photographers
  See also: Women photographers,
photography (subdivides into 34 subject categories)
photography, artistic
       photography, artistic catalogs
       photography, artistic exhibitions
       See also: dance photography, glamour photography, photography close-up,
                      photography abstract, still-life photography
pictorialism (Photography Movement)
portrait photography

Photography: A Critical Introduction / TR145.P48 2000
Includes bibliographical references and index.   Contents include: Thinking about photography: debates, historically and now; Surveyors and surveyed: photography out and about; 'Sweet it is to scan ... ': personal photographs and popular photography; Constructions of illusion: photography and commodity culture; The subject as object: photography and the human body; On and beyond the white walls: photography as art; Photography in the age of electronic imaging.

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Search for articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers, by using print and electronic indexes.  Once you have collected your citations, check our Library Catalog for the location and call number of the journals.  Some databases provide full-text articles.

• Art Index online  1984- .
  Art Index provides international indexing for contemporary art, art history, architecture, archaeology, computers in art, crafts, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, photography, textiles, and related fields. Coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as a selection of periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Reproductions of works of art appearing in periodicals are also indexed.  In print, (1929-1994) located in Periodicals Wilson 1E N1.A59.
   
• Art & Humanities Citation Index Online (1995-) Ref.  AI3.A77(1976- )

A multidisciplinary index to literature of the arts and humanities searched in a variety of ways through the subject, source, and citation indexes.
 
• Artbibliographies Modern Print (1969-1982) (LOMA 1969-71) Wilson 5 East  N 6480.A794
  Provides abstracts of books, exhibition catalogs and periodical articles dealing with art and design throughout the world from 800 to the present.
   
• Bibliography of the History of Art  (1973 - )

The Bibliography of the History of Art covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present, indexing and abstracting art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. The Bibliography of the History of Art includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art). Updated quarterly.
 
• EBSCO - Academic Search Complete
  Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.

• Graphics Atlas
  "Graphics Atlas is a new online resource that brings sophisticated print identification and characteristic exploration tools to archivists, curators, historians, collectors, conservators, educators, and the general public. The Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology began initial development of this resource in 2006."
  
• International Index to Periodicals 1920-1955, Ref. AI 3.R49.

• New York Times Index   Print 1851-  Wilson 2W|Microform Index  AI21 .N48

The newspaper [microfilm] AN2 .N44, and print index are located in Media Collections.
 
• Global NewsBank   (1996-)

• Oxford Art Online
  Includes full-text of Grove Art Online with linked images, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
   
• Poole’s Index  to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) Ref. AI 3.P7

19th century periodicals indexed alphabetically by subject, author, and title.  

•  Readers Guide to Periodical Literature: Nineteenth Century 1890-1899  Ref.AI3 .N714 1944

• Readers Guide to Periodical Literature, Ref. AI 3.R4, 1900  to date

• Reader's Guide Retrospective  (1890-1982) (online)

• Times (London) Wilson 2W|Microform Index  AI21.T35 “The Times of London” newspaper from 1784 to the present AN4.T54 and its index are located in Media Collections.

• World Biographical Dictionary of Artists (CD-ROM) Ref.
  N40.I59 1995
Data is accessible by name, profession, time, geographical names, and source.

Access World News - U.S.: Go to the United States Map
Access World News provides extensive coverage at local, state, regional, national and international levels. This fully searchable Web-based resource features the vast majority of U.S. newspapers by circulation, along with almost one thousand local and regional titles, the majority of which are unavailable elsewhere.

Access World News: Go to the World Map
Access World News provides extensive coverage at local, state, regional, national and international levels.

EBSCO - Newspaper Source
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for 35 national (U.S.) & international newspapers.

Global NewsBank  (online with full-text articles)

• American Photographer  v.12 no.3 1984-v.23 1989. / Wilson 5W   TR1 .A563 (continued by: American Photo)
• American Photo v.1 1990-  / Wilson 5W   TR1 .A563
• Aperture   no.78 1977- .  / TR 1.A62
• Art On Paper  v.3 n.3 1999- .  / Wilson 5 East  NE 1.A73
• The British Journal of Photography   / Books Oversize  TR 1.B83 became: Photo: the annual of the British Journal of Photography  1992-1994.  Books- Oversize TR1 .B83
• Camera v.43 1964-v.60 1981.  / Wilson 1 East TR1 .C22 v.43
• Creative Camera  no.207 1982-  Wilson 5 West  TR640
• DPICT: The New Magazine of Camera Culture  / n.1 2000-  / Wilson 5W TR640 .D68
• Doubletake  v.4 n.3 1998-.  / Wilson 1West AP 1.D68
• Modern Photography v.39 n.5 1975-v.53 n.7 1989 (con't by  Popular Photography v.36, no.2, 1955- . )TR 1.P8845
• New York Times, and NYT Index  1857 to the present, are located in Media Collections / [microfilm] AN2 .N44
• Popular Photography  1955-  / Wilson 5 West  TR 1.P8845
• Times (London)   and Index 1785 to the present, located in Media Collections [microfilm]AN4 .T54
• U.S. Camera  1940-48;  / Wilson 4W Books-Oversize TR 1.U5
• U.S. Camera & Travel 1964-68  / Wilson 1 East,  TR1 .U52  became Travel & Leisure 1971-1978

EJournals (All sites listed have at least some articles, digital images to view, links, etc.  Some may require a subscription to view the entire site).

• American Photojournal
• Apogee
• British Journal of Photography
• Camera Arts: The Art and Craft of Photography  (requires subscription, but has some articles & images to view)
• The Digital Journalist  "a web magazine devoted to photography and photojournalism which makes use of RealAudio commentary and QuickTime video. Included are photo documentaries, columns by photo journalists, and featured camera reviews. Previous issues can be accessed and links to other sites are provided."
• EOS - "Presented by Canon as a supplement to their print magazine. Get news on new products as well as upcoming seminars, contests, and exhibitions."
• Foto8
• Journal of Contemporary Photography
• Life Magazine Images
• Sight /Portfolios: "In-depth looks at the work of some excellent art, commercial and editorial photographers."

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Refer to the guide "How to locate information about an artist" for detailed sources and examples specific to the Western Libraries.  Search also indexes, databases, newspapers, as well as web resources for sources and full-text biographical information. Search by Library Catalog subject heading Photographers-- United States-- Biography  for additional titles.

• Alfred Stieglitz   (PBS American Masters series)
   
• American Women Photographers:  A Selected andAnnotated Bibliography.  Ref. TR139.K74 1999

• The Art of French Calotype: With A Critical Dictionary of Photographers, 1845-1870.   Ref.  TR 71.J35 1983

• BGMI Biography & Genealogy Master Index  Online Database  (campus access) indexes current and retrospective biographical dictionaries. Check our Library Catalog for holdings.

• Contemporary Photographers.   Ref. TR 139.C66 1982;  Ref. TR 139.C664 1995

• Dictionary of American Art.  Ref. N 6505.B34 1979

Approximately 650 major American painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers including biographical entries
emphasizing artistic achievement and stylistic development.  Topics relating to art in the United States from the 16th century to the present are also included.

• Encyclopedia of Visual Art.   2 vols. Ref. N 25.E53

A well illustrated work by specialists covering from paleolithic to the present time.  Vol. l is entitled History of Art; Vol. 2 is A Biographical Dictionary of Artists.  Arranged historically and by the art of the cultures.

• A History of Women Photographers.  Ref. TR 139.R67 2000

• International Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2 vols. Ref. N 40.I55 1990

Volume 1 lists artists from the 13th to the 20th century alphabetically: providing facts of artists careers, collections of their works, bibliographies and critical essays on their works. Volume 2 discusses 500 individual works of art arranged
chronologically.

• Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators.   Ref. TR 139.B767

• Reflections In Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present.  Ref. TR 23.W55 2000

• World Biographical Dictionary of Artists (CD-ROM) Ref. N40.I59 1995 contains information on 270,000 artists, based on materials compiled for the Theime-Becker, Vollmer, and the first 8 volumes of Allgemeines Kunstlerlexicon. Data is accessible by name, profession, time, geographical names, and source.

Websites
Women in Photography: International Archive
Photographers of the FSA: Selected Portraits

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Specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias relating to art, and more specifically to photography, define & describe the terminology and provide an overview of the history of photography.

• Digital Imaging Dictionary / Ref. TA1507.G79 1998
• Dictionary of Photography and Digital Imaging: the essential reference for the modern photographer / Ref. TR9.A53 2002
• Early Photographs and Early Photographers: a survey in dictionary form / Ref. TR139.M3
• Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography / Ref. TR9.H25 2008 2 vols.
• Encyclopedia of Photography / TR9.I24 1984
• Encyclopedia of Practical Photography /  Ref. TR9.A46 1977
• Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography / Ref. TR642.E5 2006 3 vols.
• The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography / Ref.  TR9.F6 1993
• Illustrated Dictionary of Photography / Ref. TR9.I36 1972
• The Illustrated Digital Imaging Dictionary / Ref. TA1509.G76 1998
• Looking at Photographs:  A Guide to Technical Terms / Ref. TR9.B35 1991
• The Oxford Companion to the Photograph/ Ref. TR9.O94 2005
• The Pictorial Cyclopedia of Photography /  Ref. TR9.F62 1968
• Photography / Ref. TR146.W27 2002
• Photography: A Cultural History / Ref. TR15.M273 2002
• Photography: An Illustrated History / TR15 .S23 2002
• The Photography Encyclopedia / Ref. TR9.M39 1999
• A World History of Photography / Ref. TR15.R67 1997

• Photographer's Market / Ref.TR 12.P48 (current year)
• Photographer's Publishing Handbook /  Ref. TR 690.D28 1991

WWU
Wilson Library (Western Washington University) Campus History Collection
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies

Guides to Collections

• After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography: Selections from the Monsen Collection / Oversize TR 645.S43 B78 1994
• The American Image: Photographs from The National Archives, 1860-1960 / Oversize E 68.U565 1979
• American Photography, 1890-1965, from The Museum of Modern Art / TR 645.N72 M876 1995
• Art In Time. "Index To All The Pictures In the Art Section of Time Magazine" / N  7225.H38 1970
• Art Information on the Internet /Ref. N59.J66
• French Daguerreotypes / TR 365.B82 1989
• Guide to Photographic Collections at the Smithsonian Institution / Q 11.S79 1989
• Guide to the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian / GN 17.N37 1992
• Index to Art Reproductions in Books /   N 7525.H48 1974
• Photographs: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln / TR 650.S43
• Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the National Archives /Gov Information  AE 1.102:P 58
• Washingtoniana: Photographs: Collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress/ F 195.L66 1989

American Memory   Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Select "Performing Arts" and enter "photography" in the search box.

Edward Curtis' North American Indian

The Daguerreian Society

Documenting America: Photographic Series of the Farm Security Office and the Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress

International Center of Photography

Photo Study Collection Database  Getty Research Institute

Photographic Libraries  Online library of Web sites related to all aspects of photography, graphics, and design

Smithsonian Institute:  Photography  Selected links to sites hosted by Smithsonian Institution museums and organizations.

• The American Museum of Photography
• California Museum of Photography Photography Collections  The museum promotes understanding of photography and related media through collection, research, exhibition, and instruction. The collection includes the world's largest, most complete holding of vintage stereographs; a 10,000-item collection of cameras and viewing devices; and images by over 1000 photographers, both contemporary and historical.
• Davison Art Center (Wesleyan University)  Photographs before 1900, Photographs 1900-1950,  Photographs after 1950
• International Photo Gallery Project
• Museum of Modern Art - photography
• Museum of Photographic Art
• National Gallery of Art
• Bibliography of StereoscopyThis web page contains two bibliographies 1. English-Language Books on Stereoscopy--1853 to 1986,  2.  Bibliography and Activities, by H. A. Layer.

• The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography / TR642 .C66 1989
• The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography / TR642 .C74 1990
• Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images / TR642 .B365 2006
• Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography From the 1850s to the Present / TR 187.I45 1996
• Inside the photograph : writings on twentieth-century photography / TR 185.B86 2006
• Light matters : writings on photography / TR185 . G65 2005
• Photography Speaks II: From the Chrysler Museum Collection: 70 Photographers On Their Art / TR 185.P53 1995
• Roland Barthes on Photography: The Critical Tradition In Perspective  / TR 183.S43 1997
• Photography Books Index: A Subject Guide To Photo Anthologies / Ref. TR 199.M67

       Included photographers & titles of their works, a subject index; and portraits.
• The Working Press of the Nation.  Feature Writers, Photographers & Professional Speakers Directory [v. 4] /Ref. PN 4875.W62  current year

• An American Century of Photography:  From Dry-plate To Digital / TR 23.H35 1995
• Burning With Desire:  The Conception of Photography / TR 15.B37 1997
• Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures /  Oversize  TR 250.C63
• The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography / TR 642.C66 1989
• The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
• Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839-1960 / Oversize  TR 650.G385 1962
• Daguerrian Society and the Daguerreotype
• The Daguerreotype In America /  Oversize TR 365.N4 1976
• First Photographs: People, Places, and Phenomena As Captured For The First Time By The Camera /  Oversize TR 147.B92
• The History of Photography:  A Bibliography of Books / Ref. TR 15.R66 1989
• The History of Photography From the Camera Obscura to the Beginning  of the Modern Era  / Oversize  TR 15.G37 1969
• The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present New York: Museum of Modern Art /  Oversize  TR 15.N47 1982
• The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day /  TR 15.N47 1978
• L. J. M. Daguerre (1787-1851), the World's First Photographer /   TR 140.D3 G47   1956
• Latent Image; The Discovery of Photography /  Q 111 .S3 v.54
• The Linked Ring: The Secession Movement In Photography in Britain, 1892-1910 / Oversize  TR 57 .H37 1979
• Masters of Early Travel Photography /   Oversize TR 790.F313 1983
• Photography's Antiquarian Avant-garde: The New Wave in Old Processes / TR642 .R493 2002
• The Origins of Photojournalism in America / TR 820.C357 1992
• The Origins of Photography / Oversize  TR 15.G37 1982
• Paper and Light:  The Calotype in France and Great Britain, 1839-1870 / Oversize TR 395.B74 1984
• The Painter And The Photograph; From Delacroix To Warhol /  Oversize  N 72.P5 C6 1972
• The Picture History of Photography, From the Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day  /TR 15.P55 1969
• The Photograph [Oxford History of Art Series] / TR 15.C566 1997
• The Photograph: A Social History [The Era of the Photograph] / Oversize TR 15.B6613 1966
• Photographers of the Farm Security Administration: An Annotated Bibliography, 1930-1980 /  Ref. TR 820.5.D5 1983
• Photography: A Cultural History.  Ref. TR15 .M273 2002
• Photography: Essays & Images: Illustrated Readings in the History of Photography / Oversize TR 185.P48
• Photography, History Of An Art  / Oversize  TR 15.D23713 1982
• Photography and Its Critics: A Cultural History, 1839-1900  / TR 187.M37 1997
• Photography in the 20th Century / TR 642.T39
• The Pre-Raphaelite Camera: Aspects of Victorian Photography /  Oversize  TR 652.B37 1985
• Reflections In Black:  A History of Black photographers, 1840 to the Present / Oversize TR23.W55 2000
• Seizing the Light: A History of Photography / TR15.H557 2000
• Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanization, 1839-1915 / TR 820.5.H33 1984
• Treasures of the Royal Photographic Society, 1839-1919  / Oversize TR 6.G72 L66
• A World History of Photography / Ref. TR 15.R67 1997

  

• The Amateur Photographer's Handbook /  TR 146.A464  1973
• Basic Photo / TR 145.A4
• The Body and the Lens: Photography 1839 to the Present / TR 642.P85 1995
• The Darkroom Handbook /  TR 287.L35 1981
• Digital Photography Review - Glossary
• The Elements of Landscape: A Photographic Handbook For Artists / TR 660.B75 1968 Oversize
• The Focal Handbook of Commercial Photography /   TR 581.K663 1998
• A Guide to Early Photographic Processes    / Oversize TR 350.C63 1983
• The keepers of light : a history & working guide to early photographic processes / TR330 .C68
• Light-sensitive systems; chemistry and application of nonsilver halide photographic processes.  / TR350 .K65
• The Master Guide to Photography / Ref. TR 150.L364 1982
• Neblette's Handbook of Photography and Reprography / Ref. TR 145.N4 1977
• Photo Manipulation : A Surrealistic Perspective of the Multiple Image in Photography / Oversize LD5778.9 .R317
• Photographic Lab Handbook  / Ref. TR 2887.C38 1979
• Photography: A Critical Introduction / TR 145.P48 2000
• Photography: Art and Technique / TR 145.B54
• Photography, A Handbook of History, Materials, and Processes /  TR 146.S93 1981
• The Photography Handbook / TR 145 .W785 1999
• Sam Haskins Photo Graphics / Oversize TR 675.H394 1980
• The 35mm Handbook: A Complete Course From Basic Techniques to Professional Applications /  TR 262.F7. 1980

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