Photography Research Guide

Background Information Sources

Available in the Library's reference area:

Looking at photographs: a guide to technical terms

REF 770.3 B181l

The Photography Encyclopedia

REF 770.3 M134p

A World History of Photography

REF 770.9 R813w

Original sources: Art and Archives at the Center …

REF 770.92 U588o

Contemporary Photographers

REF 770.922 C761

 

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using keywords, or visit the library’s stacks and browse call numbers:

770-  (photography)

778-  (techniques and types of photography)

779-  (photographs and photographers)

 

Also check the NC shelves (far right) for non-circulating books in the same call number ranges.

 

Library Databases (Newspaper & Journal articles)

Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications.

 

ARTstor: Contains approximately 300,000 images of art, architecture and archeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods

 

InfoTrac—Expanded Academic: Includes research, reviews, full-text articles

 

InfoTrac Complete: Access to 38 databases for multi-disciplinary research, many providing full-text articles.

 

JSTOR: An electronic archive of full-text articles from Arts & Humanities journals.

 

Project Muse: Scholarly, full-text articles in the arts and humanities.

 

Web Resources

History of Photography from beginnings to 1920s: a useful starting-off point for students preparing for courses which include brief study of the history of photography.
 

American Museum of Photography: Online exhibits, historical information, interesting tidbits, links to resources.
 

History of Photography Timeline: Major events in the development of photography and techniques.