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
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.