Art Reference Resources in Ablah Library

PHOTOGRAPHY

Contemporary Photographers
  REF TR139.C664 1995
This most recent edition provides international coverage of living or recently past photographers.  Entries consist of a biography, individual and group exhibitions, public galleries and museums holding the artists work, a bibliography, a statement from the artist (if living), and a signed critical essay.

The Photography Encyclopedia  REF TR9.M39 1999
This is primarily a biographical dictionary of photographers although some terms are defined here.  Along with many photographs the work also contains sections listing awards, book reviews, films by or about photographers, museums, a time line and etc..

International Center of Photography Encyclopedia of Photography  REF TR9.I24 1984
Find here entries on the history, applications, techniques and processes, biography, aesthetics, physical and chemical theory and general topics related to the medium.

The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography  REF TR9.F6 1993
The focus here is upon the technical aspects of photography including cinematography, video and electronic still (still video) photography.

Photography Index  REF TR199.P37
Indexing photographic reproductions in over eighty books and catalogs, covering images from the 1820s through the 1970s, this volume indexes primarily artistic and documentary works.   Part I lists anonymous photographs chronologically, part II indexes images by photographer, and part III indexes images by subject and title.

Photography Books Index and Photography Books Index: II  REF TR199.M67 and TR199.M67 1985
This is mainly a subject guide to photographic anthologies, but also lists images by photographer.  The main volume and its supplement index 50 books, published between 1955 and 1982.

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Updated: March 23, 2007    Contact: Rachel Crane, Music/Fine Arts Librarian