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Photography: Photo History
Books & Encyclopedias on Photo history & photographers
- Go to the stacks of Mary Idema Pew Library and browse the call number TR (4th floor).
- Click on Advanced Search, enter last name of photographer (e.g., cartier-bresson) and search in Subject.
- Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography byCall Number: available both as an e-book and on the Library's 4th floor: TR642 .E5 2006
- Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century PhotographyCall Number: e-book; Library 4th floor: TR9 .H25 2008
- Focal encyclopedia of photography : digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and scienceCall Number: Library 4th floor: TR9 .F6 2007
- A world history of photographyCall Number: Library 4th floor: TR15 .R67 2007
Exhibition Catalogs
- Met Publications byfree online books, catalogs, magazines, & more
GVSU Photo e-journals
- History of photographyCall Number: print version
Best article databases
- Art Abstracts and RetrospectiveChoose databases & check to include:
Art Abstracts & Art Index Retrospective,
Communication Source,
Film & Television Literature Index
Also consider: America History & Life &/or Historical Abstracts - Communication Sourcejournal articles & more on all aspects of photography and film.
- International Bibliography of Art (IBA) This link opens in a new windowincludes articles on photography & photographers
- Oxford Art Onlinearticles on artists (selected photographers), styles, & movements
- WorldCatfor books and DVDs/videos GVSU doesn't own; use Doc Delivery option in "Get it@GVSU".
General & Newspaper Databases
To cover all the bases.
- JSTORgeneral - historical: search your photographer's name.
- Global Newsstream1400+ newspapers: search your photographer's name.
- Periodicals Archive Onlinegeneral - historical (1802-1995): search your photographer's name.
- Project Musegeneral: search your photographer's name.
- New York Timeshistorical newspaper: search your photographer's name.
Search tips for finding articles
- use "quotation marks" around phrases
- truncate - shorten a word to its trunk or root to get alternate endings - with an asterisk * (shift 8), e.g., truncat* finds truncate, truncated, truncation
- apply Boolean connector AND to combine unlike ideas, e.g., dance AND promotion
- apply Boolean connector OR to connect synonyms, e.g., advertisements OR campaigns
Put it all together:
- "hip hop dance" in one box
- AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns) in the next box
- use parentheses in single-box searching - when you don't have another set of boxes, e.g.,:
- "hip hop dance" AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns)
Use the left or right menus to narrow your results, e.g., by language, date, subject, etc.
Databases have a citation (information about an article such as the title, author, name of the journal or magazine, volume and issue (which correspond to the date), date, and pages) and sometimes they will also contain an abstract, or summary, of the article.
Databases also often cite multiple types of resources - books, essays or chapters, government documents, etc.
Some databases will also have the complete item (called the full text): you should see a link to an HTML or PDF document. Or click on - this will check the other library databases for the full text of the article.
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