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 by
Call Number: available both as an e-book and on the Library's 4th floor: TR642 .E5 2006Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
Call Number: e-book; Library 4th floor: TR9 .H25 2008Focal encyclopedia of photography : digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science
Call Number: Library 4th floor: TR9 .F6 2007A world history of photography
Call Number: Library 4th floor: TR15 .R67 2007
Exhibition Catalogs
- Met Publications byfree online books, catalogs, magazines, & more
GVSU Photo e-journals
History of photography
Call Number: print version
Best article databases
- Art Abstracts and Retrospective This link opens in a new windowChoose databases & check to include:
Art Abstracts & Art Index Retrospective,
Communication Source,
Film & Television Literature Index
Also consider: America History & Life &/or Historical Abstracts - Communication Source This link opens in a new windowjournal 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 Online This link opens in a new windowarticles on artists (selected photographers), styles, & movements
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowfor books and DVDs/videos GVSU doesn't own; use Doc Delivery option in "Get it@GVSU".
General & Newspaper Databases
To cover all the bases.
- Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new windowgeneral - historical (1802-1995): search your photographer's name.
- New York Times (1851 - 3 years ago) This link opens in a new windowhistorical 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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