Subject Guide: Photography

These are some books that might be useful.  Note that some are in the Library’s Tall section:

• The encyclopedia of practical photography, edited by and published for the Eastman Kodak Company.  Garden City:  Amphoto, 1977.
  [TR9 .A46 1977] 
• The Focal encyclopedia of  photography, edited by Leslie Stroebel and Richard Zakia.  Boston:  Focal Press, 1993.
  [TR9 .F6 1993]
• The photography reader, edited by Liz Wells.  New York:  Routledge, 2003.
  [TR146 .P46 2003]
• Photography, essays & images :illustrated readings in the history of photography, edited by Beaumont Newhall. New York: Museum of Modern Art ; Boston: Distributed by the Graphis Society, 1980.
  [Tall TP185 .P575]
•   Busselle, Michael.  Creative digital photography.  New York:  Amphoto Books, 2002.
  [TR267 .B877 2002]
• Goldin, Nan.  The devil’s playground. edited by Beaumont Newhall. New York: Phaidon, 2003.
  [Tall TR655 .G65 2003]

These titles may be of special interest.  Some are available in print form, some in electronic form.  Browse by title in PacifiCat for print holdings, and the Pacific e-Journals for electronic holdings.  To locate other art titles, browse Pacificat for the subject "Photography Periodicals".

• Afterimage
• Aperture
• European Photography
• Petersen’s Photographic Magazine
• Popular Photography & Imaging
• PSA Journal

• Art History Resources on the Web: Prints and Photographs
  A site that links to information on photographers, photographic history, and photography archives.  A project of Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe of Sweet Briar College.
• American Museum of Photograpy
  5,000 images from daguerreotype portraits to Ansel Adams.
  
• California Museum of Photography
  UC Riverside. Search their permanent or recent acquisitions, with digital images.
  
•  Helios, Photography Online
  More than 1500 images from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Photography Collection.
  
• Holt-Atherton Digital Collections
  Online images of photographs held in the Special Collections Department of the Pacific Library
• PhotoForum's List of Photo Web Pages
  A gateway site compiled by Andrew Davidhazy, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY. Grouped into 12 sub-directories, including museums, galleries, exhibitions, and cultural institutions; and photographic societies and associations.

In PacifiCat, there are two ways to find items on a particular subject:  by Searching, or by Browsing. 
Searching (by keyword) is useful for finding items about a specific topic when you don't have a specific author or title.

1. To SEARCH by Subject Keywords, go to PacifiCat, and select Advanced Search.
2. If you are looking for a particular type of material (e.g., videos) select the Format and/or Material Type you are looking for.
3. Under Field to Search: choose Subject.
4. Under Words adjacent? select No
5. Enter search term(s) from the following list in the first blank box:
• Photography history
• Photography social aspects
• Influence photography
• Photographers

Browsing by subject is useful when browsing for information on specific periods, countries, or media when a specific artist or title is not known. To BROWSE by Subject, go to PacifiCat, and select “Browse” from the left-hand menu. Under Index to Browse: choose Subject.

• Photography, Artistic—[name of state or country]
• Landscape photography
• Photography, Artistic Exhibitions
• Photographic criticism