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 eLibrary for electronic holdings.  To locate other art titles, browse Pacificat for the subject "Art 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