This searches an encyclopedia of art. It has biographies of hundreds of photographers. The bibliographies of the entries often have full text links.
Gale Biography in Context
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A search brings back many results, so are are useful than others.
General Biographical Sources
American National Biography
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Offers portraits of more than 18,000 men and women, from all eras and walks of life, whose lives have shaped the nation. No living person is included.
African American National Biography
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An authoritative biographical dictionary. BMC has a print edition of this reference work.
Other Resources
Art in America
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The August issue of Art in America has an artist index. You can use this index to find which galleries represent the artist that you are researching.
Reference Sources on African American Artists
African Americans in the visual arts
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Few contemporary artists are represented and the bibliographies at the end of each entry should be viewed as a starting point and not as exhaustive. Useful features are: A listing that is is arranged by artistic medium (page 251); by artistic style (page 256); and by year of birth (page 258).
Encyclopedia of African American artists
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Biographical Information from Specialized Artistic Medium Sources
You may want to search specialized resources that cover a particular artistic medium (such as painting, sculpture etc.). Examples of useful resources in the medium of photography are noted below.
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography by John Hannavy (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2007-08-24
Long entries with bibliographies. Also features topical articles.
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography by Lynne Warren (Editor)
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ISBN: 1579583938
Publication Date: 2005-11-15
Long entries with bibliographies. Also features topical articles.