Research Guides: ENGL 215: Realism, Race, and Photography (HC) Fall 2017: Photography Resources

Online Photography Collections

Center for Creative Photography
This center retains the archives of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, and other great twentieth-century photographers. The center has digitized some of their work on this site.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online
The Library of Congress holds a variety of photograph collections (all viewable from this page). Note, for example, the Daguerreotypes and the Farm Security Administration Black and White Photographs (including the work of Dorothea Lange).
MOMA Photography Collection
The Museum of Modern Art has over 25,000 photographs and is a major resource for understanding developments in aesthetics and techniques. The website includes links to many online exhibitions including the work of Cindy Sherman and a yearly exhibit of new photography.
International Center for Photography
The ICP is devoted to socially and politically engaged photography and has digitized a significant amount of its collection for access online.

Online Reference Resources

Luminous Lint
Has information on hundreds of photographers. Can be very useful. NOTE: It is often slow to connect.
Timeline of Color Photography
Graphics Atlas
Graphics Atlas is a sophisticated resource that presents a unique, object-based approach for the identification and characterization of prints and photographs.

Oxford Art Online
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Oxford Art Online is an art reference library that searches Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. This resource contains images, biographies, subject entries, and thematic timelines (antiquity to present).

Print Reference Resources

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.
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph by Robin Lenman (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2005-12-01
Has concise, authoritative entries.
The Abrams Encyclopedia of Photography by Quentin Bajac; Christian Caujolle
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Publication Date: 2004-11-01
In outlining nearly two centuries of this innovative art form, this book touches on some of photography's key themes, from portraits and still lifes to sports and photojournalism. Photographic techniques are explained and the various approaches to photography around the world are examined.

Consult the 'Biographies' section which starts on page 202.
The Book of Photography by Anne H. Hoy
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Publication Date: 2005-11-01
The entries on individual photographers are woven into thematic chapters. This allows you to contextualize the photographers work into the history of photography.