Photography: Get Started
Resources for photography.
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This guide is designed to help students and artists do research and find resources for photography.
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Tom Kobayashi, Manzanar Relocation Center, California / photograph by Ansel Adams from the Library of Congress PPOC.
Articles & Information Databases for Photography
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowAs of August 1, 2024, the ARTstor platform is retired. The ARTstor Digital Library now resides on the JSTOR platform. JSTOR images include more than 3.5 million images. You must register for a JSTOR account to save any images for future reference and to use JSTOR's presentation tools. To register for a user account, you must either be logged into JSTOR from on campus or through the JSTOR database link on the library website. To stay logged in, select “Keep me Logged In” when registering for an account.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR has full text of over 1000 scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, as far back as 18xx up to 3-5 years ago. Note: It does not include current issues of the journals. All ARTstor image collections are now part of JSTOR, and can be searched using the "Images" tab then selecting "ARTstor collections".
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowProvides online versions of 500 published reference works, including general and specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias. Try the Concept Map to search for terms and topics that are interconnected and displayed in a visual form.
- Fine Arts (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new windowProvides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals that are covered in indices such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM, this collection will provide support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
- EBSCOhost This link opens in a new windowSearch from a wide range of research databases for magazine and journal articles. Updated daily. View the EBSCOhost handout
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Featured website
- Photography in the Digital Public Library of America
Explore genres of photography along with photographs within each genre from collections around the country.
Art Films
- Art and Architecture films from Films on Demand
All the videos in the Art and Architecture collection of Films on Demand collection are available to stream online. - Photography videos from Kanopy Streaming Videos
Kanopy Streaming Videos offers hundreds of streaming videos on the history of photography, interviews with photographers and technique films.