Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography by ISBN: 0415972353Publication Date: 2007-08-24The first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century with 1,200 essays written by authorities worldwide. Includes key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings.
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography by ISBN: 1579583938Publication Date: 2005-11-15Covers the aesthetic history of photography as an evolving art and documentary form, while also recognizing it as a developing technology and cultural force. Presents the important developments, movements, photographers, photographic institutions, and theoretical aspects of the field along with information about equipment, techniques, and practical applications of photography.
- Grove Art Online: Photography
Most comprehensive art encyclopedia available in English; useful for scholarly overviews and excellent bibliographies. See especially this essay on Photography.
Looking at Photographs by Call Number: Art Library, TR9.B35 1991ISBN: 0892361921Publication Date: 1991-10-10This reference guide contains an informative history of photography, with explanations of the technical terms often encountered by gallery patrons and those taking an interest in the background to photographic excellence for the first time.
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph by Call Number: Art Library Reference, TR9.O94 2005ISBN: 0198662718Publication Date: 2005-12-01Concise treatment of recent scholarship, definitions of a wide range of technical terms and biographies of over 800 photographers and on other individuals who have significantlyinfluenced photographic culture from the early 19th century to the present. The book's scope is worldwide; Entries include suggestions for further reading and there is an extensive bibliography.
Biographical Sources
Contemporary Photographers by Call Number: Art Library Reference, TR139.C663ISBN: 1558621903Publication Date: 1995-08-01Profiles of significant 20th century photographers, listing exhibitions, writing by and about, major collections, and often interview excerpts or statements. Check both editions as coverage varies.
- Photographer's Identities Catalog
Biographical information about photographers, studios, manufacturers and others involved in the production of photographic images from the invention of photography to the present. Gathered from trusted biographical dictionaries, catalogs and databases and especially by original research done by NYPL Photography Collection staff.
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