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Photography Subject Guide
Reference books
Cotton, Charlotte. The Photograph as Contemporary Art. 3rd ed. World of Art. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2014 – TR 642 C68 2014
Frizot, Michel. A New History of Photography. Köln: Könemann, 1998 – TR 15 B6813 1998
Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. 4th ed. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020 – TR 15 M273 2014
Wells, Liz. Photography: A Critical Introduction. 4th ed. London: Routledge, 2009 – TR 145 P495 2009
Photography books in the Library’s REFERENCE section
Theory & criticism
Bolton, Richard. The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989 – TR 642 C66 1989
Elkins, James. Photography Theory. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007 – eBook
Emerling, Jae. Photography: History and Theory. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012 – TR 187 E44 2012
Lyons, Nathan, ed. Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology. Prentice-Hall Foundations of Modern Photography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966 – TR 185 LP
Wells, Liz, ed. The Photography Reader: History and Theory. 2nd ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019 – TR 187 P56 2019
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photographic Criticism
Technical books
Benson, Richard. The Printed Picture. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2008 – TR 15 B46 2008
Kingslake, Rudolf. A History of the Photographic Lens. Boston: Academic Press, 1989 – TR 270 K49 1989
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photography – Handbooks, manuals, etc.
BIPOC representation in photography
Bright, Sheila Pree. 1960 Now: Photographs of Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Protests. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2018 – E 185.61 B85 2018
Duganne, Erina. The Self in Black and White: Race and Subjectivity in Postwar American Photography. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2010 – TR 23 D84 2010
Pinney, Christopher, and Nicolas Peterson. Photography’s Other Histories. Objects/Histories. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003 – TR 15 P495 2003
Willis, Deborah. Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers, 1840 to the Present. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000 – TR 23 W55 2000
Library of Congress Subject Headings: African American photographers ; Indian photographers ; Photographers, Black (Combined search of these Library of Congress Subject Headings: here)
Combined search for Subject: Photography AND Keyword: Indigenous OR Inuit OR Métis OR "First Nation" OR Black OR "Person of color" OR Asian OR Latin* NOT Keyword: "Black and white" NOT Keyword: "Black & white"
Canadian photography
Cousineau-Levine, Penny. Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003 - eBook
Greenhill, Ralph, and A.J. Birrell. Photography, 1839-1920. Toronto, ON: Coach House Press, 1979 – TR 26 G72 1979
Kunard, Andrea, and Carol Payne. The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011 – TR 183 C85 2011
Payne, Carol. The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada’s Still Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941-1971. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2013 – eBook
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photography – Canada
Photobooks (about)
Di Bello, Patricia, Colette E. Wilson, and Shamoon Zamir. The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond. London: I.B. Tauris, 2012 – TR 501 P468 2012
Dugan, Thomas. Photography Between Covers: Interviews with Photo-Bookmakers. Rochester, NY: Light Impressions, 1979 – TR 147 D83
Parr, Martin, and Gerry Badger. The Photobook: A History. 3 vols. London: Phaidon, 2004-2014 – N 7433.3 P39 2004
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photobooks
Library of Congress Subject Heading and Genre search: Photography AND Artists' books
Photography journals & magazines (online)
Aperture (1952 - ) – eMagazine
British Journal of Photography (2009 - ) – eMagazine
Ciel Variable / CV (2003 - ) – eMagazine
Études photographiques (1996-2017) - eJournal
History of Photography (1977 - ) – eJournal
Photographies (2008 - ) – eJournal
Photography & Culture (2008 - ) – eJournal
Prefix Photo (2000 - ) – eMagazine
Visual Studies (2002 - ) - eJournal
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Photography, Artistic – Periodicals
Online resources outside of Concordia University
ASX: An Epicenter for Art & Photography
AMERICAN SUBURB X
Getty Conservation Institute
“Fundamentals of the Conservation of Photographs.” Los Angeles, CA: Getty Conservation Institute. Last modified May 2011. https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/teaching/photographic_materials.html
Stulik, Dusan, and Art Kaplan. “The Atlas of Analytical Signatures of Photographic Processes.” Los Angeles, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, 2013, http://hdl.handle.net/10020/gci_pubs/atlas_analytical
Internet Archive
Photography periodicals
McCord Museum
Collections and Research
Paperbase
Online interactive visual platform for exploring and analyzing the world's largest collection of photographic paper. Designed and built by the Lens Media Lab at Yale University.
National Gallery of Canada
Photostories Canada
Nineteenth-century Canadian Photographically Illustrated Books
Victoria & Albert Museum
Online collections (including many early photographic artefacts)
Call numbers and subject headings
Library of Congress call numbers for Photography
| TR | Photography |
| TR1-1050 | Photography |
| TR250-265 | Cameras |
| TR287-500 | Photographic processing. Darkroom technique |
| TR504-508 | Transparencies. Diapositives |
| TR510-545 | Color photography |
| TR550-581 | Studio and laboratory |
| TR590-620 | Lighting |
| TR624-835 | Applied photography (including artistic, commercial, medical photography, photocopying processes) |
| TR845-899 | Cinematography. Motion pictures |
Library of Congress Subject Headings for Photography (selection)
Guide prepared by Michel Hardy-Vallée, Ph.D. (Art History), Visiting Scholar at the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, in collaboration with Concordia University Library