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AP Images

AP Images
More than 3.5 million historical and contemporary news photographs with thousands more added daily. In addition, the collection includes over 100,000 graphics, containing logos, graphs, maps, and timelines, as well as audio clips and news stories.

Library Stack

Library Stack
Library Stack is an online archive of digital arts publications from the fields of contemporary art, graphic design, architecture, photography, film and philosophy. Library Stack draws from diverse global platforms, and has a particular focus on hybrid works.

Oxford Art Online

Oxford Art Online
Integrated searchable access to Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and more.

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Photography Reference Books

50 Contemporary Photographers You Should Know
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference (1st floor) TR139 .H45 2016

Contemporary photographers and their work in a wide variety of techniques and styles embraced by the medium. Organized chronologically by year of birth, each photographer is introduced in double-page spreads that feature reproductions of their work and a perceptive and concise appreciation of their life and career.
The Abrams Encyclopedia of Photography
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference TR9.P4813 2004
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference TR9 .H25 2008
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference TR642 .E5 2006

Three volume Encyclopedia 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.
The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: From the First Photo on Paper to the Digital Revolution
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference TR9 .C65 2008 & Online Access
Images: Critical and Primary Sources by Sunil Manghani (Editor)
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference NX60.I43 2013
Reading Photography: A Sourcebook of Critical Texts, 1921-2000 by Sri Kartini Leet
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference TR187.R43 2011

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Search within the VCU Libraries Search <above>, or start your photography research with these arts focused resources <below>. If you are searching with VCU Libraries Search, be sure and Sign In to enhance your search with additional databases including ARTstor and the 60+ ProQuest databases (i.e. ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM), International Bibliography of Arts (IBA), MLA International Bibliography, Vogue, and more).

ARTbibliographies Modern
Abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art.

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(1974 - present) VCU access only
Art Full Text
Citations, abstracts, and selected full-text for articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Includes selected full-text. Abstracts, 1994+; full-text, 1997+.
Kanopy Streaming
Streaming documentaries, feature films, shorts, and more. Includes films from The Criterion Collection, California Newsreel, Media Education Foundation, First Run Features, Green Planet Films, Michael Blackwood, Kino Lorber and many more.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences.

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VCU access only
AP Images
More than 3.5 million historical and contemporary news photographs with thousands more added daily. In addition, the collection includes over 100,000 graphics, containing logos, graphs, maps, and timelines, as well as audio clips and news stories.

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(1840's - present) VCU access only

Citations

Behind the Image: Research in Photography by Natasha Caruana; Anna Fox
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference TR267 .F69 2012
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials by Gillian Rose
Call Number: Cabell Library P93.5.R67 2016

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