LibGuides: Art : Photography

Browse Art Books

N - Fine Arts

NA - Architecture
NB - Sculpture
NC - Drawing, Design
ND - Painting
NE - Print Media
NK - Decorative Arts
NX - Arts in General

TR - Photography
TT - Handicrafts, Arts and Crafts

Z 246 Graphic Design (Typography)

Also, check the Oversize collection located after the Z call numbers. Many of the art and photography books are located in this section.

See the LC class outline for Art for more detail.

Museums and Collections

Archives of American Art Photography Collections
Alphabetical listing of Photographers with links to oral interviews, papers, correspondence, images, recordings, and more.
Art Institute Photography Collections
The Art Institute's photography collection contains works of many of the medium's celebrated practitioners, including collection the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, the Julien Levy Collection, with more than 200 photographs by Edward Weston, and the work of Paul Strand, Eugéne Atget, and André Kertész.
Europeana
An authoritative source to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe from distinguished cultural and scientific institutions.
Gallica
Interface in English and French (and other major, European languages). Majority of the content in French.
France's fantastic digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Digitized periodicals, images, recordings, and more. Covers two millenia with particular strength from 1500 to the present.
Open Access.
MOMA Photography Collections
With over 25,000 works, this is one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary photography in the world and includes work not only by artists, but also by journalists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and amateurs.
Museum of Fine Arts Photography Collection
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, was one of the earliest museums in the country to collect photography, and the collection include daguerreotype portraits, landscapes of the American West; Pictorialist photographs; European and Central European photography from between the wars, and archival collections of celebrity portraits by Yousuf Karsh and Herb Ritts and mountain photographs by Bradford Washburn

Photographic Sites

Getty Images
Search several picture and film archives collections, including the Hulton Picture Archive, National Geographic, Time Life, Bridgeman Art Library.
Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs
Contains catalog records and digital images of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and other units of the Library of Congress.
Library of Congress' Flickr Photostream
Thousands of historic photographs arranged in 13 searchable groups or sets covering various topics, such as Jazz, Baseball, World War I, Abraham Lincoln, Women, the 1930's and 40's.
National Archives ARC - Digital Copies Search
Search for digital copies of the photographs, movies, data, drawings, maps, and other documents from the National Archives.

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Searching Catalog for Photography Books

Do you need to search our catalog for photography books? Let's get started by going to our library's catalog search bar. Type "Photography" or "Photographer" in the search bar.

You will get a lot of results from just doing a general search like this. You will need to use the limiters or filters on the left side to narrow your search to a more manageable results list. If you want a book right away, select "Shepherd University" under held by library and then "print book" under format.

To further narrow this down, scroll down the list of filters to subject. Click on it subject to open up the list of subjects. Under Art& Architecture, click on photography.

This will greatly reduce your results to feature only print books on photography at our library. Be sure to check the item's location before you go looking for it because the book may be either in the general collection or oversized.

Art : Photography