Emerson College Library: Photography: Best Bets

Databases

American Indian Histories and Cultures
Explore manuscripts, artwork and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers up to photographs and newspapers from the mid-twentieth century. Browse through a wide range of rare and original documents from treaties, speeches and diaries, to historic maps, images, and travel journals. This resource contains material from the Newberry Library’s Edward E. Ayer Collection.
ARTstor
A rich digital library of more than 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archaeology, which can be viewed online at full resolution and downloaded at reduced size for projects and presentations. Register an account to save and download images.
Associated Press (AP) Images
Contains hundreds of thousands of photos and graphics from the Associated Press, most taken since 1995, plus historical images dating back to the 1800s.
Biography Resource Center
A comprehensive database of biographical information, including articles from magazines and newspapers.
Films on Demand
Streaming source for documentary films. Search "history of photography" for results including History of African American Photography; Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning; The Man Who Shot Vietnam; and Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures.
Multisearch
Scholarly peer-reviewed articles, news, magazine and trade articles, ebooks, print books, streaming video, and dissertations. Limit results by keyword, type of source, subject, author, date of publication, etc. Covers most subjects. *Excludes some professional marketing databases, i.e. Mediamark Reporter, Statista.

Selected eJournals

To view images of contemporary art and read the lastest news be sure to check out art journals in the current periodicals section of the library.

Aperture
Aperture connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online.
Artforum
Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.
ARTnews
ARTnews reports on the art, personalities, issues, trends and events shaping the international art world.

Encyclopedias

Credo Reference
Collection of virtual encyclopedias with over 3 million entries from 300+ reference books in a variety of subjects.
Oxford Art Online
Covers all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present. Content: artist biographies, definitions of art terminology, description of art movements, and images. Includes Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Searchable encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research in the arts and sciences.

Featured

150 Years of Photography - 6 episode documentary, 26 min each
"This six-part series on photography was occasioned by the 150th anniversary of the medium’s invention. The programs take the form of film essays which look at varying aspects of photography throughout its history. The series draws from over 20 different collections of photographs in museums, archives, and private collections in the U.S., Canada, Britain, and France—an altogether splendid source of the best, most interesting, most innovative photographs in the century-and-a-half of this medium which revolutionized art and archivism. 6-part series, 26 minutes each." - Films on Demand About Series page

100 ideas that changed photography [electronic resource] by Mary Warner Marien
Call Number: eReference
ISBN: 9781785392061
Publication Date: 2012
Photography: the definitive visual history by Tom Ang
Call Number: TR15 .A54 2014
ISBN: 9781409346456
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
A World History of Photography by Naomi Rosenblum; Abbeville Press Staff
Call Number: TR15 .R67 1997
ISBN: 0789200287
Publication Date: 1997-02-01

FLO Search

Shared online catalog for Iwasaki Library and other FLO Libraries. Includes books, ebooks, DVD and streaming video, etc. Limit results to Emerson-only if needed. Request items from other libraries.

Full version

History of Photography - Subject Search Results
Includes books, ebooks, and encyclopedias from Emerson and related FLO libraries.
Sort results by "Date Descending" to see newest books at top.