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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
National Gallery of Canada
Photostories Canada
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