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Biographical Dictionaries
These biographical dictionaries provide a brief overview of the photographer’s career and list some of the more important writings by or about the photographer.
- Auer, Michèle, and Michel Auer. Encyclopédie internationale des photographes de 1839 à nos
jours = Photographers Encyclopaedia International 1839 to the Present. 2 vols. Hermance: Editions Camera obscura, 1985.
TR139.A94 1985 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection) - Contemporary Photographers. 3rd ed. New York: St. James, 1995.
TR139.C663 1995 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference) - Kreisel, Martha. American Women Photographers: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood, 1999.
TR139.K74 1999 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection) - Willis-Thomas, Deborah. Black Photographers, 1840-1940: An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1989. TR139.W55 1985 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 - Reference Collection)
- Willis-Thomas, Deborah. An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940-1988. New York: Garland, 1989. TR139.W55 1989 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, Stacks 2 – Reference Collection)
An excellent encyclopedia for the arts, which has many thorough biographical entries for photographers, is:
- The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996.
N31.D5 1996 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference)
Surveys of History
These surveys of the history of photography can be helpful in understanding how a photographer fits into broad trends and developments in photography.
- Clarke, Graham. The Photograph. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. TR15.C566 1997 (Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor)
- Hirsch, Robert. Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000. TR15.H557 2000 (Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor)
- Rosenblum, Naomi. A History of Women Photographers. New York: Abbeville, 1994. TR139.R67 1994 (Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor)
- Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. 3rd ed. New York: Abbeville, 1997. TR15.R67 1997 (Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor)
- Szarkowski, John. Photography Until Now. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1989. TR15.S965 1989 (Pattee, West Wing - 3rd Floor)
Picture Indexes
These picture indexes can be helpful in finding photographs by subject or title. They do not reproduce the photos, but they provide the title of a book and page number where a reproduction will be found.
- Moss, Martha. Photography Books Index: A Subject Guide to Photo Anthologies. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1980. TR199.M67 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference)
- Moss, Martha. Photography Books Index II: A Subject Guide to Photo Anthologies. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1985. TR199.M67 Suppl. (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference)
- Parry, Pamela Jeffcoat. Photography Index: A Guide to Reproductions. Westport: Greenwood, 1979. TR199.P37 (Arts & Humanities, Pattee, 2nd Floor - Ready Reference)