Photography


The following are potential resources that will assist you in researching photography, photographers, and the history of photography 

Online Databases

  Associated Press Photo Archive
AP photographs and graphics from the mid-1800s to the present.
Student Resource Center Gold - Offers more than 1,100 full-text periodicals and newspapers, primary  sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts


Internet Resources

Photographers
(biography)

 

 Masters of Photography: 
A great overall site for research on photographers, approx 60-historical & contemporary, broken down into articles, photographs, and resources, Photographers such as: Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Edward Steichen, Minor White, Dorothea Lange, Jerry Uelsman, Diane Arbus, Margret Bourke-White etc.: http://masters-of-photography.com/index.html
Abbot, Bernice: 
Adams, Ansel: 
Geddes, Ann:

Stephen Johnson:

Liebovitz, Anne: 
Maholy-nagy, Laslo: 
Mutter, Scott: 
Muybridge, Eadweard: 
Ray, Man: 
Sandved, Kjell: 
Photography
(history)		 About.com - Photography: http://search.about.com/fullsearch.htm?terms=photography

American Museum of Photogarphy:
www.photographymuseum.com/primer.html

Photo.net: History of Photography Timeline: 
www.photo.net/history/timeline

A History of Photography: 
www.rleggat.com/photohistory/

 

Remember:  YOU MUST CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU USED to gather information on your 
Works Cited (Bibliography) page.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.

If you don't find what you're looking for in any of the sites above, try your 
own keyword search using the following tips...

Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "Ansel Adams", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites containing both words together.
     
  4. If you would like to search for something specific about Ansel Adams, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term. For instance; if I wanted to find out the photography technique of Ansel Adams, I would enter the following:

                                         "ansel adams", photography, technique

     

  5. Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     
  6. Be sure to evaluate each Internet site for the following:

     

  7. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on an Internet source, 
    you must include it in your bibliography.

 

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