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Assignment - Photographer
A Critical Curation of 100 Essential Photos
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Books containing information on multiple photographers
Contemporary PhotographersCall Number: TR 139 .C664 1995
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century PhotographyCall Number: TR 9 .H25 2008
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century PhotographyCall Number: TR 642 .E5 2006 v. 1-3
Twentieth Century United States PhotographersCall Number: TR 139 .C65 2008
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Our Art Databases
- Artstor This link opens in a new window Artstor features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world's top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else. Artstore has Open Access collections from partner museums freely available to all, in areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and educational purposes. All content in Artstor is rights-cleared for education and research.
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window The Grove Dictionary of Art is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of the visual arts, with 30,000 signed and peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 international scholars. Grove Art features entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as bibliographies for further research and thousands of searchable images made available through partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations.
Background Information
- In Context: Biography This link opens in a new window Built on a foundation of more than 640,000 biographical entries, Gale In Context: Biography covers international figures from all time periods and areas of study. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create highly-targeted custom search results.
Masters-of-photography.com
List from Masters-of-photography.com
- Harry Callahan
- Emmet Gowin
- John Gutmann
- Clarence John Laughlin
- Ralph Eugene Meatyard
- Tina Modotti
- Eadweard Muybridge
- Nadar
- Arnold Newman
- Timothy O'Sullivan
- Paul Outerbridge
- Gordon Parks
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Stephen Shore
- W. Eugene Smith
- Frederick Sommer
- William Henry Fox Talbot - creator of positive-negative photography
- Maggie Taylor - digital photomontage
- Jerry Uelsmann - photomontage
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Max Waldman - theatrical photographer
Architectural Photography
- Berenice Abbott
- Eugène Atget
- James Austin
- Iwan Baan
- Hélène Binet
- Julius Shulman
Documentary Photography
The term Documentary Photography describes photography that attempts to capture real-life situations and settings. As the medium developed, however, Documentary Photography became so diffuse it came to be discussed through a whole series of photographic sub-genres.
Fashion Photography
Fashion photography has existed almost as long as photography itself. If you are interested in this type of photography, you may want to take a look at work of some of the fashion photographers who made history.
- Beginnings of Fashion Photography
- Edward Steichen
- Man Ray
- Cecil Beaton
- Norman Parkinson
- Irving Penn
- Helmut Newton
- Annie Leibovitz - Connecticut photographer
- Richard Avedon
- David Bailey
- Guy Bourdin
- Peter Lindbergh
- Mario Testino
- Steven Meisel
- David LaChapelle - Connecticut photographer
Fine Art Photography
Landscape Photography
Landscape photography is probably one of the most famous types of straight photography and it you are interested in it, check out the work of these well known landscape photographers.
- Ansel Adams
- Robert Adams
- Michael Kenna
- Nadav Kander
- Sebastião Salgado
- Brett Wilson
- Franco Fontana
- Takeshi Mizukoshi
- David Brookover
- Galen Rowell
- Carr Clifton
- Edward Weston
- Minor White
- Carleton Weston
Photojournalism
- Lynsey Addario - Connecticut photographer
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Roger Fenton
- Nick Ut
- Margaret Bourke-White - Connecticut photographer
- Robert Capa
- Josef Koudelka
- Philip Jones-Griffiths
- Moises Saman
- João Silva
- Tim Hetherington
- Don McCullin
- James Nachtwey
- Denis Sinyakov
- Adam Ferguson
- Ernest Brooks
- William Eugene Smith
- Javier Manzano
- Weegee