Photography & Photojournalism

To find a book about photography & photojournalism:

• enter a term or name into the Start Your Research Here search box on the library's home page and
• limit it to Books using the dropdown menu (this limit includes physical books and ebooks, if you just want ebooks limit it to Ebooks)
• click Search
• to limit to just physical books, scroll down the page to Library Location in the left column and click on Circulating Books

You may borrow circulating books for four weeks. 

Search tips: 

• Most of the books that will be useful to you will be in the TR section on the second floor of the Library. 
• If you do not find an entire book on your person of interest, enter the field in which they participated.
• To access ebooks off campus, you will need to log in with your username and password.

This subscription database offers more than 170,000 electronic books.

• It requires a SUNY Adirondack username and password for off-campus access.
• These books originally appeared in print format. The library purchases these books in electronic format.
• Users may print up to a certain number of pages. Note that printing on campus is limited to 20 pages at a time.
• Students, faculty and staff may upload chapters to Google Drive, a network account, or a USB.
• Students, faculty and staff can also create accounts in Ebook Central to download books to a device, save them in an electronic bookshelf, or use the highlighter and other functions.
• Area residents may visit the library to use the library's computers to access Ebook Central.

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                                                                                                                    

TR925-1050 Photomechanical processes

Copy and paste subjects like these into the book database:

Photojournalism
Documentary photography
Journalism
Photographers, Biography
Photography, Artistic
Photography
Celebrities portraits
Pictorial works
Portrait photography

If you are researching a well-known photographer, search by his or her name (try last name first) to see if the Library owns an entire book on that person. If not, search by one of the broad subjects listed below, and check the indexes in the back of the books you find for your photographer's name.

Also think of specific historical events, places, people, or time periods that were subjects of newspapers or magazine articles documentaries.  Some subject headings examples are:

Abused women, Pictorial works
Jews, Europe, Eastern
World War, 1939-1945            
United States, History, 1961-1969
Cities and towns United States
Vietnamese Conflict

Subject headings may include the subheading "Portraits" or "Pictorial works" if the books are largely pictorial or photographic.  Try searching by those terms also, or combine them with another subject using "and," such as: Pictorial works and Vietnam.

 

SUNY Adirondack library has photography-related books, including some textbooks, on course reserve.