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• American Photographers : An Illustrated Who's Who among Leading Contemporary Americans
  REF. TR139 .K73 1989
  Comprehensive biographical dictionary of more than 1,000 living photographers in all areas of the field.

• Contemporary Photographers
  REF. TR139 .C663 1988
  Biographical dictionary of 750 prominent international photographers either living or recently deceased. In additional to biographical information and exhibition listings, ther are bibliographies for each artist, and a critical essay on their work.

• Photographers Encyclopaedia International 1839 to the Present
  REF. TR139 .A94 1985 v.1-2
  Bilingual (French and English) biographical dictionary covering some 1,600 international photographers over a period of 145 years. Excellent coverage of contemporary photographers. Also includes a chronology.

• MacMillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators
  REF. TR139 .B767 1983
  A biographical dictionary of 2,000 photographers and photographic artists both living and dead. International coverage with a quarter of the individuals dated from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Focal Encyclopedia of Photography
  FENWICK STACKS TR9 .F6 1993
  Entries vary from concise definitions to comprehensive articles covering all of photography and allied areas relating to photography.

• American Photography: A Century of Images
  FENWICK AND JCL STACKS TR23 .G65 1999
  Companion volume to the PBS series which explores how photography both captured and shaped American history.

• American Women Photographers : A Selected and Annotated Bibliography
  REF. TR139 .K74 1999
  Bibliography of books covering individual artists with page numbers indicated for particular photographs. There is also a section on artists featured in collected works.

• World Photographers Reference Series
  Fenwick Stacks (Perform a title search in the library catalog for individual call numbers)
  Each of the volumes in this set covers an individual photographer with a brief chronology and a biocritical essay; as well as an annotated critical bibliography or bibliographic essay, and a selection of twenty-five to thirty reproductions of the artist's work.

• History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography
  REF. N6490 .A713 1998
  Survey of modern art in Europe and America from 1850 to the present. Arranged chronologically with hundreds of illustrations. Biographical sketches and a bibliography are included.

• History of Photography: A Bibliography of Books
  REF. TR15 .R66
  Comprehensive coverage of books issued between 1839-1914, and selective coverage of those published between 1915 to the mid 1980's. Photographers treated are limited to those born prior to 1914.

• Photography
  REF. TR145 .P456x
  Over 3,200 entries relating to photography, including periodical articles, books, dissertations, and exhibition catalogs, published between 1972 and 1979.
  
  

Web Sites

Masters of Photography

Site contains excerpts from published works about photographers (with added hyperlinks to other photographers on the site), examples of their works, and links to both resource sites and books about the photographer (at amazon.com).

American Memory Collection Finder: Prints and Photos

List of print and photo collections from the American Memory Collection. Includes photos from the FSA, Carl Van Vechten photographs of creative people, women suffrage photos, and photos of the First Ladies, among others.

American Photography: A Century of Images

Companion website to the PBS program; with essays about photography as an art form, photography and war, and other topics of interest. Includes images, a trio of multimedia features exploring aspects of photography, and a teacher's guide.

American Museum of Photography

American Museum of Photography with links to online exhibitions and digital collections, and information about photographic process.

Daguerreian Society

Galleries, resources including 19th and 20th century texts about the daguerreotype and links to web resources, a bibliography, brief history of the daguerreotype, and an illustrated description of the process.

Art History Resources: Photography

Links to photography-related sites on the web; some entries are annotated.

Voice of the Shuttle: Photography