Authoritative references, including articles from the print Encyclopædia Britannica, articles specially written for Britannica Online, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica Book of the Year, etc.
The Miracle of Analogy is the first of a two-volume reconceptualization of photography. It argues that photography originates in what is seen, rather than in the human eye or the camera lens, and that it is the world's primary way of revealing itself to us. Neither an index, representation, nor copy, as conventional studies would have it, the photographic image is an analogy.
"What does it mean to “write with photography”? In what variety of contexts does this long-standing but ever-evolving collaboration take place? What kinds of material support has it required or generated over the course of its now-long history, and what difference do these locations and materials make not only to how we understand the nature of the interaction between writing and photography, but also to how this interaction mediates the world? "
Oxford’s art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
"Compiled by an international team of over 140 contributors, this is the first Oxford Companion to deal with the subject of photography. It appears at a watershed in the medium's history, as digital imaging increasingly dominates the global photography scene. Providing a wide range of technical information, the Companion also presents, in a concise and readily accessible form, the mass of recent scholarship on photography as a social and artistic practice.
Contents: Where did you find that one : sources for finding dead photographers / David Haynes
Lochman located : further adventures in photographer research / Linda A. Ries
The regional photography collection : a case study at the Oakland Museum of California / Drew Heath Johnson
Copyrights and other rights / Jeremy Rowe
Women in photography international archive / Peter E. Plamquist
City Gallery 37 : research in the twenty-first century / Steve Knoblock
Directories of photographers : an annotated bibliography / Richard Rudisil
Looking for Lochman : researching an historical photographer / Linda A. Ries
Regional photographic history in Europe : a review of methodology and sources / Steven Joseph.
"A complete introduction to photography, this book is an essential resource for students across the visual arts. This accessible, inspirational guide explores the subjects and themes that have always obsessed photographers and explains technique in a clear and simple way. It introduces the work of the masters of the art as well as showing fresh, dynamic images created by young photographers from all over the world. The book also provides a valuable overview of careers in photography and a comprehensive reference section, including a glossary of technical vocabulary."
A resource for students of American Theater, devotees of performing arts photography, historians of American visual culture, curators of image collections, and collectors of dramatic, operatic, balletic, and vaudevillian memorabilia.
This site supplies cogent biographical profiles and histories of the most artistically significant and culturally influential theatrical photographers and studios.
Luminous-Lint includes of over 6000 photographers from every historic period and region of the world through to contemporary artists, and our information on each photographer grows and improves daily with over carefully selected 46000 photographs.
Bringing to Light the Growth and Artistic Vision of 19th & 20th Century Photography; representing an evolving online record of this early fine-art photography movement, is a private archive with simple goals: beauty, truth, scholarship and enjoyment for all who visit
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