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Photography

Research Guide

Introduction | Photo History I | Portraiture

This guide is designed to assist students enrolled in Photo History I - Nineteenth Century Portrait Photography with their research.

 

 

Internet Resources

Articles

Books

Face Time: A History of the Photographic Portrait

Library location: 4th floor

Call number: 778.9209 P964f

The Printed Picture

Library location: 3rd floor

Call number: 686.209 B474p

Flash! Photography, Writing, and Suprising Illumination

Library location: 4th floor

Call number: 770.9 F624f

Photography and Other Media in the Nineteenth Century

Library location: 4th floor

Call number: 770.9 P575L

Madame D'Ora

Library location: 4th floor

Call number: 779.092 O63f

Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography

Library location: 4th floor

Call number: 770.74 A188r

The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography

Library location: 4th floor

Call number: 770.944 G347c

E-Books

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian: Text

Designed to complement the Library of Congress photographic images site, this Northwestern University site provides the 5,000 page full text of Curtis's 20 volume work. More information on Edward S. Curtis: Coming To Light (Fifth Floor Stacks 973.0497 C978m)

Virtual Photography Exhibition | Google Arts & Culture | ★ ★ ★ Making, Not Taking: Portrait Photography in the 19th Century ★ ★ ★

MAKING, NOT TAKING:  PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE 19TH CENTURY was an exhibition running from February 7 until December 13, 2020 at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.  Learn More:  https://www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/whats-on/upcoming/node/171791