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HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY

1A. History and General Works: Reference Works
(Encyclopedias, Dictionaries)

Bognár, Desi K. International Dictionary of Broadcasting and Film. Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1995. [Paul J. Eisloeffel]

Brown, George E. "Photographic Words and Phrases," in The Photo-Miniature 25:169 (March 1918).

"A practical dictionary of the technical words and phrases used in current photography and what they mean." The glossary does not include names of chemicals, trade names, or names of processes obsolete at the time of publication.

Coe, Brian, and Mark Haworth-Booth. A Guide to Early Photographic Processes. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. 112 pp., illus.

Contains illustrations of the major processes; a commentary on the plates; an identification key; a chart indicating the periods at which the processes flourished; and notes on the care of photographs. [PJ]

Eastman Kodak Company. International Glossary of Photographic Terms. Rochester, N.Y.: Eastman Kodak, 1973. 96 pp., illus.

Terms and definitions in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Swedish. Arranged by the English term, with indices for the other languages.

Ehrlich, Richard. Dictionary of Photography. Essex, England: Longman Group, 1984. 183 pp., illus.

A concise work useful as a desk reference; includes definitions for techniques, equipment, processes, and biographies. [DLD]

The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography. Fully revised edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977 (c1965). 2 v. (xlviii, 1,699 pp.), illus.

_____. Revised Desk Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. xi, 1,699 pp., illus.

_____. London, New York: Focal Press, 1965. 2 v. (xlviii, 1,699 pp., illus.)

_____. Desk edition. New York: Macmillan, [1960]. 1,298 pp., illus.

_____. New York: Macmillan, 1956. xxxii, 1,298 pp., illus.

Both the 1965 and 1977 editions are described as "Fully revised."

Guerronnan, Anthonny. Dictionnaire Synonymique: Français, Allemand, Anglais, Italien et Latin des mots techniques et scientifiques employés en photographie. Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1895. 175 pp.

Terms are arranged alphabetically in French with definitions in French; German, English, Italian, and Latin translations are listed below the definitions. Separate language indices are provided.

Heighway, William. The Handbook of Photographic Terms: An alphabetical arrangement of the Processes, Formulae, Applications, etc., of Photography, for Ready Reference. London: Piper and Carter, 1880.

International Center of Photography. Encyclopedia of Photography. New York: Crown, 1984. 607 pp., illus.

An overview in 1,300 entries of the communicative, technical, scientific, and commercial applications of contemporary photography, including processes, techniques, aesthetics, and connoisseurship. Also includes some 350 biographical entries of photographers born before 1940 "whose work has shaped and defined the expressive and communicative uses of the medium" (Preface), and of scientists, inventors, and others who have contributed to the field. Appendix I includes brief biographical notes on some 2,500 others. [DLD]

Jones, Bernard E., ed. The Cyclopædia of Photography. London: Waverly Book Company, 1911.

_____. London: Bishopsgate Press, 1981. 572 pp., illus.

Note: In spite of the imprint of the Waverly Book Company on the title page, Cassell and Company, the publisher of subsequent editions of the work, is referenced at the head of the textblock in the heading "Cassell's Cyclopædia of Photography."

Other editions: London: Cassell and Company, 1912. New York: Arno Press, 1974; facsimile reproduction of a 1911 edition published by Cassell and Company with an introduction by Peter C. Bunnell and Robert Sobieszek.

"The object has been to include every accepted photographic term and to survey the whole field of photographic knowledge, whilst giving particular attention to the requirements of the working photographer, both amateur and professional. This cyclopædia is intended essentially as a simple guide to photographic practice, whatever else it may be. In all cases where the process described is commonly used, or is likely to be worked nowadays, working directions and definite formulae are given." (p. vii.)

Lambrechts, Eric and Salu, Luc. Photography and Literature: An International Bibliography of Monographs. Rutherford, NJ: Mansell Publishing, 1992.

The Modern Encyclopedia of Photography: A Standard Work of Reference for Amateur and Professional Photographers. London: Amalgamated Press, [1937].

Associate editors S. G. Blaxland Stubbs, F. J. Mortimer, and Gordon S. Malthouse. Helmut Gernsheim notes the first edition was issued as a weekly serial and bound by the Amalgamated Press in two volumes with title pages. The second edition was published by Waverly Press in two volumes.

Articles are arranged alphabetically. Many articles are extensive, covering a wide range of topics; e.g., "Colour photography," which includes essays on different processes and many trade name processes. Includes a comprehensive index.

Nadeau, Luis. Encyclopedia of Printing, Photographic and Photomechanical Processes. New Brunswick, Canada : Vol. 1 (1989), Vol. 2 (1990). 472 pp.

Currently available as a 2-vol. reprint. 1,500 entries and 5,500 references describe nearly every reproduction technology ever invented. Glossary of terms on and about prints. English-German and German-English index.

Pinkard, Bruce. The Photographer's Dictionary. London: B. T. Batsford, 1982.

Alphabetically arranged essays on photographers, photographic manufacturers, the history and chronology of photography, and photographic techniques and processes. Articles range from such broad, over-reaching topics as "Photography for the First Time" and "Focusing the Camera" to technical discussions on Color. The book is primarily contemporary in scope, although a few historically significant topics are included. [RPM]

Roosens, Laurent P. J. and Salu, Luc. History of Photography: A Bibliography of Books. Rutherford, NJ: Mansell Publishing, 1992.

Snelling, Henry Hunt. A Dictionary of Photographic Art [with] A Comprehensive and Systematic Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus and Material, Manufactured, Imported, and Sold by E. Anthony. New York: Arno Press, 1979 (c1854).

Sowerby, A. L. M. (Arthur Linday McRae). Dictionary of Photography: A Reference Books for Amateur and Professionary Photographers. 19th ed. London: Iliffe, 1961. vi, 715 pp., illus. [MELVYL]

_____. 18th ed., [1956]. vi, 719 pp., illus. [MELVYL]

_____. 19th ed. "Edited and largely rewritten by Sowerby" (tp). Continuations of Wall's Dictionary of Photography . . . .

Spencer, D. A. The Focal Dictionary of Photographic Technologies. London: Focal Press, 1973.

Stevenson, Sara, and Morrison-Low, Alison D., comps. and eds. Scottish Photography: a Bibliography 1839-1989. Edinburgh: Salvia Books, 1990.

Stroebel, Leslie, and Hollis N. Todd. Dictionary of Contemporary Photography. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Morgan & Morgan, [1974].

Stroebel, Leslie D. and Zakia, Richard D. Focal Encyclopedia of Photography (3rd Edition). Oxford: Focal Press, 1993.

Sutton, Thomas. A Dictionary of Photography. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Company, 1858.

"This Dictionary of Photography contains a minute account of the principal photographic processes now in use, and a description of the various substances employed by the photographer, together with an explanation of optical terms, the theory of lenses, rules of perspective, &c. No account, however, has been given of such common forms of apparatus as may be seen at every photographic depôt in the kingdom . . . . In my description of the several processes I have given those formulæ which, while they produce the best results, involve the simplest manipulations and fewest materials, rejecting all such modifications as appear to be unsupported by sound reasoning and conclusive experiments....

"This is, I believe, the first Photographic Dictionary that has been published in Europe. A similar work was issued some years ago in America, but I have not been able to procure a copy of it." (pp. v-vii.)

2nd ed.; Sutton, Thomas, and George Dawson, A Dictionary of Photography (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1867). The work has been condensed to make it "as practical as possible;" the editors "have eliminated the debatable theories and speculative articles which occupied a prominent position, especially in the first part of the previous edition, and they have abridged other articles which, at the present time, are of less importance to photographers than they were in the year 1858."

Wall, E. J. (Edward John) A Dictionary of Photography for Amateur and Professional Photographer: Containing Concise Elementary Articles, Illustrated by many Specially Prepared Diagrams (London: Hazell, Watson, & Viney, 1889).

Originally published serially in the Amateur Photographer. It was revised when published in book form. Portions of some entries appear to be taken verbatim from Dawson's Manual of Photography.

2nd ed., 1890. The Dictionary of Photography and Reference Book for Amateur and Professional Photographers / by E. J. Wall. London: Hazell, Watson, & Viney. 313 pp., illus. [MELVYL]

6th ed, 1895.

In the Preface, Wall notes that the fourth and fifth editions were issued without revisions. The title page includes the note "Mostly rewritten and greatly enlarged." Contains an appendix of Plate-Maker's Formulæ, including "the formulæ and working directions for all, or nearly all, of the commercial varieties of plates and papers." Additional indices include various tables of chemical formulas and a multilingual list of synonyms.

8th ed., 1902. The Dictionary of Photography and Reference Book for Amateur and Professional Photographers / by E. J. Wall; revised and brought up to date by Thos. Bolas. London: Hazell, Watson & Viney. iv, 656 pp., illus. [MELVYL]

10th ed., [1920]. Edited and largely rewritten by F. J. Mortimer. London: Iliffe & Sons. iii, 693 pp., illus.

Contains Greek roots for some headings.

11th ed., [1926]. 3, 674 p., illus.

13th ed., [1933].

14th ed., 1938. Boston: American Photographic Publishing Co. 634 pp., illus.

16th ed., [1943]. Wall's Dictionary of Photography and Reference Book for Amateur and Professional Photographers. Edited by F. J. Mortimer. London: Published for the Amateur Photographer by the Fountain Press.

Revised and largely rewritten by A. L. M. Sowerby. [MELVYL]

Woodbury, Walter E. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Photography. New York: Arno Press, 1979 (c1879).

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1B. History and General Works: Discursive Texts

Clerc, L[ouis] P[hilippe]. Photography : Theory and Practice : Being an English Edition of "La Technique Photographique". Edited by George E. Brown. Bath, Melbourne, Toronto, New York: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons; London: Henry Greenwood & Co., 1930).

"This book does not represent an attempt to compile an encyclopædia, a work of a kind which is always loaded with descriptions of obsolete methods and appliances and the details of numerous applications of interest only to a few technical people. The author's aim has been to bring into one volume as complete a treatise as possible on modern working methods and apparatus in conjunction with the minimum of theoretical considerations which he considers necessary for their proper understanding.

"Since the publication in 1926 of the original French edition, the author has mad a considerable number of additions and corrections which are embodied in the present English translation." --Preface.

Includes an extensive chronology of technological developments of photography.

2nd ed., 1937. New York and Chicago: Pittman Publishing. Reprinted, 1940, 1942, 1944.

Eder, Josef Maria; Edward Epstein, trans. The History of Photography. New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. Translation of Geschichte der Photographie, 4th ed., 1932.

_____. New York: Dover, 1978. Reprint.

Emphasizes inventions and the technical evolution of photography with some information on important figures. An excellent discussion of nineteenth-century topics.

Gernsheim, Helmut. The History of Photography from the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1969].

First edition published in 1955 by the Oxford University Press under title: The history of photography from the earliest use of the camera obscura in the eleventh century up to 1914. Republished as a second edition by London: Thames & Hudson and New York: McGraw-Hill in 1969 in a new and enlarged edition. Third edition published in three volumes by Thames & Hudson as The Origins of Photography and The Rise of Photography; the third volume as yet unpublished.

One of the most important histories of photography, touching on virtually every topic and personality associated with the medium. The work reflects Gernsheim's biases, which largely parallel material that he could acquire for his collection of original photographs. A significant European emphasis.

Fontanella, Lee. "La Historia de la Fotografia en Espana desde sus origenes hasta 1900," in Diaphanoramas en el Museo Romantico. Madrid: Centro Nacional de Exposiciones y Promocion Artistica, 1994.

Gernsheim, Helmut; edited by John X. Berger. Incunabula of British Photographic Literature: A Bibliography of British Photographic Literature 1839 - 75 and British Books Illustrated with Original Photographs. London: Scholar Press in association with Derbyshire College of Higher Education, 1984. 159 pp.; illus.

A bibliography of 635 titles which were illustrated with photographic prints tipped in. The Preface includes a good discussion of the use of illustration with original prints from 1843 - 1875. This volume is useful for access to books for which, because of the significance of their illustrations, the photographer is considered the primary author. [DLD]

Gernsheim, Helmut. The Origins of Photography. Rev. 3rd ed. Volume 1 in his series, The History of Photography. London: Thames and Hudson, 1982.

Gernsheim, Helmut. The Rise of Photography: 1850-1880, the Age of Collodion. Rev. 3rd ed. Volume 2 in his series, The History of Photography. London, New York: Thames & Hudson, 1988, c1987.

Houston, Penelope. Keepers of the Frame: The Film Archives. London: British Film Institute, 1994. 179 pp., illus.

Includes bibliographical references and index. A history of the conception and genesis of the film archives movement in (primarily) England and France. Includes management issues and inherent problems with film collections.

Jenkins, Reese V. Images and Enterprise: Technology and the American Photographic Industry, 1839 - 1925. Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins Press, c1975. Second printing, 1979. Paperback edition, 1987.

"A superb case study of the institutional response of American business to the coming of modern markets and modern technology. This book should be required reading for all historians concerned with the institutional development of the American economy and all economists interested in industrial organization and the theory of modern business enterprise. -- Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Technology and Culture

"Explores the business, technical, and social factors that transformed the American photographic industry . . . ." (Back cover, paperback ed.)

Lemagny, Jean-Claude, and André Rouillé. A History of Photography: Social and Cultural Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. First published as Histoire de la Photographie (Paris: Bolas, 1986).

McGreevey, Tom and Yeck, Joanne L. Our Movie Heritage. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997. 184 pp., 8 pgs. of plates, illus. (some color).

Includes bibliography and index. Explains basics of film preservation, interviews film archivists and preservation experts, gives a snapshot of the film/video preservation efforts and status in the 1990s, with a general call to arms for continued funding of the cause.

Mees, C. E. Kenneth. From Dry Plates to Ektachrome Film: A Story of Photographic Research. New York: Ziff-Davis, 1961.

Mees, C. E. Kenneth. Photography. New York: Macmillan, 1937. 227 pp., ill.

"This book, which had its origin in a course of lectures given last Christmas at the Royal Institution inLond, is intended to provide a general review of the whole subject of photography written in a simple and popular style." (Preface)

Neblette, C. B. Photography: Its Materials and Processes. New York: D. Van Nostrand, c1927. 2nd printing, 1928. Fifth edition, 1952. 6th edition, 1962.

"A manual of the theory and practice of photography designed for use in colleges, technical institutions and by the advanced student of science" (tp). (1st ed, 2nd printing, 1928.)

"Extensively revised with each edition, older editions deal with contemporaneous information in greater detail. Emphasis is on the technical aspects of the medium, with virtually no attention given to its aesthetics either as a fine art or commercial enterprise." (6th ed.)

Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present. 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; New York Graphic Society Books for the Museum of Modern Art, 1982.

Based on the exhibition catalog, Photography, 1839-1937, originally published in 1937, and first published in with revised and expanded text under its current title in 1938.

Newhall is a leading historian of photography. His opinions, largely influenced by Alfred Stieglitz, defined the aesthetics of the medium for most of the twentieth century. A distinct American bias, the work reflects a modernist interpretation of the medium's aesthetics, largely ignoring those areas of the medium not considered fine art. Important for understanding Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession. [RPM]

Rosenblum, Naomi. A History of Women Photographers: All You Need is Courage. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.

Rudisill, Richard. Mirror Image : The Influence of the Daguerreotype on American Society. [1st ed.] Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press [1971]. ix, 342 p., illus., bib.

Originally presented as the author's thesis, University of Minnesota, 1967.

Sandweiss, Martha A., ed. Photography in Nineteenth-Century America. Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum, and New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991. With essays by Alan Trachtenberg, Barbara McCandless, Martha A. Sandweiss, Keith F. Davis, Peter Bacon Hales, and Sarah Greenough.

Sargent, Ralph N. Preserving the Moving Image. [Washington]: Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts, 1974. 152 pp., illus., index.

Some background in the art of moving image preservation. A survey of opinion on conditions in the field. The prospects for new image technologies in the laboratory and in the marketplace.

Shaw, Susan. Overexposure: Health Hazards in Photography. Carmel, Calif.: Friends of Photography, 1983.

Sturgis, John, Vivian Walworth, and Allan Shepp, ed. Imaging Processes and Materials: Neblette's Eighth Edition. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989. xvi+712 pp., ill., bib., index.

A continuation C. B. Neblette's regularly revised Photographs: Its Materials and Processes, which changed titles under Sturgis' editorship of the seventh edition, Neblette's Handbook of Photography and Reprography: Materials, Systems, and Processes (1977).

Contents: 1. Introduction to images and imaging, 2. Electronic imaging, 3. Silver halide imaging, 4. Color photography, 5. Electrophotography, 6. Instant photography and related reprographic processes, 7. Polymer imaging, 8. Low amplification imaging systems, 9. Thermally processed silver systems, 10. Image scanning and digitization, 11. Image compression and transmission, 12. Image storage technologies, 13. Non-impact printing technologies, 14. Recording electronic images on film, 15. Aerial imaging systems, 16. Imaging for graphic arts, 17. Medical imaging, 18. Imaging for microfabrications, 19. A critique of imaging systems, 20. The stability and preservation of recorded images.

Taft, Robert. Photography and the American Scene: A Social History, 1839-1889. New York: Dover, 1964 (c1938).

An excellent source for information on the evolution of a medium in the country, with technical information on processes and biographical information on leading individuals in the medium.

Thomas, Alan. Time in a frame : photography and the nineteenth- century mind. New York : Schocken Books, 1977. 171 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 165-166.

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1C. Serials and Indices to Periodical Literature

Boni, Albert. Photographic Literature: An International Bibliographic Guide to General & Specialized Literature on Photographic Processes NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1962 and 1972. 2 volumes.

Peterson, Christian A. Index to the Annuals of the Pictorial Photographers of America. Minneapolis, MN: Christian Peterson, 1993.

Photographic Processes, Techniques, Theory, Chemistry, Physics, Apparatus, Materials & Applications, Industry, History, Biography, Aesthetics. New York: Morgan & Morgan in association with R. R. Bowker, 1962. 333 pp.

_____. Photographic Literature, 1960-1970: An International Bibliographic Guide to General & Specialized Literature on Photographic Processes, Techniques, Theory, Chemistry, Physics, Apparatus, Materials & Applications, Industry, History, Biography, Aesthetics, etc. [1st supplemental volume].

Hastings-on-Hudson: Morgan & Morgan, [1972]. 535 pp.

Compiled to aid research in the scientific aspects of photography, these volumes contain more than 12,000 citations to books, periodical articles, and pamphlets; arranged by subject headings. Included biographies of the most prominent persons in the field. [DLD]

History of Photography. London: Taylor & Francis. 1:1 (January 1977) to the present.

Heidtmann, Frank. Bibliographie der Photographie: deutschsprachige Publikationen der Jahre 1839-1984 ; Technik, Theorie, Bild = Bibliography of German-language photographic publications 1839-1934; technology, theory, visual. Müaut;nchen and New York: Saur, 1989. 2 v.

1st ed. has title: Die deutsche Photoliteratur 1839-1978.

Image. Rochester, New York: International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House. 1:1 (January 1952) to the present.

Imaging Abstracts. Elmsford, New York: Pergamon Press, 1988 -

_____. Also available on magnetic tape and via ORBIT search services.

Compiled and edited by the Scientific and Technical Group of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. More than 55,000 citations with abstracts of technical and scientific literature, including techniques and processing, theory, equipment, and film; worldwide coverage for all languages. Updated bimonthly, adding approximately 5,000 citations per year. [DLD]

An Index to Articles on Photography, 1978. William S. Johnson, ed. Rochester, New York: Visual Studies Workshop in collaboration with the Center for Creative Photography, 1980.

Continued by the International Photography Index.

International Photography Index. William S. Johnson, ed.; Susan E. Cohen, assoc. ed. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1979 - 1981.

Continues An Index to Articles on Photography. See entries under Johnson for related works.

Citations for English and other languages arranged topically. Approximately 6,000 citations per volume. [DLD]

Johnson, William S. Nineteenth-Century Photography: An Annotated Bibliography, 1839-1879. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990. xv+962 pp., index.

_____. London: Mansell, 1990.

See entries under International Photography Index for related works.

Almost 21,000 annotated bibliographic entries for books and periodical articles covering a wide range of publications. The works cited are about photography's first four decades, though they may have were written 1839 to the turn of the century; a proposed second volume will cover 1880 to 1918. Entries are arranged under headings for artist or author, history, locale, equipment, applications, and usage. [DLD]

Karpel, Bernard, ed. Arts in America: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Published for the Archives of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. 4 v.

V.1. Art of the Native Americans, architecture, decorative arts, design, sculptures, art of the West, v. 2. Painting and graphic arts, v.3. Photography, film, theater, dance, music, serials and periodicals, dissertations and theses, visual resources, v. 4. General index.

RILA : Répertoire International de la Littérature de l'Art = International Repertory of the Literature of Art. [Williamstown, Mass.]: J. Paul Getty Museum.

International in scope, containing some 11,000 citations in twelve languages from 1839 through the 1980s, this work includes exhibition catalogs, brochures, company literature, and off- prints from photographic and non-photographic periodicals. Arranged by subject headings and chronology. The editors tried to be comprehensive for works published before 1914, but they required later works to emphasize the history of photography and be substantive for original contributions to the field or in special topics. Useful for biographical information on photographers and individuals associated with the field, for bibliographic citations, and for historical research. [DLD]

Roosens, Laurent, and Luc Salu. History of Photography: A Bibliography of Books. London and New York: Mansell, 1989. 446 pp., index.

Sennett, Robert S. The Nineteenth-century Photographic Press: A Study Guide. New York: Garland, 1987. 97 p., index, bib. Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 694

Wilson Indexes.

Art Index. Bronx, New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1984 -.

Humanities Index. Bronx, New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1983 -      .

These indices are available in hardcopy, CD-ROM, and online; the electronic versions are updated twice weekly. Both include journal articles and book reviews; indexed by subject headings. [DLD]

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1D. Aesthetics, Criticism, and Interpretation

Adams, Robert. Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values. [Millerton, N.Y.]: Aperture, c1981. 110 pp., ill.

"These essays address us in the quiet voice of a working photographer, an artist and craftsman who has thought long and seriously about his endaeavor, who has tested and questioned his own assumptions in the light of actual practice." (Dust jacket)

Barthes, Roland; Richard Howard, trans. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. New York: Hill and Wang, c1981.

Originally published in French as La Chambre Claire, c1980. First American edition, 1981.

Batchen, Geoffrey. Burning With Desire : The Conception of Photography (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. xii, 273 pp., ill.

Coleman, A. D. Light Readings: A Photography Critic's Writings, 1968-1978. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Curtiss, Deborah. Introduction to visual literacy : a guide to the visual arts and communication. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1987. ix, 260 p., [9] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. 247-251.

Jay, Bill. Negative/Positive: A Philosophy of Photography. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, c1979. 138 pp., ill.

Jussim, Estelle; foreword by Beaumont Newhall. Visual Communication and the Graphic Arts: Photographic Technologies in the Nineteenth Century. New York : R.R. Bowker, 1983.xv, 364 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes index. Reprint. Originally published: New York : R.R. Bowker, 1974. With rev. preface. Bibliography: p. 331-337.

Malcolm, Janet. Diana & Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980.

"All of these essays originally appeared in The New Yorker, except for 'Assorted Characters of Death and Blight," which originally appeared in the New York Times." (Titlepage, verso)

Margolis, Eric. "Mining photographs: unearthing the meaning of historical photos." Radical History Review, (January 1988)32-48.

McLaughlin, Robert Bishop. "Evaluation of Historical Photographs: Considerations for Visual Resource Curators and Librarians in Museums and Archives," Art Documentation, 5:3.

Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-photographic Era. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992.

Peters, Marsha and Bernard Mergen. "`Doing the Rest:' The Uses of Photographs in American Studies. American Quarterly, 29:3 (1977) 280-303.

O'Connor, John E. (ed.). Image as Artifact: The Historical Analysis of Film and Television. Melbourne, FL: Krieger Publishing Company, 1990.

Co-published by the American Historical Association, this collection looks at film as a social phenomenon and as historical documentation. [Paul J. Eisloeffel]

Roskill, Mark W., and David Carrier. Truth and Falsehood in Visual Images. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1983. xiv, 145 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rudisill, Richard. "On Reading Photographs," Journal of American Culture 5:3 (Fall, 1982).

Schlereth, Thomas J. "Mirrors of the past: Historical Photography and American History," in Artifacts and the American Past. Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History, c1980. pp. 11-47.

Sontag, Susan. On Photography:

Trachtenberg, Alan. Reading American Photographs. Images as History. Matthew Brady to Walker Evans. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989.

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1E. Photographers (Biographies, Directories)

Beaton, Cecil, and Gail Buckland. The Magic Image: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975. 304 pp., illus.

Contains 208 critical biographies arranged roughly in the order of the subject's birth, accompanied by an alphabetical index to entries. Each subject is given a brief resume with an essay on his/her life and work and illustrations of work. Includes a short glossary. [DLD]

Browne, Turner, and Elaine Partnow. Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists & Innovators. New York: Macmillan; London: Collier Macmillan, c1983. 772 pp., illus.

More than 2,000 entries of photographers, teachers, chemists, writers, art dealers, photohistorians, lecturers, and others "whose contributions to the field have proved vital to its growth and advancement" (Preface). Roughly a quarter of the entries are historical, the remainder given to contemporary individuals. In addition to information about the individuals, includes publications by and about them, repositories holding their work, memberships, awards, dealers, and their addresses. [DLD]

Edwards, Gary. International Guide to Nineteenth-Century Photographers and Their Works. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988. 591 pp.

Compiled from more than 300 dealers catalogs published from 1903 to 1986. Entries for each photographer note their appearance in catalogs, if illustrated, the number of items in the lot, and if the catalog included notes. Edwards supplements each photographers' entry with nationality, dates, contributions to the field, processes used, and other similar information. [DLD]

Haynes, David. Catching Shadows : A Directory of 19th-Century Texas Photographers. Austin, Texas : Texas State Historical Association, 1993.

A checklist of nearly 2,500 photographers active in Texas between 1843 and 1900; drawn from censuses, city directories, and other sources. Entries arranged alphabetically, and include (when known) biographical information, active dates, and locations. Indexes by location and of black, women, and foreign- born photographers. [RPM]

Joseph, Steven et al. Directory of Photographers in Belgium 1839-1905. Antwerp: C. de Vries-Brouwers, 1996.

Kelbaugh, Ross J. Directory of Civil War Photographers (Vols. 1-3) Volume One: Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C., North Virginia, West Virginia; Volume Two: Pennsylvania, New Jersey; Volume Three: Western States and Territories. Baltimore, MD: Historic Graphics, 1990-1992.

Latour, Ira H., ed. Silver Shadows: A Directory and History, Early Photography in Chico and Twelve Counties of Northern California. Chico, CA: Chico Museum Association, 1993.

Mathews, Oliver. Early Photographs and Photographers: A Survey in Dictionary Form. London: Reedminster, 1973. 198 pp., illus.

Some 100 brief biographical entries noting the dates, nationality, and other basic facts on the subjects; the work is international in scope and emphasizes major nineteenth century photographers. [DLD]

Mattison, David. Camera Workers: The British Columbia Photographers Directory, 1858-1900. Victoria, B.C.: D. Mattison, 1985.

Mautz, Carl. Checklist of Western Photographers: A Reference Workbook. 3rd ed. Brownsville, Calif.: Folk Image Pub., 1986, c1975.

Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne. Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers. New York: Dodd, Mead, c1986.

Palmquist, Peter E. A Bibliography of Writings By and About Women in Photography. Arcata, Calif.: The author, 1990.

_____. 2nd ed. Arcata, CA: P. E. Palmquist, 1994.

Palmquist, Peter E., ed. Photographers: A Sourcebook for Historical Research. Brownsville, Calif.: Carl Mautz, 1992. 103 pp., illus.

Includes Richard Rudisill's "Directories of Photographers: An Annotated World Bibliography," an invaluable resource for locating biographical and career information about photographers. Arranged in two parts, published works and works in progress; each is arranged geographically.

Six other articles describe how to conduct biographical research using directories and other sources. [DLD]

Palmquist, Peter E. Shadow Catchers: A Directory of Women in California Photography Before 1901. Arcata, CA: P. E. Palmquist, 1990.

Robinson, Thomas. Oregon Photographers: Biographical History and Directory, 1852-1917. Portland, OR: Thomas Robinson, 1992.

Rudisill, Richard. Photographers of the New Mexico Territory, 1854 - 1912. [Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico, c1973.]

Rule, Amy (née Stark). Researching Photographers. Tucson, Ariz.: Center for Creative Photography, 1984.

Sennett, Robert S. Photography and Photographers to 1900: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1985.

A well-defined scope and classification system distinguishes this bibliography of 409 citations from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Organized by general works, early technical treatises, early theoretical treatises, monographs on photographers, early views and topographical surveys, and addendum. Annotated, with cross-references to other entries and sometimes with contemporary or retrospective reviews of the works by noted authorities. [DLD]

Steele, Chris, and Polito, Ron. A Directory of Massachusetts Photographers 1839-1990. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1990.

Sullivan, Goerge. Black Artists in Photography 1840-1940. New York: Cobblehill Books, 1996.

Walsh, George, Colin Naylor, and Michael Held, ed. Contemporary Photographers. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1982]. 837 pp., illus.

_____. Colin Naylor, ed. 2nd ed. London: St. James Press, Reference Publishers International, 1988. 1,145 pp., illus.

Biographies of the "best and most prominent" 750 photographers selected by an international board of advisers from a variety of photographic specialties. Also includes listings of individual and group exhibitions, collections, bibliographies of works by and about the photographer, and a critical essay. Living photographers were invited to submit a statement about their work, or photography in general, and a photograph. [DLD]

Willis-Thomas, Deborah. An Illustrated Bio-bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940 - 1988. New York: Garland, 1989. xiv, 483 pp., illus., bib. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; vol. 760.

Willis-Thomas, Deborah. Black Photographers, 1840 - 1940: An Illustrated Bio-bibliography. New York: Garland, 1985. 141 pp., illus. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities; vol. 401.

There are 65 biographies, divided into three chronological divisions which represent various formats and genres that were popular for a given period. The alphabetically arranged entries include the photographer's or studio's name, life and active dates, locale, principal subjects, processes used, extant collections, exhibitions, and a selected bibliography. Index by name, locale, and collections.

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2. Photographic Chemistry, Processes, and Technical Manuals

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3. Repository Guides/Catalogs

Burger, Barbara Lewis, comp. Guide to the Holdings of the Still Picture Branch of the National Archives. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1990.

Burrows, Elaine (ed.). The British Cinema Source Book: British Film Institute Archive Viewing Copies and Library Materials. London: British Film Institute, 1995. 216 pp., illus. (some color). Includes bibliographical references and indices.

Eskind, Andrew, and Greg Drake, eds. Index to American Photographic Collections: Compiled at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. 2nd ed. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1990. 701 pp.

Update of McQuaid and Wilson's 1982 index.

Based on 540 institutions and their collective total of 32,465 collections of photographs, this index can be used for biographical information on photographers or for listings of collections of their photographs. Includes the photographer's life dates, nationality, and number of images held by each institution. May be useful for establishing AACR2 name authority forms. [DLD]

Guide to the Photograph Collections of the San Diego Historical Society. Special Issue of Journal of San Diego History 44:2-3 (Spring/Summer 1998). 212 pp., ill.

Lovett, John R. and DeWitt, Donald L. Guide to Photographs, Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK: The Association of Western History Collections, 1993.

McQuaid, James, and Pauline Privitera Wilson, eds. An Index to American Photographic Collections: Compiled at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Boston, Mass: G. K. Hall, 1982.

See Andrew Eskind and Greg Davis for second edition.

Naef, Weston. The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Photographs Collection. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995.

O'Connor, Diane Vogt. Guide to Photographic Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989 -

The first three of five proposed volumes covering all the collections of photographs in the Smithsonian's vast holdings. Describes collections in terms of date, provenance, physical characteristics, subjects, arrangement, availability of captions, finding guides, and restrictions. Photographers are included in the descriptions. Indexed by creator, forms and processes, and subject.

v. 1. National Museum of American History (1989, 351 pp., illus.)

v. 2. National Museum of Natural History, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (1991, 245 pp.)

v. 3. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Freer Gallery of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Museum of African Art, National Museum of American Art, National Portrait Gallery, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Office of Horticulture (1992, xii, 342, [48] pp., illus.)

Oregon Historical Society. Union Guide to Photograph Collections in the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Oregon: the Society, 1978. xiii+417 pp., ill.

Includes collection-level descriptions from repositories in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

Pearce-Moses, Richard, comp. Photographic Collections in Texas: A Union Guide. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1987.

Pearce-Moses, Richard. Photographic Collections in the Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona: University Libraries, Arizona State University, 1990.

Ries, Linda A. Guide to Photographs at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania History and Museum Commission, 1992.

Roark, Carol E., Stewart, Paula Ann, and Mary Kennedy McCabe, comps. Catalogue of the Amon Carter Museum Photography Collection. Fort Worth, Tex.: Amon Carter Museum, 1993.

Siefried, Christopher, ed. Guide to Canadian Photographic Archives = Guide des Archives Photographiques Canadiennes. Ottawa: Public Archives, Canada, 1984.

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4. Tools for Photographic Archivists/Curators

4A. Preservation and Conservation

American National Standards Institute.

Various publications, typically classified under ANSI code PH4.

Clapp, Anne F. Reading List for Students in Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works on Paper and Photographs. 1980. 39 pp. Available from the AIC National Office, Washington, D.C.

Originally compiled in 1976 by Anne F. Clapp with contributions by Roy L. Perkinson, Antoinette King, Marjorie B. Cohn and Paul N. Banks. Amended in 1980 by Anne F. Clapp with the help of Roy L. Perkinson. The bibliography on the conservation of photographs was compiled by Jose Orraca. Edited by Mary S. Cash, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware.

Anderson, Stanton, and Ellison, Robert. "Natural Aging of Photographs" Journal of the American Institute of Conservation 31 (Summer, 1992): 213-223.

Eaton, George. "Preservation, deterioration, restoration of photographic images," Library Quarterly 40 (Jan 1980), pp. 85-98.

Espelt, Ramon (ed.). Protection and Preservation of Films. Oficina Catalana de Cinema, 1988. 229 pp., illus.

Gordon, Paul L. (contributing author). The Book of Film Care. Rochester, N.Y.: Eastman Kodak Co., 1983. 138 pp., illus. (some color).

Excellent technical (but easily understood) guide for handling, restoring, and preserving film. Heavily illustrated throughout, along with drawings, guides, tables, technical specifications and recommendations. Excellent appendices and bibliographic references. No index.

Guidelines for Electronic Preservation of Visual Materials. Revision 1.1. Washington, D.C.: Berkeley, CA: Picture Elements, Inc., 1995.

Hendriks, Klaus B. and Whitehurst, Anne. Conservation of Photographic Materials. Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1990.

Hendriks, Klaus B., and Brian Lesser, "Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: Photographic Materials," in American Archivist 46:1 (Winter 1983), pp. 52-68.

Hendriks, Klaus B.; with Brian Thurgood, Joe Iracl, Brian Lesser, and Greg Hill. Fundamentals of Photograph Conservation: A Study Guide. Toronto: Lugus Publications in cooperation with the National Archives of Canada and the Canadian Communications Group-Publishing, Supply, and Service, 1991.

Horvath, David. "The Acetate Negative Survey: Final Report:" A Project Funded by the University of Louisville and the National Museum Act. Louisville, Ky: Photographic Archives, Eckstron Library, University of Louisville, 1987.

Unpublished report which received limited distribution. A history and analysis of acetate negatives, their stability, and recommendations for preservation. Includes a guide to notch codes. 91 pp.

IPI Storage Guide for Acetate Film. Rochester, NY: Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1993. [Paul J. Eisloeffel]

Jones, Craig A. 16mm Motion Picture Film Maintenance Manual. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1983. Edited by the Publications Committee of the Consortium of University Film Centers. 114 pp., illus. (some color), index.

Excellent manual for handling of and making repairs to 16mm film. Numerous clear drawings and photographic illustrations of the film structure and steps to cleaning and repairing film. Glossary of terms, index, sample forms.

Lesk, Michael. Image Formats for Preservation and Access: A Report of the Technology Assessment Advisory Committee to the Commission on Preservation and Access. Washington, D.C.: the Commission, 1990. 10 pp.

Introduction and assessment of alternative means of preservation, including deacidification, microfilm, digital imagery, and conversion to ASCII. Emphasis is on the problems of electronic storage, including magnetic disk, optical WORM, digital video tape, digital audio tape, conventional magnetic tape, CD-ROM, magneto-optical erasable disk, and digital paper.

McCarthy, Paul H., and R. Bruce Parham. "Photomicrofiche: A Conservation Tool," Microform Review 16:2 (Spring 1987), 8 pp.

Orth, Thomas, and John Sippel; Patricia Knittel, ed. A Selected Bibliography on Photographic Conservation, January 1975- December 1980. Rochester, N.Y.: Technical and Education

Parker, Elisabeth Betz. "The Library of Congress Non-Print Optical Disk Pilot Program," Information Technology and Libraries 4:4 (Dec 1985), 11 pp.

PhotographiConservation. v. 1-7, no. 2; Mar. 1979-June 1985. [Rochester, N.Y.] Graphic Arts Research Center, Rochester Institute of Technology. 7 v. ill. 28 cm.

Quarterly "A forum of photographic preservation & restoration." Vols. for Mar. 1979- issued by the Rochester Institute of Technology, Graphic Arts Research Center; by its Technical and Education Center of the Graphic Arts.

Poro, Jennifer, ed. Photograph Preservation and the Research Library. Moutain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, 1991.

Proceedings of Conservation in Archives. International Symposium, Ottawa, May 10-12, 1988.

Reilly, James M. Care and Identification of 19th-Century Photographic Prints. Rochester, New York: Eastman Kodak, 1986. Kodak publication G-2S.

Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers. Second International Symposium: The Stability and Preservation of Photographic Images. Springfield, Va.: Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers, 1985.

Wilhelm, Henry, with Carol Brower. The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures. Grinnell, Iowa: Preservation Publishing Co., 1993.

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4B. Archives and Collections Management: General Works

Bowser, Eileen, and John Kuiper, eds. A Handbook for Film Archives. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991. 194 pp., illus.

Based on the experiences of members of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and published by the FIAF Secretariat, Brussels, 1991. Primarily concerned with film, but includes videotape and videodisc as well. Covers acquisition and selection criteria and policies, preservation problems and techniques, conservation treatments, identification of materials, management, collections control, documentation, cataloging, storage, handling, copyright. An appendix on the collection of film apparatus and thirty pages of photographs and illustrations follow the text. No index.

Davidson, Steven, and Gregory Lukow (eds.). The Administration of Television Newsfilm and Videotape Collections: A Curatorial Manual. Los Angeles, CA: American Film Institute, and Miami, FL: Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, 1997. [Paul J. Eisloeffel]

Describing archival Materials: The Use of the MARC AMC Format (Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 11:3-4). A special double-issue.

Getty Art History Information Program. Art and Architecture Thesaurus (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

_____. 2nd ed. >. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Also available in electronic form and on the Internet.

Orbach, Barbara. "So That Others May See: Tools for Cataloging Still Images," Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 11:3-4 (Spring 1990).

Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn, Gerald J. Munoff, and Margery S. Long. Archives and Manuscripts: Administration of Photographic Collections. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1984.

Shatford, Sara. "Describing a Picture: A Thousand Words are Seldom Cost Effective," Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 4:4.

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4C. Cataloging Standards and Tools

Betz, Elisabeth W. Graphic Materials: Rules for Describing Original Items and Historical Collections. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1982.

Baldwin, George. Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms. Malibu, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Museum, 1991.

A dictionary of photographic terms with definitions and a brief historical context, many illustrated. Includes terms useful for identifying processes, physical characteristics, and image-making techniques. Does not include topical subject headings or genres.

Katcher, Phillip. "How to date a photograph from its mat," PSA Journal 44:8 (Aug 1978), p. 26. Available from TEC/GA/RIT #R3155-81.

Parker, Elisabeth Betz. LC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: Topical Headings for Subject Access. Washington: Library of Congress, 1987.

Petersen, Toni, and Pat Molholt. Beyond the Book: Extending MARC for Subject Access. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990. ix, 279 pp., illus.

Scheinmann, David. "How to date the carte-de-visite," PSA Journal 44:9 (September 1978), pp. 22-23. TEC/GA/RIT #3190- 81.

Shaw, Renata. Picture organization: practices and procedures. Special Libraries, 63(1972)448-456, 502-506.

Weinstein, Robert A., and Larry Booth. Collection, Use, and Care of Historical Photographs. 2nd printing. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1978, 1977. 224 p., ill., index, bib.

Zinkham, Helena, and Elisabeth Betz Parker. Genre/Form and Physical Characteristics Terms: A Thesaurus for Prints, Photographs, Drawings, Ephemera, and Other Graphic Materials. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1986.

Genres and physical characteristics intended to be used as headings in catalogs. This list is authorized for use in MARC fields 655 and 755 on most shared cataloging utilities such as OCLC and RLIN.

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4D. Guides to Identify Processes and Formats

Darrah, William Culp. Cartes-de-Visite in Nineteenth-Century Photography. Gettysburg, PA: W.C. Darrah, 1981.

Darrah, William Culp. Stereoviews, A History of Stereographs in America and their Collection. Gettysburg, PA.: W.C. Darrah, 1964.

Heron, Michal, and MacTavish, David. Pricing Photography (Second Edition). New York: Allworth Press, 1997.

Krainik, Clifford and Michele, and Walvoord, Carl. Union Cases: A Collector's Guide to the Art of America's First PlasticsGrantsburg, WI: Krainik Gallery, 1988.

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