ARS282: Photography I: Find Books, Catalogs & Media

Complete browsing guide to the arrangement of the books, exhibition catalogs, journals, and other resources in Hillyer Art Library

TR: Photography

• 15  General history of photography
• 21-126  History of the photography of specific countries
• 140  Biographies of individual photographers
• 287-500  Photographic processing, darkroom techniques
• 510-545  Color photography
• 640-685  Artistic photography, works about individual photographers
• 690  Commercial photography
• 800  Journalism, pictorial
• 925  Photomechanical reproduction processes

Five College Library Catalog

BY SUBJECT
Use the SUBJECT terms below to find books and exhibition catalogs in the Five College library collections:

Photographers

• [photographer's name], eg. White, Minor |
  Exhibitions | Criticism and Interpretation | Catalogs | Interviews
  Influence 
• Photographers--Biography

History of Photography

• Photography, Artistic
• Photography--History | Photography--[name of country]--History

Photographic Methods & Processes

• Black-and-white photography | Color photography
• Photography--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Photography-- Processing | Printing processes
  Developing and developers | Special effects
• View cameras | 35mm cameras | Single lens reflex cameras
  Medium format cameras | Photography--Pinhole
  Digital cameras | Photography--Digital techniques
   

SUBJECT SUB-HEADINGS for Well Illustrated Publications including Photo Books

• Photographs | Illustrations
• Photography of [subject]
  eg., Photography of birds
• Pictorial works 
  eg., Circus -- India --Pictorial works
• Portraits
  eg., High school students -- Portraits
• In art | Exhibitions
   

BY AUTHOR
Use the photographer's name as an AUTHOR to find

• books and catalogs with text by the photographer
• books and catalogs that are collections of images by her/him

Visual Browse is a new way to explore and discover library materials in the Five College Library Catalog allowing you to virtually browse the shelves or to search for a particular book or media. Like the traditional catalog, you can browse or search across all five colleges or limit your search to Smith.

Visual Browse pulls in content from outside services including book previews and reviews, descriptions, author bios, movie trailers to provide more information about the book and its author.

• New art and photo books 
  "Visual Browse" for recent acquisitions for all Five College Libraries 
• New books display: "Check out our new books" display by the red chairs on the first floor.
• Suggest a purchase: Suggest a book or catalog for addition to the Hillyer collection.