Biographical Dictionaries

CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHERS. DAAP REFERENCE TR 139.C664 1995
This is currently the most complete biographical dictionary for photographic research. Over 600 entries with illustrations, biographical sketches, bibliography, list of exhibitions, signed critical essay, and statement by the photographer. Emphasis on twentieth century photographers, but some major nineteenth century photographers included.

FOCAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHOTOGRAPHY. DAAP REFERENCE TR9.F6 1969
Two-volume encyclopedia containing short definitions, major articles, and biographical sketches. First published in 1956. Named contributors include Harold Edgerton, the Gernsheims, and L. Fritz Gruber. Biographical entries include dates, accomplishments, and sources. A good source for information on commercial and non "art" photographers,specifically if they are Britsh.

MACMILLAN BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTISTS AND INNOVATORS. DAAP REFERENCE TR139.B767 1983
Alphabetic list of more than 2,000 biographies assembled through questionnaires to museums and galleries. Entry includes dates, activities, publications, collections, dealers, addresses, and 144 color and black-and-white plates. Photographers, educators, curators, critics, dealers, and others in the field of photography are included. Geographic list of museums and galleries found at end of volume.

AN ILLUSTRATED BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS 1940-1988. DAAP REFERENCE TR139.W55 1989
This publication and its' companion volume, BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS: 1840-1940, are essential source books for the study of individual black photographers. Entries include biographical information as well as selected bibliography.

Indexes & Abstracts

ART ABSTRACTS. 1929 to present
Index to foreign and domestic art periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Indexes the following photography magazines:

Afterimage
Aperture
British Journal of Photography
Camera,
Creative Camera
History of Photography
Image
Photographic Journal

plus art magazines that often include articles on photography. Arranged alphabetically by authors and subjects. Book review index at end of each issue.

ARTBIBLIOGRAPHIES MODERN. 1972-.
Index to domestic and foreign exhibition catalogs, periodicals, and books. Indexes the following photography magazines, as well as art magazines that often include articles on photography:

AFTERIMAGE
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY
CAMERA
EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY
OCTOBER
PETERSEN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
Contains abstracts. Located on the DAAP Reference Index Shelves. Please see a library staff member for further information.

General Histories Containing Biographical Information

Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison. THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE CAMERA OBSCURA TO THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ERA. 2nd Edition. New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 1969. TR15.G37 1969 (Southwest Depository)
Encyclopedic history of photography as an art. First published in 1955. Extensive index includes photographers' names and dates, subjects, processes, and much more. Lengthy bibliographic notes and illustrations. Names are highlighted in the text, making scanning easier. The revised and expanded version will be published in two parts. The English edition of part one, The Origins of Photography, appeared in 1983.

Newhall, Beaumont. THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM 1839 TO THE PRESENT. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1982.
TR15.N47 1982 (DAAP Reserves)
Photography from its pre-history to the 1970's written by an American scholar trained in traditional art history. First published in 1937. Includes chapters in color, photojournalism, and artistic photography, as well as an extensive bibliography and index to photographers.

Pollack, Peter. THE PICTURE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY: FROM THE EARLIEST BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT DAY. Revised and enlarged edition. New York: Abrams, 1977. TR15.P55 1977 (DAAP Oversize)
Broad historical survey with brief text, concise bibliography, and a full index to photographers. Most valuable for its hundreds of illustrations. Biographical details given only for the photographers spotlighted in the text.

Special Subjects
Jammes, Andre and Eugenia Parry Janis. THE ART OF THE FRENCH CALOTYPE: WITH A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF PHOTOGRAPHERS, 1845-1870. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. TR71.J35 1983 (Southwest Depository)
Extensive, exhaustively researched notes on French photographers. Each entry includes birthplace, societies, awards, exhibitions, address of photographer's businesses, and extensive bibliographies. Excellent reproductions.

Naef, Westom. THE COLLECTION OF ALFRED STIEGLITZ: 50 PIONEERS OF MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Viking Press, 1978. TR646.U6 N48
Description of the photographic collection of Alfred Stieglitz including biographies of the photographers represented. Each entry is made up of a portrait of the photographer, facsimile signature, chronology, exhibition list, and bibliography.

WOMEN OF PHOTOGRAPHY: AN HISTORICAL SURVEY. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1975. TR646.U6 S368 1975 (DAAP Oversize)
Biographical sketches for 50 photographers born between 1815 and 1950. Includes checklist of exhibition curated by Margery Mann and Anne Noggle.

Collections of Photographers' Writings and Interviews

Daimonstein, Barbaralee. VISIONS AND IMAGES: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS ON PHOTOGRAPHY. New York: Rizzoli, 1981. TR147.V53 1982 OMI/CAS
Harry Callahan, Cornell Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Elliott Erwitt, Horst P. Horst, Andre Kertesz, Ray Metzker, Joel Meyerowitz, Duane Michals, Barbara Morgan, Arnold Newman, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, Burk Uzzle and Garry Winogrand.

Dugan, Thomas. PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN COVERS. Rochester: Light Impressions, 1983. TR147.D83 (DAAP Stacks)
Syl Labrot, Nathan Lyons, Ralph Gibson, Larry Clark, Keith Smith, Joan Lyons, Eikoh Hosoe, Bea Nettles, Duane Michals, George Tice, Robert Adams, Scott Hyde, A.D. Coleman, David Godine, and Sid Rapoport.

Hill, Paul and Thomas Cooper. DIALOGUE WITH PHOTOGRAPHY. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1992. TR139.D52 1992 (DAAP Stacks)
Paul Strand, Man Ray, Cecil Beaton, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Brassai, Andre Kertesz, George Rodger, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Herbert Bayer, Henry Holmes Smith, Helmut Gernsheim, Brett Weston, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and Eliot Porter originally appeared in Camera magazine, W. Eugene Smith, Laura Gilpin, Imogen Cunningham, Wynn Bullock, Minor White, Beaumont Newhall, and Ansel Adams.

Lyons, Nathan. PHOTOGRAPHERS ON PHOTOGRAPHY: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966. TR185.L9 (Langsam Stacks)
Essay by 23 photographers, 1889-1963. Biographical notes on pages 177-90.

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