Resource Guide:
Digital Photography

• Open Content Photography Program
• Photography 101
• The Photographer’s Guide to Copyright
• The Ultimate Field Guide to Photography (from National Geographic)
• Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud - Revised Edition
• Introductory Photography Course

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
• National Archives Digital Photography Collections
• International Center of Photography Library
• Photography Database
• Women Photograph
• The Aperture Foundation
• The ArtCyclopedia
• The Online Photography Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago
• Masters of Photography

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Photography
• Photographers
• Photography -- Technique
• Photography -- Handbooks, manuals
• Photographers -- Biography
• Documentary photography
• Photography -- Social Aspects
• Photography -- Digital Techniques
• Wildlife photography

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• JSTOR
• National Gallery Collection
• Oxford Bibliographies Online

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Smart Photography
• Studies in Photography
• MASTERING Digital Photography
• Studio and Location Photography
• Studio Photography and Design

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.