Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art                [Oxford Reference Online] Oxford University Press, 2003.
"Broad coverage of painting, sculpture, and graphic art, encompassing all the major movements and styles of the twentieth-century... although concentrating on the great names, it is not confined to the mainstream of modern art,  and features many of the interesting figures at the periphery of modern art."              

Digital Photography: A No-Nonsense, Jargon-Free Guide for Beginners, Collins & Brown, 2000.  
Lower Level, Circulating Collection: 778.3 B329D

The Oxford Companion to the Photograph [Oxford Reference Online], Oxford University Press, 2005. 

The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists, [Oxford Reference Online] Oxford University Press, 2007.

An indispensable biographical and critical guide to American art from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism also providing entries on notable American institutions, organizations, schools, techniques, styles, and movements, while examining important individuals connected to the art scene like collectors and critics.

The Oxford Companion to the Photograph [Oxford Reference Online], Oxford University Press, 2005.
Includes over 800 biographical entries, both on photographers and on others who have influenced photographic culture from the 19th century to the present.

THOMCAT

Use ThomCat, the online catalog, to locate books and other items in the Thomason Library. You can search by author, title, keyword, or subject.

• Search for a person, as AUTHOR or SUBJECT, with last name, first name:              

• SUBJECT searching requires use of Library of Congress subject headings. The terms below are examples of subject headings relevant to photography.           

Subject searching is an effective and precise method of searching the catalog, however, KEYWORD searching has benefits, also.

• If you are unsure of the exact title or the correct subject heading to use, try a KEYWORD search using two or three of the most significant words from the title or subject you are trying to find. Place phrases in "quotation marks."
  
  
• Connect words with AND, OR, NOT to focus your search.

• Try truncation at the end of a word stem to retrieve singular, plural, and other variations of the word.  Use an asterisk (*) to truncate from 1 to 5 characters. Use a double asterisk (**) to include word endings with an unlimited number of characters.

PASCALCAT -If you need books in addition to those found at Thomason Library, try your search here for books in other academic libraries in SC. Through PASCAL Delivers, you can order books online for delivery within 3-4 working days. This service for current PC students, faculty, and staff is a project of PASCAL- Partnership Among SC Academic Libraries. Borrowers will be notified by e-mail when requested items arrive at Thomason Library. Click here for searching and ordering tips.

WorldCat – A catalog of books and materials at libraries worldwide. Try searching here to find ALL books available on a topic. Materials available at Thomason Library are highlighted and others can be borrowed through ILL or searched in PASCALCAT.

Interlibrary Loan - ILL is available to PC students, faculty and staff in order to share resources between libraries. Check here for instructions.

The following journal databases are available to PC students, faculty, and staff from on- and off-campus locations.  Search using terms dealing with your topic.

Academic OneFile [Thomson Gale]
Multidisciplinary full-text articles from scholarly sources.

Academic Search Premier [EBSCO] 
EBSCOhost's journal and magazine articles from all academic disciplines.

JSTOR
Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, & III contain an archive of over 350 full-text journals which are searchable through JSTOR or accessible through Journal Finder, which provides full-text articles in Thomason Library's electronic databases. The collections include journals in art, architecture, economics, film, folklore, history, performing arts, political science, religion, sociology, humanities, mathematics, and statistics.

Project MUSE 
Current and recent volumes of 111 core journals in the humanities and social sciences

Aperture Fine art photography magazine		B&W:  Black & White Magazine for Collectors of Fine Photography
American Photo		Afterimage

Afterimage
Published by the Visual Studies Workshop. Contains news, reports, essays, and reviews that discuss and analyze independent photography, film, electronic imaging, alternative publishing and telecommunications.

American Photo 
Advertising, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Student Work, Editorial & Personal Works.

Aperture

Fine art photography magazine

B&W:  Black & White Magazine for Collectors of Fine Photography 

B&W also provides a free online  gallery.

Petersen’s Photographic
A consumer magazine focusing on improving the skills of hobby photographers. Articles include topics on amateur photographers, digital imaging, product reviews, news, and tips.. Note: Ceased publication in 2005. Back issues for 1983-2005 available through Academic OneFile [InfoTrac].

Photo District News

The following library databases can be accessed from on campus (no password required) and off-campus (use PC email login) for students and staff:

ARTstor
Initiated at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the ARTstor Digital Library is comprised of approximately 300,000 digital images of visual material from different time-periods, cultures, and disciplines derived from several source collections that are the product of collaborations with libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars.  These source collections include The Carnegie Arts of the U. S., The Huntington Archive of Asian Art, The Illustrated Bartsch, The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, and The Museum of Modern Art (New York) Architecture and Design Collection. ARTstor provides a wide range of visual materials for educational and scholarly use, and broader access to images of important art, architecture, design and archeological objects.

Bridgeman Art Library Archive [CREDO Reference], Bridgeman Art Library, 2008. An outstanding archive of images drawn from collections throughout the world. Every subject, concept, style and medium is represented, from the masterpieces of national museums to the hidden treasures of private collections. Fine art as well as design, antiques, maps, architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, anthropological artefacts and many others are featured in the collection.

American Memory Project [Library of Congress]

American Photography: A Century of Images [PBS]
Also available, Lower Level: VIDEO 770.973 Am35A [3 parts] & Book 770.973 G564A
A history of U.S. society, culture, and politics as seen through photographers' eyes. Browse through sections on art, photography and war, digital truth, presidential imagemaking, persuasion, social change, and cultural identity and see the impact of photographs. The photomontage in the Image Lab requires Shockwave and Flash. It includes demonstrations of methods of manipulating the ideas presented in a photograph.

Aperture Foundation
The premier not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to advancing fine photography—was founded in 1952 by six profoundly gifted individuals possessed of lofty ideals and high ambition: photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Minor White; historian Beaumont Newhall; and writer/curator Nancy Newhall. With scant resources, these prescient artists created a new periodical, Aperture magazine, to serve the medium, and photography users and fine art lovers worldwide.

Artcyclopedia [John Malyon]
Their mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet by providing a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources while claiming to be "the fastest way to search the Net for information about fine artists."

Art Resources on the Web: Image Databases [Cornish College of the Arts]
A list of additional image databases on the web.

Art-Support.com [Dan Fear]
”Features articles about the business of art and photography, tips on selling art, pointers on how to exhibit art, and ideas on how to promote and market artworks. There's information about artist copyright, artist grants, photography events, photography magazines and much more. You'll also find the most up-to-date listing of photography galleries, museums and non-profit photography organizations on the Internet.” Fine Art Photography and Art Links

Center for Creative Photography [University of Arizona]

An archive and research center retaining the archives of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Harry Callahan, and other great 20th century photographers—over fifty archives in all.

The Center for Fine Art Photography 
Promotes the Art of Photography by supporting the growth of creative artists through exhibitions, educational programs and by educating the public to the collectable value of photography.

The Essential Resources for Visual Resources Professionals - Images [University of Michigan]

Helios Photography Online [Smithsonian American Art Museum]

Image Collections and Online Art – Photography [Mother, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan]

International Center for Photography
A world-class museum and school dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the photographic medium through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs. ICP presents a wide range of historical and contemporary photographs in its acclaimed exhibitions, and houses a collection of more than 100,000 original prints that span the history of photography. The School at ICP offers full-time master's and certificate programs, as well as part-time and adult coursework. Site includes [resources] library; Photomuse, a site providing access to exhibitions of the George Eastman House Alliance; photo tips; industry resources; and photography links.

Magnum Photos  
Formed by four photographers - Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour – in 1947.  Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. With powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events, issues and personalities. Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, and a network of fifteen sub-agents, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, television, galleries and museums across the world.

The Magnum Photos library is a living archive updated daily with new work from across the globe. The library houses all the work produced by Magnum photographers and some special collections by non-members. There are approximately one million photographs in both print and transparency in the physical library, with 350,000 images available online.

National Geographic Photo Galleries [National Geographic Society]

Photographers Gallery  [Photographers Gallery, Los Angeles, CA]
Commercial site good for browsing. Offers photographic prints for sale. Good mixture of contemporary and mid-19th century works.

Photography Now  Categories include "Masters of Photography," "Selected Contemporary Artists," "International Photography Index."

Prints & Photographs Reading Room [Library of Congress]

The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) provides access through group or item records to more than 50% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about one million digital images in all. See also Library of Congress’ Visual Image Web Sites Archive.

Web Gallery of Art
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries, this site intended to be a free resource of art history primarily for students and teachers. It is a private initiative not related to any museums or art institutions, and not supported financially by any state or corporate sponsors while striving to use authentic literature and advice from professionals, to ensure the quality and authenticity of the content.

DIRC - Digital Image Rights Computator
The DIRC program functions through a series of query pages, each of which directs the user to provide input about one specific aspect of a given image’s rights profile.

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Art Photography Today 
“Non-Profit Photography Organizations” page. From description: “Here's a listing of important non-profit photography organizations located around the United States. List order is alphabetical by state. Photography museums are also a major group of non-profits, however they are not listed. Museum specializing in photography will be listed in the future.”

College Art Association (CAA)

Frank Niemeir's Photography List: Organizations
Niemeir, a staff photographer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, lists over 300 photography organizations with links to each. Includes advertising, journalism, professional and international associations.

Nonprofit Art Organizations & Art Centers [Art-support.com]
”Nonprofit photography art organizations and community art centers. If an address is listed, it indicates that they have a strong interest in fine art photography. Also listed on this page are other nonprofit art organizations and a few city and state art agencies.”

Society for Photographic Education (SPE)
A non-profit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography-related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight. Through its interdisciplinary programs, services and publications, the society seeks to promote a broader understanding of the medium in all its forms, and to foster the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism.

Visual Resources Association [The International Association of Image Media Professionals]