Photojournalism Resources for Research

University of Missouri-Columbia Journalism Library

BOOKS

Online Catalog (Merlin) go to laurel.lso.missouri.edu

Subjects to look under:

·        Photographers --Biography

·        Photography--Biography

·        Photography--History

·        Photography--United States or Germany etc.

·        Photojournalism

Subject search for the name of photographer

·        i.e. Brady, M  for  Mathew Brady

·        Mann, Sally

Keyword search.  Try entering key words you are interested in such as:  (Note: use the asterisk when searching for word stem endings and use parenthesis when doing a keyword search)

·        (biograph* and photographer*)

·        (War photograph*)

·        (history photography)

·        (photography england)

·        (photojournalis* or photographer*)

Photojournalism Encyclopedias and Historical Works

·        The encyclopedia of photography : an A-to-Z visual directory, with an inspirational gallery of finished works / Adrian Davies.  MU JOUR REF  TR146 .D248 2000 

·        The photography encyclopedia / Fred W. McDarrah and Gloria S. McDarrah.  New York : Schirmer Books, c1999.  MU JOUR REF TR9 .M39 1999 .

·        American Image:  Photographing One Hundred Years in the Life of a Nation by Martin Sandler, 1989.  JOUR TR23 .S33 1989.

·        Encyclopedia of Photography by ICP, International Center of Photography, 1984. JOUR TR9.I24 1984.

·        Encyclopedia of Photography by Bernard Edward Jones, 1974. JOUR-R TR9.J6 1974.

·        Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America, by Marianne Fulton, 1988. Reserve.  

JOUR TR 820 .E845 1988.

·        The Focal encyclopedia of photography / edited by Leslie Stroebel and Richard Zakia.  Boston : Focal Press, c1993. 3^rd Ed.  MU JOUR REF TR9 .F6 1993 .

·        History of Photography: from 1839 to the present by Beaumont Newhall.  Reserve. JOUR TR15 .N47 1982.

·        Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators. 1983.  ELLIS TR 139 .B767 1993.

·        Nineteenth-Century Photography:  An Annotated Bibliography  by William, Johnson, 1990. 

JOUR-R TR15 .J64 1990.

·        One Hundred Years of Photographic History by Van Deren Coke, 1975.  JOUR TR15. O53.

·        Shadow and Substance:  Essays on the History of Photography edited by Kathleen Collins 1990.  JOUR TR15 .S48 1990.

·        International Guide to Nineteenth-Century Photographers and Their Works: Based on Catalogues of Auction Houses and Dealers / by Edwards, Gary,  1988.  JOUR-R  TR 15 .E48 1988.

·        Photographers: A Sourcebook for Historical Research  Richard Rudisill ..[et al.] ; [edited by Peter  E. Palmquist]. 1991. JOUR-R  TR15 .P477 1991 & 2000.

BIOGRAPHICAL  SOURCES

·        American Photographers:  An Illustrated Who's Who Among Leading Contemporary Americans edited by Les Krantz, 1989.  JOUR-R  TR139 .K73 1989.

·        An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers, 1940-1988 by Deborah Willis-Thomas, 1989.  JOUR-R TR139.W55 1989.

·        Black Photographers, 1840-1940:  An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography by Deborah Willis-Thomas, 1985.  JOUR   TR139.W55 1985.

·        Contemporary Photographers edited by Colin Naylor, 1988. JOUR-R TR139 .C663 1983 & 1988 & 1995.

·        International Guide to Nineteenth-Century Photographers and Their Works: based on Catalogues of Auction Houses and Dealers by Gary Edwards, 1988.  JOUR-R TR15.E48 1988.

·        New York Times Obituaries from 1996 – present -   http://www.nytimes.com/pages/obituaries/

·        A History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s  - http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/  

·        Masters of Photography - http://masters-of-photography.com/

INDEXES (print and online) For online databases go to: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/journalism/databases.htm or use Ellis library’s alphabetical list at: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/search/databases/main.asp

·        Art & Humanities – FirstSearch database. 

·        ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)  - ELLIS REFERENCE   Z5935 .L642.

·        Art Index   - WilsonWeb database.

·        Art Literature International, RILA  -  ELLIS REFERENCE N1.A1 .I57  Located on Ellis Ref CD-ROM area

·        Arts & Humanities – Web of Science database.

·        Encyclopedias – Grolier, Encyclopedia Americana online.

·        FIAF – International Film and Television -SilverPlatter database. 

·        Expanded Academic Index  - InfoTrac database.

·        Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe database.

·        Ovid databases – ERIC, PAIS, PsychInfo, Sociofile.

Database Help

Truncation for Databases  (to find word stem endings)

·       Encyclopedias use the *

·       FirstSearch uses the *

·       Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe uses the !

·       InfoTrac uses the *

·       Merlin uses the *

·       Ovid uses the $

·       SilverPlatter uses the *

·       Web of Science uses the *

·       WilsonWeb uses the *

Break down your search into main concepts

Say you want to find information on the selection and use of news photographs – You would

break your search down into these concepts:  Can be as many main concepts as you need. 

Concept 1                                Concept 2                                 Concept 3

Photo                                   news*                                select*

  Or                  And                                           And                      Or

Photos                                                                            use

  Or                                                                                                 Or

Photograph*                                                                 gatekeep* (notice truncation)

Boolean Connectors –Using And and OR

AND is the best way to narrow down your search. 
Example: photography and criticism

Use OR to search for articles which contain any of your search terms.
Example: photo or photographs

OR is often used to broaden a search by linking together a number of synonyms.

In complex searches use parentheses to nest similar search terms linked by OR.
Example: documentar* and (photo or photos or photograph* or photojournalis*)

Retrieves all entries which contain the words "documentary or documentaries" and "all of the photo terms," plus all entries

(Like several AND searches for the price of one!)

If you need to find out if a journal article is a trade publication or a scholarly/academic publication go to our database page for Iowa Guide to Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication or Ulrich’s International Periodical Directory . 

Sue Schuermann

Summer 2005