Photography: Home
Online Publications in Our Databases
Flipster is a great tool for reading publications online and through their app. Current issues and an archive of back issues are available for the following photography related publications:
- Exact Editions Magazines This link opens in a new window
Includes magazine archives for Aesthetica, AnOther, Another Man, Art Monthly, Cineaste, Cover, Creative Review, Dazed, Foam, and Sight & Sound.
The New York Times is also fully accessible as an SVA affiliated student or faculty member. This link aggregates all photography content from the NYTIMES.
Check out the databases below for lots of articles, reviews and essays on photography.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full text scholarly database of 2,800 multidisciplinary titles focused on the arts, humanities and social sciences.
- Harper's Bazaar Archive This link opens in a new window
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
Browse Images
If your looking for images you can search our databases and other online archives listed below:
- Artstor This link opens in a new window
- NYPL Digital Gallery This link opens in a new window
- Colourbox This link opens in a new window
Periodicals
A number of magazines and journals on photography are in our collection at the library. However, due to COVID-19 limitations, periodicals are not browsable. Please contact a librarian via chat or here if you are looking for a particular article.
Women Photographers
Women have made significant contributions to photography since its inception. Here are some photography books by women in our collection:
- Berenice Abbott: Portraits of ModernityPublication Date: 2019
- Diane ArbusPublication Date: 2016
- Lola Alvarez Bravo byPublication Date: 2006
- Rineke Dijkstra: the Louisiana BookPublication Date: 2018
- Nan GoldinPublication Date: 2010
- Annie Leibovitz at Work byPublication Date: 2018
- Helen LevittPublication Date: 2008
- Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table SeriesPublication Date: 2016
- Shirin Neshat byPublication Date: 2013
- Graciela Iturbide's MexicoPublication Date: 2019
- Lorna SimpsonPublication Date: 2013
Ebooks
Here are a few available ebooks from Proquest. There are many more in the Proquest ebook library about photography, photographers and many related topics. Enter your search terms on the site's search bar and discover different titles on demand. Once you input a search, make sure to tick off the option "Owned and subscribed to by my library" on the left hand side's delimiter table under 'Book Status.'
- Photography after Photography byPublication Date: 2017
- Stories from the Camera byPublication Date: 2016
- Image Operations byPublication Date: 2016
- Awakening the Eye byPublication Date: 2015
- On Photography byPublication Date: 2015
- Fifty Key Writers on Photography byPublication Date: 2013
- Making Photography Matter byPublication Date: 2015
- Photography: History and Theory byPublication Date: 2012
- Photography and Cinema byPublication Date: 2008
- The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography byPublication Date: 2007
- Seeing America byPublication Date: 1999
History
Books tracing the origins and progression of photography from its humble beginnings in daguerreotypes to the gradual mastering of photographic portraits, techniques, and negatives.
- Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography byPublication Date: 2017
- A history of women photographers byPublication Date: 2010
- A history of photography : the Musée d’Orsay collection, 1839-1925 byPublication Date: 2009
- World History of Photography byPublication Date: 2007
- Burning with desire : the conception of photography byPublication Date: 1997
- The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories byPublication Date: 1988
Criticism
Various titles with collections of essays, reviews, and lectures.
- Crisis of the real : writings on photography byPublication Date: 2010
- Camera Lucida : reflections on Photography byPublication Date: 2010
- Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and PoliticsPublication Date: 2003
- On photography byPublication Date: 1977
- Ways of Seeing byPublication Date: 1972
BFA Photography Departmental Representative
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Library Resources
- Prism CatalogSearch for books, ebooks, movies, articles, magazines, images and more in the SVA Library.
- A-Z DatabasesFind millions of articles and images using our e-resources.
- Research Tools & Information LiteracyA guide to doing research, evaluating sources, writing, citing, plagiarism, and copyright.
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New York New York
From iconic landmarks like the Flatiron Building and Times Square to the visual poetry of New York City's streets and skyline...
- Point of view : me, New York City, and the punk scene byPublication Date: 2018
- Peter Hujar : lost downtownPublication Date: 2016
- Store front : the disappearing face of New York byPublication Date: 2015
- The radical camera : New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951 byPublication Date: 2011
- Alfred Stieglitz New York byPublication Date: 2010
- Back in the days byPublication Date: 2001
- New York : 365 days from the photo archives of the New York timesPublication Date: 2006