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This Guide is intended to help you find library materials on photographers. If you need further assistance please ask a reference librarian.
Find a book
Use Maxwell Library's Online Catalog to search for a book by, or about, a person. If you search by author or subject enter the person's last name first (e.g. Mapplethorpe, Robert). You can also search by Keyword (All fields). Word order does not matter in this case. Also try searching "Photographers - Biography" as a subject to find books that have a collection of biographies.
Additional Information
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Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery ServiceRequest books and other materials from other libraries.
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Massachusetts Commonwealth CatalogSearch for and request books in other Massachusetts libraries. Login with your Connect card number.
Online Databases
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Art Full TextA bibliographic database, with abstracts, citing articles from over 375 art periodicals. The full text is included for a select number of journals. One user maximum at a time.
Dates of coverage: 9/84- for indexing; 1/94 for abstracts; 1997- for full text -
Biography in ContextMore than 650,000 biographical articles of international figures from every time period and area of study. Content is searchable across more than 170 titles, videos, audio selections, images, and articles.
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Biography Reference CenterBiography Reference Center includes more than 461,000 full-text biographies with complete runs of Biography Today and Biography, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
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ARTstorA database of digital images. Set up a free account by clicking on the link in the top left corner.
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Films on DemandIncludes approximately 26,000 video titles and more than 250,000 video segments covering a broad range of subject areas including humanities, social sciences, business, economics, science, mathematics, health, and medicine.
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Journals/Newspapers A-ZUse this database to search for journals by title.
Reference Books
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Contemporary photographers byCall Number: TR139 .C66 1995One copy of this book is located in the Reference Department on the first floor. Another copy is in the General Oversize (Circulating) Collection on the the third floor.
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Macmillan biographical encyclopedia of photographic artists & innovators byCall Number: TR139 .B767Publication Date: 1983Located in the Reference Department - first floor
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