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Photography

General photography resources, as well as information directly related to ART 4500.

Best Databases

The following are the best databases to find scholarly articles in photography. Depending on what interests you, you may consider other areas, such as  communication (photojournalism) or history to get a different perspective.

Finding articles from a bibliography

When you are in a bibliography, often there will not be links. In that case, you'll do the following:

You have an article and the following citation from their bibliography is one you want to look at:

William PressleyMccabe, Susan., "Delight in Dislocation....." Modernism/Modernity (2001). 429-452. 

To find this article you need to click on the Journal tab and look at our A-Z list of available journals. Your search would be for Modernism/Modernity.

Display showing name of journal and what years are available through Otterbein.

If we had this title in print, it would be shown in the results. These results show that we don't have print. However, we do have access to this title from 1994 to the present through two databases, OhioLINK EJC and Project Muse. Clicking on either link should get you to the journal page. From there, you would need to search for the article you want from 2001. If you needed an article that was from before 1994, you would need to request that article through Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

Offline Articles

The Courtright Library subscribes to several print journals and magazines that cover various aspects of art. Some of these journals involve photographers and can be helpful to browse and read when doing research. You can find these on the second floor off the library.