Photography

Online Services

• Oxford Art & Grove Art - includes access to over 45,000 articles on all aspects of the visual arts including photography. Worldwide coverage from prehistory to the present day.  Includes over 21,000 biographies and over 2,500 art images and line drawings, and over 40,000 image links from high quality museum & other art sites. Search specifically for images, or seach specifically for Photography, Film & Video.

• Oxford Reference Online - includes:
  • Oxford Companion to the Photograph
  • Oxford Dictionary of Art
  • Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art & Artists

• CREDOreference - includes
  • Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art & Artists
  • Thames & Dudson Dictionary of Art Terms
  • Thames & Hudson Dictionary of British Art

• KnowUK - includes
  • Hutchinson Dictionary of Symbols in Art
  • Writers & Artists Yearbook
  • Willings Press Guide

• NewsUK - Search through a variety of national and local newspapers.  Also has useful news topics on a variety of issues including Press and Media.

• Who's Who and Who Was Who - Who's Who includes information on over 33,000 influential people in British public life, and Who Was Who is an historical archive of over 90,000 deceased people who were previously included in Who's Who.

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - look through over 50,000 biographies of men and women who shaped Britains past, as well as various themes.

• Help Yourself - search for local Photographic and Film Societies and Groups in Sheffield.

Material we keep in the Central Library:

• Collection of material on the work of famous photographers
• Selection of photography yearbooks 1930’s – 1990
• Books on old cameras

•  Amateur Photographer -  5 year file
•  British Journal of Photography -5 year file

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