Photography

Database: eBook Community College Collection
The Critical Eye provides a comprehensive approach to the critical understanding of photography through an in-depth discussion of fifteen photographs and their contexts--historical, generic, biographical, and aesthetic.

Database: eBook Community College Collection
A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. We are all photographers now, with camera phones in hand and social media accounts at the ready. And we know which pictures we like. But what makes a "good picture"? And how could anyone think those old styles were actually good? Whether for selfies or sepia tones, the rules for good pictures are always shifting, reflecting new ways of thinking about ourselves and our place in the visual world.

Database: ProQuest Ebook Central
In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography's vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century.