Check out the Course Reserves.

120 Thematic Essays on Modern/Contemporary Art
(Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.)

The Oxford Companion to the Photograph

Oxford Art Online

Photograph Resource Center at Boston University

Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture

Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture

Photography: a Cultural History. Oversize: TR15 .M273 2011

Classic Essays on Photography. Oversize: TR185 .C56

The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: Digital Imaging, Theory and Applications, History, and Science. ref. TR9 .F6 2007

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. ref. TR642 .E5 2006

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Path of Discovery in the Catalogs

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

 

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

 

Author	Mraz, John.
Title	Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity
Publisher	Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2009.
Subject	National characteristics, Mexican.
	Nationalism -- Mexico.
	Photography -- Social aspects -- Mexico.
	Mass media -- Social aspects -- Mexico.
	Arts and society -- Mexico.

C. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

1. Individual Photographers (two types of searches):

(subject browse) "Weston, Edward"

(keyword search) "Edward Weston"

More examples, Tina Modotti, Paul Strand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Nacho López, Hector García, Graciela Iturbide.

2. On Photography in Mexico and Related Topics

photography mexico

 

Photographers -- Mexico

 

photojournalism mexico

 

photojournalism

 

Documentary photography -- Mexico

 

Photography -- Social aspects -- Mexico

 

On photography and memory:

photograph* and artistic and memor*

Tip: photograph* searches for photograph, photography, etc.

 

 

3. Explore your topic in the larger contexts of:

Photography history

Photography, Artistic.

Art and photography

 

Art and revolutions -- Mexico

Art and revolutions -- Latin America

Art and revolutions

 

Art, Mexican (a country)

Art, Latin American -- 20th century. (the region)

4. Search for Exhibition Catalogues and Photographs

Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Photography

Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 -- Pictorical Works

Photography -- Mexico -- Exhibitions

These exhibition and museum catalogues are uniquely valuable sources, which may include:

*Fundamental data on each work of art;

*Official images of the artworks;

*Curatorial statements/essays;

*essays by art critics/historians;

*list of scholarly publications on the art;

*interviews with artists;

*and more.

Here is an example:

Tina Modotti & Edward Weston: the Mexico Years / Sarah M. Lowe.

Tina Modotti and Edward Weston arrived in Mexico in 1923 at the start of an extraordinary period of artistic creativity that became known as the Mexican Renaissance. The book traces the interwoven lives and work of Modotti and Weston from the early 1920's in Los Angeles, where they met, until the 1930's, focusing in detail on their time together in Mexico, where virtually all of Modotti's photographs were taken. In bringing together for the first time close to 150 photographs by Modotti and Weston, it reveals the distinctive responses to Mexico of two photographers from widely different backgrounds. At the same time, like other Modernists in Mexico, these two artists self-consciously created work that broke wholly with the immediate past, and fashioned an idiom in defiance of traditional ideas. A selection of images by two Mexican photographers, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky, reveals how indigenous photography was influenced by these two foreigners. [TR647 .M554 2004]

ARTstor

Artifact (Tufts University)

Image Quest (two million plus rights-cleared images)

The American Museum of Photography

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division

FSA photographs in the Library of Congress

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse
JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

3. Academic OneFile

(All subjects, including Photography; a convenient quick start.

 

4. Expand Your Search Across these subjects or separately:

ARTBibliographies Modern, International Bibliography of Art, Latin American Studies

 

5. HAPI (Scholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Both English and Spanish language materials.)  

Add Other perspectives/focuses:

America: History and Life

Film & Television Literature Index

Communication & Mass Media Complete

History (non-U.S.)

Women's Studies

** When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Find More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, for the article you have read.

For example:

Warburton, Nigel. "Individual Style in Photographic Art." British Journal of Aesthetics 36: 4 (1996), 389-397.
References: 13 Times Cited: 3

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 13 references that Warburton cited for his article and, in turn, 3 articles that cited his. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

C. Find "Literature Review"

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area. Here are some examples:

A review of books

 

Gallo, Ruben. "Mexican Photography: From the Daguerreotype to Digital Images." Hispanic Review 79: 1 (2011): 135-141.

A Review article

 

Nickel, Douglas R. "History of Photography: the State of Research" Art Bulletin (U.S.A.) 83.3 (2001): 548-58.

 

Recently Published Reviews (the College Art Association)

 

A Few Core Journals

 

Bulletin of Latin American Research

Hispanic American Historical Review

 

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

Art Journal

 

History of Photography

Afterimage

Bomb

Leonardo

October

Find an electronic-journal by title

Current:

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva (more international coverage)

 

Boston News (Boston Globe and Local Newspapers)

Historical

Boston Globe (1872-1979)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks