Photography

Associations & organisations

Assignmentphoto
Network of corporate photographers

Association of International Photography Art Dealers

Provides information, publications , and up-coming events, specifically the annual Photography Show, an exposition devoted to fine art photography.

      Australian Centre for Photography  

Australian Commercial and Media Photographers

Australian Institute of Professional Photography

Australian Photography Association

Centre for Contemporary Photography

International Center of Photography   

photoforum NZ

Women in Photography International

World Press Photo

Young photographers United

Links & articles

Daguerreian Society

Info about early photography

A History of Photography (From it's beginning til the 1920s)

A photo a day

Intute web resources - Photography

Art Department Photography

Digital Photography Review

Imaging news, reviews of the latest digital cameras and accessories, discussion forums, buyers guide and database of digital camera features and specifications.

Buy-n-Shoot.com

Australian online photography news, digital camera reviews and photography classifieds service.

Film versus digital

Photography Guide

Massive Dev Chart
Film developer chart

Yahoo directory - Photographers' resources

Photography-Now

International Fine Art Photography Index

Photo.net: A Community of Photographers
resources, tutorials and forums

Understanding image sharpness

ShortCourses.com
The On-line Library of Digital Photography

      JISC Digital Media

Provides advise on the use of digital media to achieve solutions that are innovative, practical and cost effective.

Blogs

Digital photography blog

photoblogs.org

Related subject guides

Fine arts

Graphic design

Museums, galleries & exhibitions

American Museum of Photography

MoMA

Click the link then select Photography.

      National Gallery of Australia - Photography

Vivid - The Australian national Photography Festival

Directories and search engines

Adobe Photographers Directory

      Global photographers search

PhotoSearch (National Archives of Australia)

Picsearch

Image service with more than 3,000,000,000 pictures.

Online collections & pictorial terms

Australian Heritage Database

Australian Pictorial Thesaurus

Australian terminology to describe objects, people, places and structures, activities and concepts depicted in an image.

Flickr

Online photo management and sharing application

Photo Study Collection and Database

Getty Research Institute

PICMAN

Manuscripts, oral history & pictures catalogue of the State Library

Picture Australia
Provides access to public domain images.

Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

World’s public photography archives

Government information

Culture and Recreation Portal

Gateway to Australian cultural resources

Legal information, copyright and standards

Arts Law Centre of Australia

Australian Copyright Council    

Australian Government - Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Viscopy
Australasian visual arts copyright collecting agency

Photography and privacy (Australian Privacy Foundation)

Copyright information sheet G011 - Photographers and copyright [pdf, 280 KB]

NSW photo right directory

Art, Photography and Design - Copyright

Australian Standards Online

This subscription service gives TAFE NSW students access to over 6,500 full-text Australian standards. Search for relevant Australian standards by visiting Australian Standards Online. Full-text access only available in your NSI Library (For downloads USB drive required) - contact your librarian.

Standard Number e.g.

AS/NZS ISO 12029:2007 : Electronic imaging - Forms design optimization for electronic image management
AS/NZS 60432.3:2007 : Incandescent lamps - Safety specifications - Tungsten-halogen lamps (non-vehicle)

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   eJournals & eBooks

eBooks

Free eBooks

• Art in photography (1905)
• Four free online books by PhotoSecrets (1995-2009)
• Kearton's nature pictures beautifully reproduced in photogravure, colour, and black and white from photographs (1910)
• Photography and fine art (1918)
• Sunlight and shadow : a book for photographers, amateur and professional (1897)

NetLibrary

Click the link of any of the examples and then click on "URL". Log in using your DET username and password.

NetLibrary

• Absolute beginner's guide to digital photography
• Digital art history
• Digital photographic capture
• Shoot it like a pro!

eReference

Free eReference

• Digital photography glossary
• Aerial photography glossary

Oxford Art Online

Access temporarily suspended until late January 2010.

• Photography: History and influence
• Fiona Hall (Australian photographer)

Oxford Reference Online

Log in to Oxford Reference Online using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Subjects & Books and go to e.g. Art & Architecture .

• Oxford companion to the photograph

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered, including photography.

Business Source Premier (BSP) is one of the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals. Full text coverage is provided in all disciplines of business, including art and photography marketing and management.

Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription are the 'General Reference Centre Gold' and 'Fine Arts and Music Collection'. Search these databases on keywords related to photography.

The Facts on File is a set of online reference databases. The Modern world history online and 'Ancient and Medieval history online data bases contain articles, illustrations and videos relating to history of photography.

This multi-disciplinary database provides more than 1,750 general reference publications with full text information. Covers virtually every subject area of general interest. It also includes nearly 500 full text reference books. Search this database on keywords such as aesthetics, visual art, photographers etc.

NetLibrary provides full-text access to a wide range of online books, including photography. Currently more than 800 eBooks are available in this collection as well as 3400 publicly-accessible eBooks of Project Gutenberg.

Is an innovative new gateway into art research and access point for Oxford art reference subscriptions and publications. It is the new home of Grove Art Online which provides access to 23,000 subject entries, 21,000 biographies, 500,000 bibliographic citations, 40,000 image links and 5,000 images.

A searchable collection of 175+ key Oxford reference publications covering 25 subject areas. Includes bilingual dictionaries, encyclopaedias, subject reference, quotations, maps & illustrations and 42 x 20th century timelines and fine arts reference titles such as the Concise Oxford dictionary of art and artists.