Find Books and eBooks
The library has a variety of books related to photobooks, including texts about photobook history, reviews of photobooks by country, artist monographs, artists' books, and bookbinding and book making guides.
View a list of books suggested for this course (books listed that are in special collections have been set aside for students to review, to visit us and see the books, please make an appointment).
Search terms
Some useful search terms to find books and ebooks on photobooks are listed below. These can be searched alone, or in combination using Boolean Searching.
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Photobook Publishers
Browse the Library's collection for books by these well-known photobook publishers.
Some Key Books
Some key books
Create Your Own Photo Book: Design a Stunning Portfolio, Make a Bookstore-Quality Book by ISBN: 1457166615Publication Date: 2012
The Photobook: a History - Volume I - 3 by Call Number: N7433.3 .P37ISBN: 0714842850Publication Date: 2004
Freedom of the Presses by Call Number: N7433.3.F85 2018ISBN: 9780692166789Publication Date: 2019-01-22
Articles and Databases
Databases best for photobook research
The following databases are a good place to start finding peer-reviewed articles on photobooks, such as reviews, academic articles, and research. For advice on how to search, using boolean operators, and identifying scholarly resources, look at our Library Instruction guide.
- Art & Architecture Archive (AAA) This link opens in a new window
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Toronto Metropolitan has both the Architecture & Design and Art & Photography collection, which provides a full-text archive of magazine coverage from 1860-2015. - Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Art Full Text provides comprehensive abstracting and indexing for periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. - JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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JSTOR has created a full text digital archive of core scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles. As part of JSTOR’s agreement with publishers, current issues (usually the last 3 – 5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere. The Toronto Metropolitan University Library has access to the entire content of JSTOR’s archival journal collections. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Project Muse provides online access to the full text of over 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, mathematics and many others.
Toronto Metropolitan now has access to the following 2022 collections: African Studies, Gender Studies, History, Language and Linguistics, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Philosophy and Religion, Political Science and Policy Studies, Public Health and Health Policy, Russian and East European Studies - ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
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ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics.
Some peer-reviewed photobook articles
- Dietschy, Nathalie. "After Robert Frank's Photobook the Americans: Remakes, Variations, and Iconoclasm." Photographies 13, no. 3 (2020): 297-322.
- Egorova, M. A. and I. V. Safonov. "Photobook Generation Algorithms." Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis 21, no. 3 (2011): 477-480.
- GARLAND, SARAH. "Picturing Distance: Ed Ruscha's Los Angeles Photobooks." Journal of American Studies 54, no. 3 (2020): 470-491.
- Miles, Melissa. "The Drive to Archive: Conceptual Documentary Photobook Design." Photographies 3, no. 1 (2010): 49-68.
- Phillips, Jonathan B., Peter Bajorski, Peter D. Burns, Erin P. Fredericks, and Mitchell R. Rosen. "Comparing Image Quality of Print-on-Demand Books and Photobooks from Web-Based Vendors." Journal of Electronic Imaging 19, no. 1 (2010): 011013-011013.
- Stokoe, Brian. "The Photobook: From Talbot to Ruscha and Beyond." History of Photography 37, no. 4 (2013): 464-466.
- Wood, Mark D., Madirakshi Das, Peter O. Stubler, and Alexander C. Loui. "Event-Enabled Intelligent Asset Selection and Grouping for Photobook Creation." Image and Vision Computing 53, (2016): 57-67.