Artists' Books at the Fine Arts Library: Photobooks

Ever since William Henry Fox Talbot, photographers have presented their works in books. The Photobook is a beloved format for presenting a gallery of images--a story, a concept, a collection--in a container that can be published and disseminated to as wide or narrow an audience as the artist determines.

Here are some strategies for finding photobooks in the Cornell University Library collections:

In this example, helpful subject terms include:

Photography, Artistic
Photobooks

Other subject terms to try:
Artists' books
Photography literature.

Please be aware that photobooks may not be specifically called photobooks. They are part of the collections in several libraries at Cornell, so you may discover them in several different collections. The examples at the left are all from the Artists' Book Collection at the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library, but there are wonderful photobooks at other libraries, too, such as these: