Guides: ART 376 Explorations in Digital Photography: Home

Getting Started

Locate artists' works on the Internet using a search engine such as Google; or visit a site that collects information about works from over 180,000 artists: Artnet.com

Artsy, a resource for collection and education, aims to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.

ARTnews (available on Flipster) reports on the art, personalities, issues, trends and events shaping the international art world.

Aperture (available on Flipster) covers the world of contemporary photography combining writing with inspiring photographic portfolios. Each issue examines one theme explored in two distinct sections: Words, focused on the best writing surrounding contemporary photography, and Pictures, featuring immersive portfolios and artist projects.

Books

Digital Photography for Dummies by Julie Adair King
ISBN: 9781119609643
Publication Date: 2020-02-05
This book introduces you to the camera settings and techniques that separate okay pictures from frame-worthy portraits. It then explains how to apply those skills to capturing your own portraits, landscape shots, and high-action photos.
Understanding Your Digital Camera by Tim Savage
ISBN: 9781847978035
Publication Date: 2014-09-30
This book has been written for photographers who want to switch their camera off automatic mode and take control of its image-making potential. With visual examples throughout, it explains how to use the camera's settings and functions to take better and more creative photographs.
Digital SLR Cameras and Photography for Dummies by David D. Busch
ISBN: 9781118971840
Publication Date: 2014-09-15
The perennial DSLR bestseller--now expanded with more photography tips, covering the latest technologies in the world of DSLR cameras and photography. Written in plain English and complemented with full-color photos, this guide covers the mechanics of the camera; exposure, lenses, and composition; how to capture action, portrait, and low-light shots; editing and sharing images; tips for improving your digital photography skills; and much more.
Digital SLR Photography All-In-One for Dummies by Robert Correll
ISBN: 9781119711704
Publication Date: 2020-11-24
Click your way to stunning digital images with this thorough resource!

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Online Software Tutorials

LinkedIn Learning
Professional development resource available to all current faculty, staff, and students, offering over 1,000 online courses.

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Exhibitions & Excursions

Culver City Galleries
Culver City has a strong concentration of great galleries including Suzanne Vielmetter, Honor Fraser, and Blum & Poe.
Bergamot Station
Bergamot Station is a unique and unparalleled collection of fine art galleries. Throughout the year Bergamot Station hosts vibrant community and cultural activities and facilitates educational, non-profit and charitable events.
Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings
For more than forty years, Sally Mann (American, born in 1951) has made experimental and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: family, desire, mortality, memory, and nature’s indifference to the human condition. Exhibition at The J. Paul Getty Museum,November 16, 2018–February 10, 2019
12 SUNSETS Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive
In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Using a motorized camera mounted on the back of a pickup truck, he methodically photographed all of the buildings on each side of the street. He assembled the photos in the artists' book Every Building on the Sunset Strip, which challenged how people thought about Los Angeles, art and photography.
West of Modernism: California Graphic Design 1975-1995
This exhibition is part of LACMA’s Graphic Design Initiative, an interdepartmental project spearheaded by the Decorative Arts and Design and the Prints and Drawings departments.
Pacific Standard Time LA/LA
A far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles. Led by the Getty, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is the latest collaborative effort from arts institutions across Southern California.
Photography in Argentina, 1850 - 2010: Contradiction and Continuity
Comprising three hundred works by sixty
artists, this exhibition examines crucial periods and aesthetic movements in which
photography had a critical role, producing—and, at times, dismantling—national
constructions, utopian visions, and avant-garde artistic trends.
In Focus Platinum Photographs
Admired for their velvety matte surface, wide tonal range, and neutral palette, platinum prints helped establish photography as a fine art. Introduced in 1873, the process was championed by prominent photographers until platinum’s use was restricted in World War I and manufacturers were forced to introduce alternatives. Originally scheduled for January 21–May 31, 2020, GETTY CENTER

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Finding Articles

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Full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more.
Biography in Context
Biographical information on more than 528,000 people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

ARTstor Images for Your Presentation/Paper

Matthew Brandt, American. 2007. Salton Sea C1. Photograph. Place: The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund. https://library.artstor.org/asset/ANGAIG_10314015382.

One place to find images for your presentation or paper is the database, ARTstor which is now available in JSTOR. Log on, create a personal account and create an image group. Then view information on how to Export to Power Point

You can search IMAGES by the name of an art work, by geography, by classification (for example, photography), or by collection (for example, Center for Creative Photography). Use the Advanced Search to limit by date.

Helpful videos on using ARTstor can be found on YouTube