Browsing is a great way to discover something new. Here are the Library of Congress call numbers to assist browsing in your areas. Library of Congress call numbers are your road map to book locations in the library stacks. Explore!
Photography books are found primarily in the TR section of the library, in both the main stacks and oversized stacks. However, you will find books throughout the library that include photography, especially in the N section (fine arts). Books from all areas may help give your work a philosophical, theroetical, or conceptual grounding. TR books outside the TR 640-685 artistic photography range may also be helpful.
1-11 General works on photography (periodicals, directories, dictionaries)
15 General history of photography
140 Biographies of photographers
287-500 Photographic processing, darkroom techniques
504 Transparencies, diapositives
510-545 Color photography
550 Studio and laboratory
590 Lighting
624 Applied photography
(techniques for special fields)
640-685 Artistic photography including works about individual photographers
651 1800 to 1850
652 1851 to 1900
653 1900 to 1950
654 1950 to the present
679 Fashion photography
690 Commercial photography
692 Scientific, technical applications
708 Medical Photography
721-729 Nature Photography
845 Cinematography, motion pictures
925 Photomechanical reproduction