The Research Center Library contains approximately 8,000 volumes on the art, history, theory and technology of photography, film, the book arts, and related media. The library also features books in contextualizing disciplines of art history, cultural studies, history and science. This collection includes rare monographs and art historical titles. View a searchable list of our titles here.

Our periodicals collection is an extensive resource of publications on photography, the arts, culture and counterculture, and media. Periodicals are available for in-house research. A list of titles can be viewed here.

These collections are supported by additional holdings from the areas of photography, film and video, artist bookworks, and other creative and documentary media.

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In person browsing and research of these collections is currently available.

To begin an assisted search of the collections, please fill out the Collections Inquiry Form.

For further collection-related inquiries, contact Mary Lewandowski, Collections Manager at marylewandowski@vsw.org