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Design Image classification

A. Architecture
C. Cartography
D. Decorative arts
G. Graphic design
H. Photographic arts
I. Industrial design
L. Landscape architecture
P. Painting & drawing
S. Sculpture
T. Textile & fiber arts
Z. Materials, concepts & sets

Auxiliary tables

Art & architecture thesaurus
Cutter table for names
LC authority file
Place or site
Regions/Periods
ULAN
Views

Design Library Images Collection (Pennell-Kuhn) classification

  Class H. Photography

Constructing the call number

First line
  Region/Culture
  Period (Gross)
  [Place of origin] (country only [present boundaries])
Second line
  [Photographer]
  Type of work
Third line
  Title of work
Fourth line
  [Date]
  [View]

Type of work

a Portrait individual, group
b Still-life traditional, staged
c Landscape
d Reportage documentary, historical
e Scientific
f Medical, Forensic
g Digital visualization
h Photo manipulation
j Photomontage, photocollage
k Media studies
m Post-photo

Examples

hBm-US
E25c
D35		 Eckersley, Thomas.
In the daisy field
b/w. 1974		 hBM-US
H34b
O54		 Hahn, Betty
1000 dusty negatives.
Plexography. 1974
gBh-US
-h
T84		 Anon.
Tulley Almanac for 1699
typography. 1698		 gQn-GG
D87f
A65		 Durer, Albrecht
Apocalypse series.
St. John devouring the
book. etching 1525