Citing a photograph - MLA

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Photograph: An image produced by a camera

Structure: Last, First M. Photograph name. Year created. Photograph.

Museum/ collection, City located.

Photograph

Plaque The plaque located next to the photograph will have information

Photograph name Photographer

Juvisy, France
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004)
1938. Gelatin silver print, printed 1947.
Gift of the photographer.

Year created

Museum/collection: Museum of Modern Art (where the photo is located)

City: New York City (city where photo is located)

Citation: Cartier-Bresson, Henri. Juvisy, France. 1938. Photograph. The Museum

of Modern Art, New York City.

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 Citing a photograph posted on a website - MLA
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Structure: Last, First M. Photograph name. Year created. Museum/collection,

City located. Website name. Web. Date accessed.
*Note: URL is optional. Consult your teacher

Website: MoMa (found on website header)

Photograph
information

Website footer Museum &

Location

Note: When citing sources reproduced online from their original versions, it is not necessary to
include online information such as the website publisher or the date of electronic publication

Date accessed: Depends on the day you accessed the photograph

Citation: Cartier-Bresson, Henri. Juvisy, France. 1938. The Museum of Modern

Art, New York City. MoMa. Web. 24 June 2010.

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 Citing a photograph from a book- MLA
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Structure: Last, First M. Photograph name. Year created. Museum/collection,

City located. Title of source. City published: Publisher, Year
published. Page(s). Print.

Front Cover
Book title: New York City: A Photographic Portrait

Peter Bennett Author / Photographer

Page 2 The subsequent pages after the cover will have publication information

Year published: 2007

Copyright © 2007
Twin Lights Publishers, Inc.

Publisher: Twin Lights Publishers

Omit descriptive words from citation

City published: Rockport

Page of Photograph
Photograph name:
Antique Shop, East Village

Location & City: There is no original

photograph housed in a location like a museum.
Therefore, this information is not needed

Page: 8 Found on corner of page

Citation: Bennett, Peter. Antique Shop, East Village. New York City: A
Photographic Portrait. Massachusetts: Twin Lights, 2004. 8.
Print.

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 Citing a photograph from a database - MLA
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Structure: Last, First M. Photograph name. Year created. Museum/collection,

City located. Database. Web. Date accessed.
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Database: ARTSTOR

Photographer:
Leonard Freed

Date created:1965 Photograph name: Holidaymakers stuck in traffic jam

Collection/Museum & City: NA

Date accessed: Depends on the day you accessed the photograph

Citation: Freed, Leonard. Holidaymaker Stuck in Traffic Jam. 1965. ARTSTOR.

Web. 1 July 2010.

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 Citing a digital image - MLA
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Digital image: A two-dimensional picture which can be viewed electronically
via a computer

Structure: Last, First M. Official title of image. Description of image (include

when title is not available). Digital image. Website title. Website
Publisher, Date electronically published. Web. Date accessed.
*Note: URL is optional. Consult your teacher

Image search: Do not cite the search engine where the image is found, but the website of
the image the search engine indexes

Website of image Photographer: NA

Website name : howstuffworks

Date of electronic publication: NA

Description: Guggenheim
Museum in Spain
Information found from image caption. There
is no official title for the image

Website footer
Website publisher

Citation: Guggenheim Museum in Spain. Digital image. howstuffworks.

HowStuffWorks. Web. 22 July 2010.

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