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Include as much information as is available. If an artist's name is not available (e.g., for works from classical periods), the citation starts with the title of the work.
Chicago Style (17th edition, Notes & Bibliography) basic format for bibliography:
Artist’s Last Name, First Name. Title of work. Date of creation or completion. Medium. Location of the work.
EXAMPLE:
Smith and Williams. Crowell House. 1955. Pasadena, California. Photograph by Julius Shulman. Accessed June 12, 2020. http://www.artstor.org.
Citing Online Multimedia
Examples:
A. E. Weed, At the Foot of the Flatiron (American Mutoscope and Biograph Co., 1903), 35 mm film, from Library of Congress, The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898–1906, MPEG video, 2:19, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html.
“HOROWITZ AT CARNEGIE HALL 2-Chopin Nocturne in Fm Op.55,” YouTube video, 5:53, from a performance televised by CBS on September 22, 1968, posted by “hubanj,” January 9, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDVBtuWkMS8.
Harwood, John. “The Pros and Cons of Biden.” New York Times video, 2:00. August 23, 2008. http://nyti.ms/1dkqswa
Pollan, Michael. “Michael Pollan Gives a Plant’s-Eye View.” Filmed March 2007. TED video, 17:31. Posted February 2008. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/michael_pollan
_gives_a_plant_s_eye_view.html.
