InfoGuides: AVT 457: Documentary Photography: Find Articles

Recommended Databases for Photo Research

These databases include scholarship, criticism, reviews, and other writings to support research of photography and its social/cultural contexts.

Art and Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Find articles on a broad range of art and design topics, as well as images and art reproduction records. Includes articles published in French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch.
ARTbibliographies Modern This link opens in a new window
Find citations for modern and contemporary art publications, including digital art, design, photography, and craft topics.
*Index only: no full text articles. Use the "MasonLink" button to find the full article through other online or print sources.
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) This link opens in a new window
Find citations for design and commercial arts subjects, including graphic design, sustainability, and applied art or craft topics. Also contains references to exhibition reviews and art news.
*Index only: no full text articles. Use the "MasonLink" button to find the full article through other online or print sources.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences digitized in most cases back to the first date of issue. Includes selected books, primary sources and other materials for academic work.
Tutorial for the JSTOR database.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
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Provides English language abstracts of scholarly literature (journal articles, articles in collections, dissertations, book and media reviews) on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada with indexing for journals from 1910 in more than 40 languages.
Tutorial for the America: History and Life database.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Index of bibliographic materials combining Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Provides worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, folklore, material culture, and related interdisciplinary research from early 19th century to today.
Tutorial for the Anthropology Plus database.