InfoGuides: Photography: Find Articles & Photo Magazines

Recommended Databases for Photography

What's in these databases?

Databases and journals are excellent sources for finding in-depth information on your topic or artist, including citations to or full-text articles from scholarly journals, professional magazines, and newspapers. Start here if you're looking for exhibition reviews, interviews, photographic essays, or critical analysis.

Art and Architecture Source
Recommended! Find articles, interviews, and exhibition reviews from a broad range of art and design topics and time periods, as well as images and art reproduction records.
Art & Architecture Archive
Full-text archive of magazines comprising key research material in the fields of art and architecture, dating from the late-nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Subjects covered include fine art, decorative arts, architecture, interior design, industrial design, and photography. View a tutorial on this database here.
ARTbibliographies Modern
Find citations for modern and contemporary art publications, including photography, design, and digital media 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)
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
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.
View a tutorial on this database here.

Selected Photography Journals & Magazines

Aperture
Photographic essays of the most significant work and artists in photography.
NOTE: To see historic issues of Aperture (from before 2005), view the archives in JSTOR.
British Journal of Photography
The world's longest-running photography magazine. Includes reviews of new photo technology, interviews and reviews of photographers, and an investigation of the medium of photography.
Afterimage
News, reports, essays, and reviews that discuss and analyze independent photography, film, electronic imaging, alternative publishing and telecommunications. Available online & in print at Fenwick Library.

BlackFlash Magazine
Devoted to photography and new media in art.
Exposure
Provides and fosters an understanding of photography as a means of diverse creative expression, cultural insight, and experimental practice.
European Photography
Covers contemporary photography and new media.

Photographies
photographies aims to further develop the history and theory of photography, considering new frameworks for thinking and addressing questions arising from the present context of technological, economic, political and cultural change.
History of Photography
Peer reviewed journal; covers all aspects of photography, from photo processes and publication methods to the reception/reviews of photographic works. Topics include documentary, popular, vernacular, and fine art photography.

Color Research and Application
Reports on the science, technology, and application of color in business, art, design, education, and industry.
Popular Photography
Provides technical specs, buyers guides and how-to information for photo enthusiasts. Ceased publication in 2017; older articles available online and in print in Fenwick Library.

Moving Image
Explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar, dealing with the issues surrounding preservation, archiving and restoration of film, video and digital moving images.
American Cinematographer
Covers feature films, television, commercials, music videos, digital video, new equipment, DVD, book releases, and much more.