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History of Photography by Taylor & Francis
Call Number: UMBC Bafford Photography Serials
ISBN: 0308-7298
Publication Date: 1977-
Founded in 1977, History of Photography is an international quarterly journal devoted to the history, practice and theory of photography in all its definitions - artistic, scientific, commercial, and domestic; in archives, art galleries, and museums; on the page, on the wall, or on the screen. The journal is inclusive and interdisciplinary, welcoming all scholarly approaches, whether historical, art historical, anthropological, sociological, archival or theoretical. It embraces global photographic history, ranging across all geographical and cultural contexts around the world.
Photography & Culture by Taylor & Francis
Call Number: UMBC Library Serials Stacks
ISBN: 1751-4517
Publication Date: 2008-
Photography & Culture is a refereed journal that is international in its scope and interdisciplinary in its contributions. It aims to interrogate the contextual and historic breadth of photographic practice from a range of informed perspectives and to encourage new insights into the media through original and incisive writing.
Photographies by Routledge
Call Number: UMBC Bafford Photography Serials
ISBN: 1754-0763
Publication Date: 2008
photographies seeks to construct a new agenda for theorising photography as a heterogeneous medium that is changing in an ever more dynamic relation to all aspects of contemporary culture.
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.
Aperture
Call Number: UMBC Library Special Collections - Bafford (Photography books and serials)
ISBN: 0003-6420
Publication Date: 1952-
Quarterly journal featuring contemporary photography and writing about photography. Founded in 1952, Minor White served as the first editor.

The Classic
Free photography magazine dedicated to classic photography.

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Art Abstracts provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts for more than 450 international art publications, including periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. Indexing spans from 1984 to the present.
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Historical Abstracts indexes journals covering world history from 1450 to the present (for the United States and Canada use America: History & Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered.
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U&lc ceased print publication in the fall of 1999. Over its almost 27 years in hardcopy form, it inspired, informed and delighted readers. In the process, U&lc won over 100 awards for design and typographic excellence from the AIGA, Society of Publication Designers, Type Directors Club, and many other prestigious organizations. This website includes PDFs of U&Ic issues.

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Indexes and abstracts dissertations and theses primarily from the U.S and Canada, some international; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. Full text available for dissertations published since 1997 (1991 from UMBC) are available as PDFs. (Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI)
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DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).

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