Photography after conceptual art

There is a great new book due to be published by Wiley this month called Photography after conceptual art.  It is edited by Diarmuid Costello and Margaret Iversen and amongst the artists covered are Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Douglas Huebler, Mel Bochner, Sherrie Levine, Roni Horn, Thomas Demand, and Jeff Wall.   It sounds like a who's who of key photographers, right?

Well, why wait for the book.  All the essays included were previously published in a special issue of the journal Art History, which is available online (volume 32, issue 5).

The journal Art History is indexed by Art Full Text and Art Bibliographies Modern (the key visual arts databases), as well as the British Humanities Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.  Five issues a year are published.

International photography magazines

The latest edition of European Photography contains a survey of international photography magazines.  The selection of 43 titles ranges from print media to freely available magazines online.  The freely available publications are listed below.  Of these, the only one I  currently regularly look at is Lens Culture - distinguished by its inclusion of video interviews with photographers.

1000 Words
Ahorn Magazine
American Suburb X
Dide
Flak Photo
Fototapeta
F-Stop Magazine
Lens Culture
Lunatic
Ninja Magazine
Purpose
SuperMassiveBLackHoLe

Foam is an obvious omission from the list and while the online version does not live up to the splendidly produced print version, it is a useful alternative (I'm sorry we don't subscribe to the print).  Like Foam, Foto Kvartāls also publishes a free version online using the issuu platform and is similarly ommitted from the European Photography list.  Admittedly it is published in Latvian,  but it does claim to have an international remit. 

The Canadian Prefix Photo is also not listed (not online) and neither is the Edinburgh-based Portfolio (not online, but available in the library).

There must be others...  Etudes Photographiques, Fotografia, Photography Quarterly.  If you would like to recommend one, leave a comment or even better leave a review (I think reviews of non-English language titles would be particularly interesting).

For convenience, I'll also list the titles that you do have to pay for - are these necessarily the better ones?  I have highlighted the ones we take in the library [the links take you to the magazine homepage, not the full-text of the publication].

8 Magazine
Ag
Aperture
Blind Spot
Camera Austria
Chinese Photography
Daylight Magazine
Der Greif
dienacht
Eikon
European Photography* [available online via Library Search]
Exit
Eyemazing
F
Fantom
Fotograf
Fotografija
GUP magazine
HotShoe
IANN
Imago
Katalog
Klack
Kwartalnik Fotografia
Next Level
Ohio Photomagazin
OjodePez
Photonews
Photoworks
Private
Source


References

International Photography Magazines. European Photography v. 31 no. 87 (Summer 2010) p. 74-5.

Further reading
 
Groll, M. Bloghopping. European Photography v. 29 no. 84 (Winter 2008/2009) p. 70-2

Trenkler, K. International Photography Festivals. European Photography v. 29 no. 84 (Winter 2008/2009) p. 76-7

WestminsterResearch

One way of monitoring the research output of the university is to look regulary at WestminsterResearch. This is the university's institutional repository - where academics are encouraged to log their publications etc. It is managed by ISLS.

As well as browsing all content, you can also browse by author or just view School of Media, Art & Design research (you can also create an RSS feed from this page).

The content of WestminsterResearch is now included within Library Collections Search (soon to be renamed Library Search!); and is also included in the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and the Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR).  The repository is also indexed by Google scholar. 

The presence of research citations on these sites should increase the visibility of the university's research output.

Art Full Text - online introduction

One of the databases searched within Library Search 'Articles & more' is Art Full Text.  You don't have to access the 'native' interface, but there are a few features that you might find useful, so I have embedded an online presentation on Art Full Text below. 

It is not the most exciting presentation in the world, but it does provide a useful summary of some of the features:

Coverage; Subject headings; Images of art works; Search fields; Biographical data; Advanced search menu; Email and RSS alerts; Saving articles; Saving searches; Translation of articles; Conversion to audio / saving audio files; Automated referencing



To access the native interface, go to Library Search and search for 'art full text' within the 'Books, journals & more' tab.  You can also try this with 'art bibliographies modern.'

NB: if you are asked for a username and password, ignore and look for 'Shibboleth access via UK federation'

If you have any questions about Art Full Text, please contact me.

New ebooks for digital imaging

The following ebooks have recently been added to the collection:

Davies, A. (2005). The Focal digital imaging A-Z, 2nd ed. Focal Press.

Easton, R. L. Jr. (2010). Fourier methods in imaging. John Wiley & Sons.

Galer, M. and Horvat, L. (2005). Digital imaging, 3rd ed. Focal Press.

Jacobson, R. E. et al (2000). The manual of photography: photographic and digital imaging, 9th ed. Focal Press.

Russ, J. C. (2008). The image processing handbook, 5th ed. CRC Press.


Other ebooks in the collection that are relevant to digital imaging include the following:

Bovik, A., ed. (2009). The essential guide to image processing, 2nd ed. Academic Press.

Keelan, B. W. (2002). Handbook of image quality: characterization and prediction. Marcel Dekker.

Rees, M. R., ed. (2007). Focal encyclopedia of photography: digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science, 4th ed. Focal Press.

Nixon, M. S. and Aguado, A. S. (2008). Feature extraction and image processing, 2nd ed. Academic Press.