About this journal

Aims and scope

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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.

The journal aims to provide a significant resource to diverse communities, including academics, curators, photographers, collectors, independent scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students - indeed, anyone with an interest in the history and practice of photography. The journal encourages submissions from emerging scholars, while also seeking to publish work by established writers. We are proud of our reputation for rigorous and constructive reviewing. Over the past decades History of Photography has become an indispensable source of documentary texts, new and original scholarly articles, novel interpretations, and original thinking in this field.

History of Photography is a peer reviewed journal overseen by the Editor and supported by a board of scholars in international standing.

Readership:

Photographers, curators, collectors, art historians, social historians, historians of science, sociologists, anthropologists and librarians.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 64K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 0.3 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 0.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.000 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.101 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 196 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 10% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Patrizia Di Bello

Department of History of Art

School of Arts

Birkbeck, University of London

43 Gordon Square,

London WC1H 0PD

[email protected]

Assistant Editor

Laurie Taylor

Arts Institute at Bournemouth

Former Editors

Heinz K. Henisch (1977–1990)
Mike Weaver & Anne Hammond (1991–2000)
Graham Smith (2001-2013)
Luke Gartlan (2013-2018)

Reviews Editor

Sean Willcock

Lecturer in History of Art

Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford,

Ewert House

Oxford, OX2 7SG

Email: [email protected]

Contributing Editors

Natalie Adamson, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

Jan Baetens, University of Leuven, Belgium

Geoffrey Batchen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Jordan Bear, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Matthew Biro, University of Michigan, USA

Laurie Dahlberg, Bard College, New York, USA

Elizabeth Edwards, Professor Emerita, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

Ahmet Ersoy, Bogaziçi University, Turkey

Luke Gartlan, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

Louis Kaplan, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Robin Kelsey, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA

Nina Lager Vestberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Martha Langford, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia

Melissa Miles, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Jeremy Taylor, University of Nottingham, UK

Ian Walker, writer and photographer, London, UK

Matthew S. Witkovsky, Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Roberta Wue, University of California, Irvine, USA

Andrés Mario Zervigon, Rutgers University, USA

Abstracting and indexing

History of Photography is currently abstracted and indexed in:

America: History and Life; Art Index; ARTbibliographies Current Titles; ARTbibliographies Modern; Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals; BHA Bibliography of the History of Art; British Humanities Index; Communication and Mass Media Complete; Current Abstracts; Historical Abstracts; Humanities International Index; OCLC; Periodicals Index Online; SCOPUS; Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

Open access

History of Photography is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

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News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

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Society information

Members of the Association of Art Historians can receive an individual print subscription to History of Photography at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details. Contact +44 (0)20 8052 0501 or [email protected] to subscribe.


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