Producción científica sobre Fotografía en las revistas de Documentación (2000-2019)

Abstract

Scientific studies on Photography are generally published in publications about Communications, Art and History. However, Journals in Documentation Science could be also, hypothetically, a source of information about subject, especially in regard to processing and analysis (conservation, cataloguing, digitalization and circulation). Libraries, archives, museums, foundations, institutes and companies possess important photographic collections that can be reused for a variety of purposes and applications. The aim of this article is to analyze the scientific production on Photography in the main Documentation Journals over the past twenty years (2000-2019), in order to obtain information on authorship, contents and specific subject matters. This research has allowed us to discover that very few studies have been conducted on this subject: 146 articles from 161 authors, belonging to 61 public and private institutions, which analyze contents focusing on sixteen general subjects. The most relevant conclusions are the need for a broader investigation on Photography from the documentary point of view, and for the publishers to pay greater attention to the descriptors or key words in the articles, in order to facilitating and improving the location of the information.