Visual Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Visual Studies is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)17
Images among images: a map scholar response14
Photography and reality. Reflections around the role of the photographer among photo students in Russia and Sweden11
Ephemeral literacies: reflecting on the impermanence of maize reading divination11
On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box9
The faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the archive7
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks6
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin6
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color5
Reweaving memory: Taiwan’s last coal miners5
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong5
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey5
Editorial5
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India5
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City5
Editorial4
Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures4
Capital modernisation: a photographic analysis of Lisbon’s urban transformation from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War I4
Editorial4
Dressing and undressing Duchamp4
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world4
Prosody: an ode to the city4
Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens?4
The shape of Utopia: the architecture of radical reform in nineteenth-century America4
Visualising enclosure: the architecture of separation in campus life4
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics a4
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 20194
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal3
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK3
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies3
Copyright as an ethical dimension of visual research: preserving ownership across the research process3
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)3
A critical assessment of the Russian-language literature in the field of visual culture3
Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia3
Being specific about ‘digital images’3
Interpreting visual meaning: analysing photo-elicitation interviews through the levels of visual framing3
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec3
Designing Chineseness: an interview with Mingxuan Shen on the New Wonton typeface3
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis3
Turning to the imaginary: Stuart Hall’s interventions in visual arts and cultural studies3
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation3
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology3
Editors’ introduction3
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia3
Dandelions in the mirror: identity construction and family dynamics in a case study of Chinese lesbians2
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites2
Graphic journeys: virtual dark tourism in Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza2
Wake up, this is Joburg2
Editorial2
Visualizing entrenched historical trauma and inherited fear: a linguistic and semiotic landscape account of Jakarta’s traditional Chinatown Glodok2
Making a scene!: How visionary individuals created an international photography scene in Houston, Texas2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media2
Visual stratification and algorithmic hegemony in digital visual culture of China2
Kejawen tradition and sacred water practices in Central Java, Indonesia2
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities: Mountain View ’s (2021) advertisement as a case study2
The social life of private thoughts2
Looking at Laurie; reconsidering an image of ‘madness’2
Graphic interventions on child sexual abuse: the case of Indian narratives2
Editorial2
Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach2
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain2
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny1
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes1
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco1
Syrian refugees’ vision for quality education in a Lebanese public school: a participatory visual research1
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine1
Methodology for a comparative quantitative analysis of film colour: a comparison between Cannes and box-office results1
Decoding visual culture1
Editorial1
Decoding the symbolic storm fuelling Greek far-right politics: a visual essay1
Visual ethnography of the Dandari Gusadi festival of the Raj Gonds of Telangana, India: focusing on the social and ceremonial cultural expressions1
The eye of capital. Jonathan Crary and the history of attention1
The coloniality beneath the aesthetics: a study on the reclining female schema in modern Chinese photography1
Everything to Play For: How videogames are changing the world1
Imagining the city1
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries1
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G201
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal1
Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies1
Finding the local (meta)picture1
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution1
Juxtaposition and visualising the middle ground in the unequal city1
#EverydayNile Correspondences1
Visualising state-led gentrification in Tāmaki, Auckland1
What is an image in the digital age?1
Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Altamira1
The image is a cure1
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information1
Macao and Hengqin on China’s southern coast: aesthetic reading of infrastructural materiality and island integration1
Lettuce grow in the city1
Sociomateriality and infrastructure in action: the politics of border design through ethnographic photography1
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies1
From pages to posts: the evolution of memory-making from scrapbooking to Instagram1
Co-producing place narratives: participatory visual storytelling through the lens of youth1
Whom to Follow: The Staged Satire of Chinese Education in Wang Qingsong’s Photography1
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China1
Editorial1
A theory of assembly: From museums to memes1
Dirty pictures1
Visions and divisions of the world: the case of the Pallaqueras in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mines in Southern Perù1
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok1
Sounding of the idols. Visual deception and religious images in Brazil1
Emoji and social media paralanguage1
Gazing through the window: A participatory Covid-19-exhibition for a nation in crisis1
Embodying parkour’s visual subculture: ethos, style and the emergence of a visual habitus1
Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create1
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China1
Topologies of air1
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel1
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