OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Photography and Culture is 0. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
When Photographs Fail, When Monuments Fall: Photography and Reparations in Canada	11
What We See When Invited To Look Differently: Critical Reflections On Socially Engaged Photography	7
Palaeoliths and Pareidolia: Photography and Archaeological Stone Collecting From the Discovery of Deep Time to the Eolith Controversies	3
From the Editors	2
From the Editors	2
‘How Will We Be Remembered?’: Irene Shwachman’s West End Photographs	1
‘Viewing the Landscape’: Views from Expatria, Landscape Traditions and Staying Outside	1
The Beach, the Sea, the Fence: Spain’s Necro-Frontier and Humanitarian Photography	1
Tethered Lamb in the Flow: The Tension Between Historical Contemplation and Present Aliveness in the Odes of Taca Sui	1
From Pixel to Grain: Pressure and Touch in Rafael Soldi’s CARGAMONTÓN	1
John Møller’s ‘Photographic Memory’ – Professional Photography of Greenlandic Inuit and Danish Administrators at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	1
Pandemic Photography: Images from COVID-19 in India	1
‘Unseeing’ Photography: Academic Freedom and Human Rights after Tiananmen	1
#Ingrid	0
Migratory Technology: Piracy and Bazaar Culture in India and Nepal	0
Photography and Environmental Activism: Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution	0
Rediscovering the Work of Sham Sundar Das: A Look at the Photographer’s Unrecognized Legacy	0
AI and Photography: An Interview with Brooke Belisle	0
Colosseum, Rome and the Photographic Liberation of Jane Martha St. John	0
Claiming Truth, Picturing Doubt, or: When Knowledge and Ignorance Meet in an ‘Empty’ Picture	0
Infertile Grounds – The Photograph as a Site of Memory	0
Staircase Modernism– Moholy-Nagy’s English Photobooks	0
Wartime Manchukuo’s Photography Registration System: Mutō Tomio’s Bureaucratic Approach to Photography	0
Photography and 21st-Century Migration	0
Mother, Photography, Reproduction: A Note on Extreme Private Eros : Love Song 1974	0

The Legal History of an Alinari Postcard: Photomechanical Reproduction and the Illustrated Postcard Industry at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	0
The Work of Art in the Age of Computational Creativity	0
Reproducing a Nation: The Photomechanical Construction of Norway 1884–1905	0
Finding You Is My Courage: New Stories of Homecoming in Chinese Photography Since the 2000s	0
The Francis Effect and the Significance of Gestures and Images	0
From the Editors	0
Get in: Rhetoric and Realities of Diversity in the Global University	0
Exhibiting Migration Stories: An Exploration of Poetics in Moysés Zuñiga’s Photography	0
“We Live in a Wagon Never Going Anywhere:” The Representations of Housing Conditions and Tuberculosis in Zagreb between the Two World Wars	0
Countless Ways of Knowing: Looking at Images beyond the Frame as a Practice of Liberatory Pedagogy	0
For Those Who Played: Representing Indigenous Music in The Complete Works of Zhuang Xueben	0
Transhistoricizing the Drone: A Comparative Visual Social Semiotic Analysis of Pigeon and Domestic Drone Photography	0
Evelyn Hofer and the “Moment of Danger”	0
Punctuated Land: An Exploration of Conflict Through Photographic Practice	0
Photographs in Chinese Film Publications in the 1930s: Archives from the Republic of China Periodicals Full-Text Database (1911–1949)	0
Amateurism: An Alternative Narrative of Photography in China, Part I	0
Theorizing New Photographies in Contemporary China: An Introduction	0
Photography and Remote Warfare: An Inquiry into the Visual Representation of Cyber in News Images	0
A Photographic Archive in the Network of Migration: A Case Study of the Archive of the Northern and Western Territories at the Institute for Western Affairs in Poznań, Poland	0
Looking into Themselves. Women Documenting Wars and Their Aftermath	0
Reassembling Commercial Photographic History: The Mulhearn-Hoedt Archive	0
Quarries of Wandering Form: Entanglements and Encounters in Art, History, Geopolitics and the Spatial Relations of the Occupied Palestinian Territories	0
Fashion Photographers in the AIGC Era: Changes in the Jurisdiction and Creativity from the Perspective of the Sociology of Professions	0
Beauty to the Modernist Eyes: Katsura Imperial Villa as an Experience of Modernism and Modernity	0
Shadows of Reality: A Catalogue of W.G. Sebald’s Photographic Materials	0
Lúa Ribeira, Subida al cielo (Ascent into Heaven), 17.03.2023 Until 02.07.2023, Kutxa Kultur Artegunea Donostia—San Sebastian, Spain	0
Portrait Photography from China’s Xinjiang: Capturing Geopolitics and Ethnic Identities on the Frontier	0
The North Pole	0
Between Topographical Groundwork and Neocolonial Aspirations: The ‘Best Practice’ of Survey Photography in the Chilean-Argentine Boundary Case of 1902	0
Addressing Uncomfortable Emotions through the Photo-Exhibition Leaving and Waving by Deanna Dikeman	0
Messenger, Archive and Memory: Photography as Hermes	0
Chircales , the City, and the Peasant’s Dreams of Buenvivir	0
Being Present: Michael Tsegaye in Addis Ababa	0
Discussing Shared Heritage: Politics of Photomechanically Illustrated Publications on Synagogues in Poland (1895–1957)	0
In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family PhotosIn Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos By Oksana Sarkisova and Olga Shevchenko, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2023, 4	0
The Bruckmann Image Archive at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich, Germany	0
A Different Lens: Pegg Clarke, E. G. Shaw and the History of Australian Women’s Photography	0
Infrastructure Photography and the AI Data Center Building Boom	0
Negative/Positive: A History of Photography	0
Us in Relation to the Universe—Collaborative North-South Photographic Practice Research	0
Revealing a Colorized Past from a Family Portrait	0
Loss and Found: Barthes, Hidden Biography and Ethical Deficit in Alexander Gardner’s ‘Portrait of Lewis Payne’	0
From the Editors	0
From the Editors	0
Making Meaning across the Frame: The McKenzie Heritage Picture Archive at Black Cultural Archives	0
Nino Jorjadze: First Georgian Woman Photographer – Reporter of the First World War (1884–1968)	0
Days of Isolation: Queering a Pandemic - Playing Myself/Selves	0
Feeding AI, Fed by AI: Cognitive Labor and Reversed Organology	0
Aesthetics and Perception: Pastness in Charles Frederick Moore’s Xiyang Lou Imagery	0
From the Editors	0

Constructing Knowledge Between East and West: The Photographic Books of Ogawa Kazumasa	0
Coming and Going Coming and Going By Jim Goldberg, MACK, London. 75£, ISBN: 978-1-912339-77-8	0
Searching for the Homeland with Stories and Sands: ‘My Tarim’ and ‘Sand, Sand, and Sand’	0
Postcards and Japonisme: Visual Representations and Cultural Circulation in Edwardian Britain	0
Seen, of Light and Legacy : Abstraction, Archive, and Representation	0
Reframing the Invention of Photography	0
Revisiting a de-Humanized Shanghai: Speculative Realism in Zhou Ming’s Contemporary Object-Oriented Materialist Documentary Photography	0
“¡No Nos Desapareceremos!”: Artists Call’s Visual Solidarity with Central America	0
Untitled #310	0
Nadar’s Aerial Photography: Science, Ecstasy, Projection	0
Secondhand Tang Poems : Gazing at Passing Traditions	0
Family, Diaspora, and the Politics of Care in Griselda San Martin’s The Wall , 2015-16	0
Anna Fox, Jenny Matthews and Susan Meiselas in Conversation	0
The Narrative across Photographs: The Silk Roads Photography Gallery	0
Extension of Meanings: Text and Image in Contemporary Chinese Photographic Works	0
From the Editors	0
Shadows Amidst: Cultural Identity in the Spectrum of Visibility and Invisibility	0
Landmarks	0
Border Matters and Metaphors	0
Computational Photography: The Production of Perpetual Targets	0
From Military Facility to Cultural Heritage: The Goseong GP in Park Jongwoo’s DMZ Photography After the Korean War	0
Snapshots of Empire Games Journeys: The Vernacular Photography of Peter Heatly and the 1950 Scotland Team	0
Abundance and Absence in AI: A Review of ‘Missing Mirror: Photography through the lens of AI’	0
“And This Was the Exhibition”: Launderettes, Buses and Canteens as Gallery Spaces in 1970s Britain	0
Missing Home. A Photograph of my Mother with Her Box Ready to Return to Her Home	0
(De)Colonial Positioning	0
“Multiethnic Pioneers”: Representation of Korean Agrarian Villages inManshū gurafuand the Vision of a Multiethnic State	0
Photographic Education in Uganda	0
Inuit, the Crown, and Racialized Visuality: Photographs from the 1956 Canadian Governor General’s Arctic Tour	0
Imagining the Divine	0
Documents from the Edges of Conflict	0
Lola Álvarez Bravo: Subverting Surrealist Photography in Mexico	0
Indigenous Cultures and Post-Mortem Photography	0
Possible Traces of Whiteness	0
Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit: Ukrainian Photographer’s Recovered Archive	0
The Hybrid Dialectics Interview between Warren S. Neidich and Erik Morse	0
A Portfolio from the Series Drift Alignment	0