Visual Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Visual Studies 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)18
Images among images: a map scholar response15
Ephemeral literacies: reflecting on the impermanence of maize reading divination12
Photography and reality. Reflections around the role of the photographer among photo students in Russia and Sweden11
On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box10
The faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the archive7
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color6
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks6
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey6
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin6
Editorial5
Editorial5
Reweaving memory: Taiwan’s last coal miners5
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India5
Typophoto: New typography and the reinvention of photography5
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong5
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City5
Drawing (in) the margins: decolonising human rights and political frames in Indian comics on indigeneity4
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 20194
Editorial4
Prosody: an ode to the city4
Dressing and undressing Duchamp4
Capital modernisation: a photographic analysis of Lisbon’s urban transformation from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War I4
The shape of Utopia: the architecture of radical reform in nineteenth-century America4
Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens?4
Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures4
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world4
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics a4
Turning to the imaginary: Stuart Hall’s interventions in visual arts and cultural studies4
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
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis3
Designing Chineseness: an interview with Mingxuan Shen on the New Wonton typeface3
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies3
Visual studies: A social scientific perspective3
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation3
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec3
Editors’ introduction3
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia3
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK3
Visualising enclosure: the architecture of separation in campus life3
Copyright as an ethical dimension of visual research: preserving ownership across the research process3
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology3
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)3
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal3
Looking at Laurie; reconsidering an image of ‘madness’2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media2
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities: Mountain View ’s (2021) advertisement as a case study2
Kejawen tradition and sacred water practices in Central Java, Indonesia2
Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach2
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites2
Mothering myths. An ABC of art, birth and care2
The social life of private thoughts2
Graphic journeys: virtual dark tourism in Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza2
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain2
Editorial2
Wake up, this is Joburg2
Dandelions in the mirror: identity construction and family dynamics in a case study of Chinese lesbians2
Preserving indigenous cultural narratives through mixed-media and digital animation2
Visualizing entrenched historical trauma and inherited fear: a linguistic and semiotic landscape account of Jakarta’s traditional Chinatown Glodok2
Visual stratification and algorithmic hegemony in digital visual culture of China2
Editorial2
Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create2
Editorial2
Graphic interventions on child sexual abuse: the case of Indian narratives2
Curating visual materials in sociological research: sensing cruise aquamobilities and urban change2
Making a scene!: How visionary individuals created an international photography scene in Houston, Texas2
A theory of assembly: From museums to memes1
Methodology for a comparative quantitative analysis of film colour: a comparison between Cannes and box-office results1
Whom to Follow: The Staged Satire of Chinese Education in Wang Qingsong’s Photography1
Macao and Hengqin on China’s southern coast: aesthetic reading of infrastructural materiality and island integration1
Co-producing place narratives: participatory visual storytelling through the lens of youth1
Emoji and social media paralanguage1
Editorial1
Decoding the symbolic storm fuelling Greek far-right politics: a visual essay1
Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies1
Sociomateriality and infrastructure in action: the politics of border design through ethnographic photography1
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal1
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies1
Sounding of the idols. Visual deception and religious images in Brazil1
Topologies of air1
The coloniality beneath the aesthetics: a study on the reclining female schema in modern Chinese photography1
Visions and divisions of the world: the case of the Pallaqueras in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mines in Southern Perù1
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China1
What is an image in the digital age?1
Visualising state-led gentrification in Tāmaki, Auckland1
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok1
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes1
The eye of capital. Jonathan Crary and the history of attention1
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine1
From pages to posts: the evolution of memory-making from scrapbooking to Instagram1
Decoding visual culture1
Finding the local (meta)picture1
Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Altamira1
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries1
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information1
Embodying parkour’s visual subculture: ethos, style and the emergence of a visual habitus1
Visual ethnography of the Dandari Gusadi festival of the Raj Gonds of Telangana, India: focusing on the social and ceremonial cultural expressions1
#EverydayNile Correspondences1
Representing the unrepresentable. An interpretative study of Ukraine war photojournalism1
The Unfinished Business of Astley Castle: interdisciplinarity, palimpsest and contemporaneities1
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco1
The image is a cure1
Imagining the city1
Everything to Play For: How videogames are changing the world1
Dirty pictures1
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G201
Visionary art and the limits of social constructivism1
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel1
Lettuce grow in the city1
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China1
Gazing through the window: A participatory Covid-19-exhibition for a nation in crisis1
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny1
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution1
The Myths of Myrskylä– Light painting local stories and enhancing empathy for the place0
The in:visible antenna: invisibility and the visual becoming of mobile communication infrastructures0
Editors' introduction0
Kodachrome and the fantasy of colourisation or what time is there?0
‘What do we see when we look at people on the move’? A visual intervention into civil sphere and symbolic boundary theory0
Citizens’ photography: a comparative analysis0
Building internal reputation in stigmatised neighbourhoods: the use of remote participatory photo mapping0
A sad tree: visualising ecological emotions through bodies in place0
In/human hues: colourisation between photography and film0
Sonic signatures: Music, migration and the city at night0
Machinic aerial vision and the automation of perceptual authority0
Smoothness, beauty, and persuasion in Chinese political visual culture0
Chasing the unseen real: the birth of a Xianniang animation and the post-Qualitative inquiry awakening0
Becoming a feminist sensory sociologist: a rhizomic view0
Homes that house precarity: a visual essay on capturing an eco-dystopian reality0
Visuality and Parrēsia : Ai Weiwei’s countervisual re-enactment of Alan Kurdi’s image0
‘All the good spots are already taken’: the visual properties of interior social sceneries0
Revisiting the Kahn collection: multimodal artificial intelligence and visual patterns of presence and absence in the Archives de la Planète , 1909–19310
Lost places: mental images as an expanded form of visuality in Chile's popular revolt0
From bricoleur to carver – A methodological provocation from video ethnographic inquiry0
Theoretical, methodological, and ethical proposal to produce critical-liberating cinema: a Freirean perspective0
Beyond the visuality of Western architecture. The Chinese home from inward haven to outward representation0
Nervous systems: Art, systems, and politics since the 1960s0
Enactive sight: the intersection of architectural space and cinematic camerawork in videogame visualisations0
Familia, 20180
The influence of Russian religious aesthetics on Russian animation0
The human shutter: photographs, stereoscopic depth, and moving images0
Seeing is no longer believing: visual-AI, deepfakes, and the semiotics of synthetic images0
Rebranding the nation: advertising, ideology, and collective identity in post-revolutionary Iran0
Will I ever be good enough?0
Delta voices of climate crisis: Community Digital Storytelling in Bangladesh and Vietnam0
The photography of José Gómez de la Carrera and the construction of the territorial image of the early Republic of Cuba0
Shifting perspectives: exploring the intersection of traditional and digital photography in contemporary artistic practices0
Film ethnography and critical consciousness: exploring a community-based action research methodology for Freirean transformation0
Lewis Carroll: photography on the move; Singular images, failed copies: William Henry Fox Talbot and the early photograph0
What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities0
STEEP PRICE: weavers in Varanasi0
Framing urbanities: invisible/visible urban assemblages0
Ethnografilm review0
Correction0
Editors’ introduction0
Seeing South Asia: visuals beyond borders0
IC (Italy - China) love affair: reconceptualizing Chinese imagery in 1980s Italo-disco vinyl covers0
Likeness in the age of new media: on the endless mutability of images0
Virtual identity construction in translanguaging spaces: unveiling the semiotic power of emojis in Lil Miquela 's Instagram posts0
Notions of the visible and the invisible: visualising the otherness of women with invisible (gynaecological) illness0
Ring this bell if you want to save our planet0
Quiet Spaces: Public Places – visual representation of vulnerable identities0
Para/texts for the movie Archie’s Final Project: navigating stigma and profit imperatives to discuss suicide and human connections0
That venerable old temple, 20220
The place of poetics within documentary filmmaking: The art of fact0
Visual Sociology 2nd Edition Douglas Harper and Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials 5th Edition Gillian Rose0
Oak tree, gum tree: screen collaborations across time zones, 20220
Border tunnels: a media theory of the U.S.-Mexico underground0
States of Australia’s agri-environment: visual extractions from degraded landscapes0
A microhistorical analysis of the photograph of Hacienda de Cañasgordas : visual representation, social use, and memory0
Review of Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology0
‘Totally present’: swimming subjectivities and cinematic representations0
The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity0
Unnatural nature – visual, spatial, and temporal contexts controlling our air0
Professionalism, privilege and publicity: representations of development cooperation in amateur photography and Finnish newspapers, 1968–19720
Quiet resilience0
The spectacle of the Chinese city: urban atmospheres, the built environment and everyday practices0
Everyday leisure in a negotiated park: visualising publicness and (Un)commoning in Cairo0
Metaphoric visual expressions in African art: an iconographical analysis of selected artworks by contemporary visual artists0
Performativity and intersemiotic translation in contemporary art: the case of Hong Kong Atlas0
Guest Editors’ introduction0
Practicing a sociology of imaginaries in an occupied cinema0
Waste Not Want Not : art, recycling and community building in a Johannesburg creative collaboration0
Living with Cheki : producing the affective materiality of instant photography in the Chinese live idol culture0
Images of Childhood: A Visual History from Stone to Screen0
The body of prison power0
From canvas to cyberspace: contemporary Tibetan art and the digital Tibetan identity landscape0
The crisis of ugliness: From cubism to pop-art0
Seeing a pandemic: how COVID changed urban spaces and places0
A beautiful ghetto0
Tracks and traces: Exploring the world of graffiti writing through visual methods0
‘Undressing the Icon/Visualizing the habitus.’ Series 1: Jean-François Clervoy (ESA/NASA)0
The Sound of a Room: Memory and Auditory Presence of Place0
Influence of media and celebrity identification on tattoo choices, motifs, and body image perceptions among young Iranian women0
‘DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING’: tactility, COVID-19, and graphic medicine0
Experiments with immediacy and practices of interactivity: bodies of artists in early Japanese video art0
What is an Image? Artists’ panel transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 20220
Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism0
The loneliness room: a creative ethnography of loneliness0
A feminist rewriting of cartoon captions0
Pictures of Longing: Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration0
Remembering Howie0
Heir to the throne: photography and the rise to presidency by politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa0
Cold War Camera0
Guest Editors’ introduction0
Polka - Using the Camera as a Research Instrument0
If_I_Had_Let_Me, 20220
Resilient rebound: a visual essay on materials science researchers confronting plastic pollution in the post-COVID-19 era0
Parallel public: experimental art in late east Germany0
Camouflaging colonialism: a case study of a NeoColonial Museum0
Engaging young people in architectural research: three visual methods for understanding the impact of the built environment on children’s wellbeing0
A change of luck: the comics scholarship of Hillary Chute0
Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil0
Story Poles (Solana Beach, California), 20210
Painting in the 1980s: Reimagining the medium0
Correction0
The techno-politics of programming vision0
Visual representation of social traumas: an examination of the logo of ‘Champion Angels’0
All computer vision models are wrong/useful: reflections on automatic detection of gender in historical photographs0
Creative endings: visual cultures, generative AI & machinic intuitions0
Whether every tree's birthday falls in the spring0
Mortevivum: photography and the politics of the visual0
Signs of change: community, collective action, and gentrification in Brooklyn, New York0
The media swirl: Politics, audiovisuality, and aesthetics0
Addressing corruption through visual tools in India: the case of three civil society initiatives and their Facebook pages0
Colourised histories, reading digital/analogue photography and film archives now0
Shaping Roman Landscape: Ecocritical Approaches to Architecture and Wall Painting in Early Imperial Italy0
Chornobyl visual lexicon: exploring the visual framing of toxic heritage from the point of view of participatory culture0
Visualizing climate imaginaries0
Breathing aesthetics0
Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in the shadow of catastrophe0
Svalbard Railway (Rachel Tanur 2022 1st Prize)0
Life in the Tapajós National Forest: a harmonious blend of culture and nature0
Interweaving artist-researcher-teacher identities: facilitating visitor-artwork interactions0
Filmic sociology: theory and practice0
‘No children were harmed’: aesthetic infrastructures and ethical implications of AI-generated portraits0
Multisensory approaches in migration research: reflections and pathways0
Preserving the ephemeral: A visual typology of augmented reality filters on Instagram0
The Persian painting and the Iranian Traditional Medicine0
Using visual technology in educational ethnography: Theory, method and the visual0
Non-literary fiction: Art of the Americas under neoliberalism0
Interconnectedness, place and growth: a visual essay on transformative learning0
Editorial0
Participating and observing: Howie up close0
Gustav Fritsch’s photographs of mid-nineteenth-century southern Africa0
Spirit in film: the work of James Ault0
Traces of Marxist discourse in Iranian cinema0
Urban research in film using walking tours and psychogeographic approaches0
Crisis vision: Race and the cultural production of surveillance0
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