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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)15
Photography and reality. Reflections around the role of the photographer among photo students in Russia and Sweden9
The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History9
Images among images: a map scholar response8
Ephemeral literacies: reflecting on the impermanence of maize reading divination7
On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box6
The faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the archive6
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India5
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin5
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong5
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color4
In light of #MeToo: reconsidering the art/artist relationship for better futures4
Editorial4
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey4
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City4
Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures4
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks4
New species in the Mediterranean: a visual essay on human impact on biodiversity4
Elements of a riot: forms of political violence in contemporary France4
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK3
Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens?3
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal3
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies3
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis3
Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia3
Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition3
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 20193
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world3
Being specific about ‘digital images’3
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec3
Facilitating Black identity and advocacy: creating cellphilms for reflecting on issues affecting Black students3
Dressing and undressing Duchamp3
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics and their narrative space3
Prosody: an ode to the city3
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)3
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation3
Editors’ introduction3
The shape of Utopia: the architecture of radical reform in nineteenth-century America3
Looking at Laurie; reconsidering an image of ‘madness’2
Cross-cultural visual communication at the Wanchin Church in Taiwan2
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology2
Graphic journeys: virtual dark tourism in Joe Sacco’s Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza2
The social life of private thoughts2
Visual stratification and algorithmic hegemony in digital visual culture of China2
Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach2
Editorial2
Making a scene!: How visionary individuals created an international photography scene in Houston, Texas2
Spaces in between: using the Zwischenraum to explore the archiving practices of young expats in Berlin2
Designing Chineseness: an interview with Mingxuan Shen on the New Wonton typeface2
A critical assessment of the Russian-language literature in the field of visual culture2
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain2
When the cannons roar, comics panels fall silent: on silent representations of traumatic events in Israeli comics and graphic novels2
Editorial2
Visualizing entrenched historical trauma and inherited fear: a linguistic and semiotic landscape account of Jakarta’s traditional Chinatown Glodok2
Home is where it happens: a visual essay on pandemic parenting for employed mothers2
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia2
Copyright as an ethical dimension of visual research: preserving ownership across the research process2
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media2
Editorial2
Wake up, this is Joburg2
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities:Mountain View’s (2021) advertisement as a case study2
Co-producing place narratives: participatory visual storytelling through the lens of youth1
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies1
Dirty pictures1
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal1
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel1
Gazing through the window: A participatory Covid-19-exhibition for a nation in crisis1
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China1
The coloniality beneath the aesthetics: a study on the reclining female schema in modern Chinese photography1
The unlimited joy, ‘once you start you can’t stop’: masculinity in domestic technology commercials in Turkey1
Whom to Follow: The Staged Satire of Chinese Education in Wang Qingsong’s Photography1
What is an image in the digital age?1
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok1
Everything to Play For: How videogames are changing the world1
Macao and Hengqin on China’s southern coast: aesthetic reading of infrastructural materiality and island integration1
Decoding visual culture1
Editorial1
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China1
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco1
Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation: opportunities, tensions & ethical considerations1
Visualising state-led gentrification in Tāmaki, Auckland1
Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Altamira1
Other Lines: visualising shifting horizons and atmospheric pollution along the Wirral Peninsula1
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information1
A room of your own: photographs of situations of well-being taken by patients suffering from a stress-related illness1
Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create1
The business of postcolonial immigration: marketing of immigration services in Punjab, India1
Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies1
Emoji and social media paralanguage1
Decoding the symbolic storm fuelling Greek far-right politics: a visual essay1
The image is a cure1
From pages to posts: the evolution of memory-making from scrapbooking to Instagram1
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny1
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine1
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries1
Topologies of air1
#EverydayNile Correspondences1
Lettuce grow in the city1
Coming off fossil fuels: Visual recollection of fossil fuel dependency1
Finding the local (meta)picture1
Sounding of the idols. Visual deception and religious images in Brazil1
A theory of assembly: From museums to memes1
Imagining the city1
A study of transgender: in the reflection of historical context and contemporary artistic expressions of Lahore, Pakistan1
The eye of capital. Jonathan Crary and the history of attention1
Methodology for a comparative quantitative analysis of film colour: a comparison between Cannes and box-office results1
Embodying parkour’s visual subculture: ethos, style and the emergence of a visual habitus1
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes1
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution1
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G201
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