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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Stencil in the centre of Athens11
Images among images: a map scholar response10
On AI colourisation: algorithms, ancestry, and colour beyond the black box7
The future of visual studies live roundtable. International Visual Sociology Association 40th annual conference, 7 July 20217
The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History7
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)7
New species in the Mediterranean: a visual essay on human impact on biodiversity6
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks6
The faces of Auschwitz: digital colourisation, ethics and the archive6
Response to questionnaire: visual studies now5
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India4
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey4
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin4
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong4
CODA: visual studies now4
Looking into Visual Studies4
Gentrification and changing visual landscapes: a Google Street View analysis of residential upgrading and class aesthetics in Hamilton’s Lower City3
Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia3
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color3
A pictured Africa: drawing as a visual qualitative research methodology for examining British African Diaspora imaginings of their ancestral ‘home’3
Undisciplining visual studies3
Context and movement: Attica Series Desk and the future of visual studies3
Editorial3
In light of #MeToo: reconsidering the art/artist relationship for better futures3
Future City, 20213
Dressing and undressing Duchamp3
Living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic: how did it feel for EU citizens?3
Design cards as visual interventions: visualising and visioning net zero futures3
Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition3
Elements of a riot: forms of political violence in contemporary France3
La sociologie filmique: Théories et pratiques2
Prosody: an ode to the city2
Visual framing in the German movements for gay liberation and against nuclear energy2
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies2
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)2
Correction2
The social life of private thoughts2
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal2
Commentary for Visual Studies2
Facilitating Black identity and advocacy: creating cellphilms for reflecting on issues affecting Black students2
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK2
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis2
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology2
Home is where it happens: a visual essay on pandemic parenting for employed mothers2
A critical assessment of the Russian-language literature in the field of visual culture2
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation2
Political storytelling of Ekrem İmamoğlu on Instagram during 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections in Turkey2
Visual studies questionnaire: how do you engage with the visual, and what is its importance in the twenty-first century?2
Neither spectacular nor ordinary: a visual essay on imaginations and homes in Beijing from 2007 to 20192
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics and their narrative space2
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world2
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec2
Cross-cultural visual communication at the Wanchin Church in Taiwan2
Spaces in between: using the Zwischenraum to explore the archiving practices of young expats in Berlin2
Being specific about ‘digital images’2
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia2
Imagining the city1
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information1
Editorial1
Corona de Flores; some visual issues of coronavirus1
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries1
Counter narrative of President Buhari’s narrative on Nigerian youths with visual images and texts on Facebook1
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China1
Topologies of air Topologies of air by Shona Illingworthedited by Anthony DowneyToronto: The Power Plant and London: Sternberg Press, 1
Where are the students?1
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution1
Editorial1
Editorial1
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco1
Screen culture, online auctions, and art market spectacle1
Interspecies intercorporeality and mediated haptic sociality: distributing perception with a guide dog1
Sounding of the idols. Visual deception and religious images in Brazil1
Bridging memories: training the imagination to go visiting in Israel/Palestine1
Remembering and forgetting: using photographs as social artefacts in an aged care setting1
Reimagining food systems and food futures: a visual approach1
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities:Mountain View’s (2021) advertisement as a case study1
Wake up, this is Joburg1
Decoding visual culture1
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies1
Editorial1
Finding the local (meta)picture1
Visual studies now. Visions of immunity1
Remembering Rob Boonzajer Flaes1
#EverydayNile Correspondences1
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny1
Coming off fossil fuels: Visual recollection of fossil fuel dependency1
Dirty pictures1
The coloniality beneath the aesthetics: a study on the reclining female schema in modern Chinese photography1
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine1
The whiteboard: visualising personal agency in a lockdown microcosm1
Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create1
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media1
Miao traditional patterns: the origins and design transformation1
Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Altamira1
Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies1
When the cannons roar, comics panels fall silent: on silent representations of traumatic events in Israeli comics and graphic novels1
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China1
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain1
The hidden messages concealed in the 1970s stamp series ‘Landscapes of Israel’1
Response to questionnaire: visual studies now1
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel1
Other Lines: visualising shifting horizons and atmospheric pollution along the Wirral Peninsula1
Performing for the camera: queer migration, sex work, and objecthood1
The people are not an image: Vernacular video after the Arab spring1
The baggage of representation: man with a red carrier bag searching for a signal1
On reciprocity: expanding the dialogue between disciplines1
Gazing through the window: A participatory Covid-19-exhibition for a nation in crisis1
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites1
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