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Blackboard voices Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Luc Pauwels
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Heir to the throne: photography and the rise to presidency by politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Lungile Augustine Tshuma
Photographs are rarely given much academic attention, especially, in Africa. This is against the popular use of photography in political communication. Against this background, this study examines ...
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Editorial Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Julie Patarin-Jossec, John Grady, Susan Hansen, Gary Bratchford, Kate Korroch
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 3-4, 2023)
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‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Livine Ancy A
There is a world, invisible to many, of terminally ill people being cared for full time by a loving family member or friend. These caregivers are living with burdens and pressures that even regular...
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Protecting the future ‘Us’: a rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Virpi Salojärvi, Emilia Palonen, Laura Horsmanheimo, Roosa-Maria Kylli
The far right is active on social media, including YouTube for its outreach, community-building and mainstreaming of radical content. This article compares campaign videos of two distinct Finnish far-right parties. It develops a rhetoric-performative and multimodal analysis of audiovisual material and unveils how the contemporary Finnish far right articulates and performs affectively ‘us’ through counterhegemonic
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Interweaving artist-researcher-teacher identities: facilitating visitor-artwork interactions Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Juyoung Yoo
This visual essay portrays how an artist-researcher-teacher investigates the idea of a/r/tography and constructivist teaching pedagogy while using her own artwork, Fantasy Museum, as a platform for teaching. Fantasy Museum features a series of digitally altered photographs of museum visitors viewing emptied artworks, and visitors are invited to draw their own collections inside the empty spaces, which
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A theory of assembly: From museums to memes Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Caitlin Swindell
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Addressing corruption through visual tools in India: the case of three civil society initiatives and their Facebook pages Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Anwesha Chakraborty, Alice Mattoni
In the past decades, several grassroots movement organisations across the world have tackled the issue of corruption with the aim of mobilising knowledge on this widespread problem. In our paper, we look at three bottom-up civil society organisations and collective actors fighting for greater transparency and curbing of corruption in Indian society, highlighting how they employ visuals to debate on
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Nervous systems: Art, systems, and politics since the 1960s Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Rachelle Sabourin
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Anita Strasser
This visual essay has two aims. On the one hand, it is intended as a visual exploration of gentrification-induced displacement. It focuses on photographic material generated for Deptford is Changing, a research project which exposed and politicised the emotional upheaval caused by contemporary state-led gentrification in Deptford, south-east London. On the other hand, the essay presents socially and
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Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Michelle Mansfield, Pam Nilan, Gregorius Ragil Wibawanto
Street art in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta is popular, dynamic and vibrant. Like other cities such as Buenos Aires, it has become something of a tourist attraction in its own right. This article examines Yogyakarta street art as a visual phenomenon that activates political change potential in three ways. First, it provokes the critical consideration of ordinary people who pass by the walls and
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Monitoring North Korea: a visual autoethnography of humanitarian-aid practices Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 David Shim
In this visual essay, I draw on my own photographs taken as a so-called food-aid monitor working in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the United Nations World Food Programme. I provide an autoethnographic account to allow consideration of the visual dimension of humanitarian aid: everyday observations, field visits and snapshots inform humanitarian action. I intend to shed a different light
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Crip genealogies Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Sophia Booth Magnone
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Multisensory approaches in migration research: reflections and pathways Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Amandine Desille, Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła
The rapidly developing field of visual methods and growing body of literature employing visual methodologies in the collection of data have contributed to the acknowledgement of the senses with a prevalence of sight in the research process. Yet, the ‘sensuous scholarship’ is not always considered in the systematic methodological process when visual methodologies are at stake. The aim of this paper
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‘DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING’: tactility, COVID-19, and graphic medicine Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Ishani Anwesha Joshi, Sathyaraj Venkatesan
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the precarious porosity of the human body. Biological vulnerability and the fear of contagion in recent times has prompted the exercise of caution by enforcing distinct demarcating boundaries between the environment, the self, and the other. Thus, the faculty of touch is restricted despite its importance in functional, developmental, haptic, intimate, non-verbal, therapeutic
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Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G20 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Ryan McCaffrey, Kiah Rutz
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Elaborated images as decolonial praxis Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Laurence Butet-Roch, Deanna Del Vecchio
Among lens-based artists and educators, the generative potential of annotating photographs, especially in participatory contexts, is commonly understood. Responding to a lack of cohesive labelling and description of these practices in the literature, the authors identify them as elaborated images and categorise how the method operates. Elaborated images unsettle the authoritative perspective of the
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Crisis vision: Race and the cultural production of surveillance Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Julia Chan
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Spirit in film: the work of James Ault Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Jenn Lindsay
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Everett Hughes: a moment on film Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Douglas Harper
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 3-4, 2023)
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The Routledge companion to art and disability Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-09 Gabrielle Stecher
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Editorial Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Susan Hansen, Kate Korroch, Julie Patarin-Jossec, John Grady, Gary Bratchford, Derek Conrad Murray
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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If_I_Had_Let_Me, 2022 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Andrea Illés
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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With images in mind, 2022 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Jon Wagner, Don Walker
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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That venerable old temple, 2022 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Marc Miller
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Story Poles (Solana Beach, California), 2021 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 David Schalliol
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Oak tree, gum tree: screen collaborations across time zones, 2022 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Catherine Gough-Brady, Christine Rogers
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Familia, 2018 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Libby Paloma
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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What is an Image? Artists’ panel transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 2022 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Sabina Andron, Gaby David, Laya Hooshyari, Andrea Illés, Kate Korroch, Ryan Page, Libby Paloma, Kerstin Roger, David Schalliol, Jon Wagner
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Being specific about ‘digital images’ Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Gillian Rose
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Images among images: a map scholar response Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Tania Rossetto
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Likeness in the age of new media: on the endless mutability of images Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Ace Lehner
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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What is an image in the digital age? Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Crystal Abidin
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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The techno-politics of programming vision Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Heba Y. Amin, Anthony Downey
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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The image is a cure Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Paolo S.H. Favero
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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The atopic image Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 M. C. Cambre
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Dirty pictures Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Jeff Ferrell
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Building material languages of trauma: in conversation with Laura Magnusson Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Laura Magnusson, Julie Patarin-Jossec, Kate Korroch, Susan Hansen
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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In conversation: Bishop Black and Alexa Vachon on representation, knowing, and making (together) Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Alexa Vachon
Selections from Alexa Vachon’s series S/KIN BERLIN 52.49° N, 13.42° E were featured in the ‘What is an Image’ digital exhibition curated by Visual Studies co-editor Kate Korroch for the 2022 International Visual Sociology Conference (What is an image? is available to view online until 18 September 2023. https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/10672487/what-is-an-image). One of Vachon’s photographs
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What is an Image? Roundtable transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 2022 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-06 John Grady, Susan Hansen, Gillian Rose, Treaandrea M. Russworm, Paolo Favero, Oraib Toukan, Crystal Abidin, Ace Lehner, M.C. Cambre, Gaby David, Tania Rossetto
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Juxtaposition and visualising the middle ground in the unequal city Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Geoffrey DeVerteuil
This photo essays fleshes out the notion of juxtaposition, both as an empirical reality in unequal cities but also as a visual and aesthetic technique to capture the overlaps between powerful and everyday city fabrics. Across a series of nine images, I illustrate the visual practice of juxtaposition by finding the edge of the two fabrics within the same place, of contrasting textures and tones, the
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Reading Reisewitz’s Altamira: An Analytical and Evocative Photo-Study Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Brian F. O’Neill
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Iconoclash and the climate movement Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Joshua Garland
Priceless artworks are being destroyed or, at least, they appear to be. Yet the very act of climate protest targeting these works in what could be construed as acts of vandalism are in themselves productive of new visual media through which climate concern and urgency is conveyed. This article offers reflections upon one way in which these protest actions may be conceptually understood. It does so
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The architecture of disability: buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Kachun Alex Wong
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘I don’t fit that stereotype’: participant photography and the visual (re)positioning of Black men Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Quaylan Allen
This paper examines how Black men use a participant photography project as a tool for meaning making during the current political and social context of anti-Black racism, Black activism, and intersectional politics. Using a critical visual methodology in the analysis of the images, this paper will examine how Black men make meaning of current social issues through the types of images they produced
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Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Marita Ibañez Sandoval
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Seeing South Asia: visuals beyond borders Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Reviewed by Paola Tiné
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Three stories of one truth? Visual framing of AP, CNN & FOX news Instagram coverage of the 2020 US presidential candidates Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Gizem Melek, Zohair Raza
Framing bias was suggested in earlier research and media outlets have been accused of partisan tendencies in accordance with the political leanings they are supposedly associated with in popular imagination. The 2008 election cycle presented compelling evidence for the influence wielded by social media platforms in political communication, thereby establishing them as critical tools for candidates’
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Rethinking verticality through top-down views in drone hobbyist photography Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Lauren Alex O’Hagan, Elisa Serafinelli
This paper adopts a geosemiotics perspective to the study of top-down views produced by drone hobbyists to explore how they challenge or disrupt traditional meanings associated with verticality. Using a dataset of 748 drone visuals collected from two months of participant observation on social media platforms, we identify four unique functions of top-down views: as abstract art, as transformations
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The Myths of Myrskylä– Light painting local stories and enhancing empathy for the place Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-21
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Breathing aesthetics Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Margaryta Golovchenko
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Dressing and undressing Duchamp Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Jeppe Ugelvig
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Parallel public: experimental art in late east Germany Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Senem Yildirim
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Sharing and redefining power with Vice President Harris: the visual framing by the Biden White House Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Russell Chun
This study investigates the visual framing of the Biden Presidency based on a content analysis of images released by the White House for its first 100 days in office on Flickr, an online photo-sharing site. The rhetorical ideas of Kenneth Burke and the communication theories of agenda-setting and frame-building provide the conceptual foundations for the study. The Biden administration frames Vice President
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Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Mohammad Aliakbari, Ayad Kamalvand
Considering the popularity of online platforms and their significant force in producing collective discourses, attitudes, and patterns of behaviours, this study critically examined the photographic portrayal of old Iranians on websites during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focuses on this age group, which has been identified as the most vulnerable to the virus. Photographs of old people during COVID-19
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Looking Through Images. A Phenomenology of Visual Media Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Vlad Ionescu
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Lewis Carroll: photography on the move; Singular images, failed copies: William Henry Fox Talbot and the early photograph Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-17 Melody Davis
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Methodology for a comparative quantitative analysis of film colour: a comparison between Cannes and box-office results Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Nadia McGowan, Jordi Gaset
This paper proposes a method for quantitative colour analysis aimed at determining colour variation between different sets of films with a common selection criterion. The process is exemplified by comparing films selected at the Cannes Film Festival and the highest-grossing films in the years 1988 and 2018. The method will try to answer several questions. Firstly, whether there are any differences
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Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Lizzie Thynne
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2023)
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Editorial Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Julie Patarin-Jossec, Gary Bratchford, John Grady, Susan Hansen, Kate Korroch
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 1, 2023)