Most cited papers in Photography and Visual Culture

Photography and Visual Culture

What are the most cited papers in Photography and Visual Culture?

The most cited paper in Photography and Visual Culture is "9. The Generation Of Postmemory" (Marianne Hirsch, 2008), with 1,930 citations. Next come "Art and Agency An Anthropological Theory" (1,119) and "The Image of Objectivity" (1,075).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 81 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	9. The Generation Of Postmemory Marianne Hirsch · Poetics Today Open access	Mar 2008	1,930
2	Art and Agency An Anthropological Theory Stephanie Takaragawa · Visual Anthropology Review	Sep 1998	1,119
3	The Image of Objectivity Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison · Representations	1992	1,075
4	JFK and dark tourism: A fascination with assassination Malcolm Foley, J. John Lennon · International Journal of Heritage Studies	Dec 1996	688
5	Colour as a Secondary Quality1 Paul Artin Boghossian, J. David Velleman · Mind	1989	397
6	The fact of blackness : Frantz Fanon and visual representation Alan Read	1996	381
7	Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans. George H. Roeder, Alan Trachtenberg · The American Historical Review	Dec 1990	342
8	CONSTRUCTING DIFFERENCE IN PUBLIC SPACES: RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER AS INTERLOCKING SYSTEMS Susan M. Ruddick · Urban Geography	Feb 1996	322
9	Visual sociology: Expanding sociological vision Douglas Harper · The American Sociologist	Mar 1988	315
10	Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context Howard S. Becker · Visual Sociology	1995	306
11	Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture Mieke Bal · Journal of Visual Culture Open access	Apr 2003	305
12	Illuminated Atmospheres: Anticipating and Reproducing the Flow of Affective Experience in Blackpool Tim Edensor · Environment and Planning D Society and Space	2012	296
13	The reconfigured eye: Visual truth in the post-photographic era Cynni Murphy · Journal of the American Society for Information Science	Oct 1993	285
14	Geopolitics and visuality: Sighting the Darfur conflict David J.T. Campbell · Political Geography Open access	23 Jan 2007	275
15	Objects of Affect: Photography Beyond the Image Elizabeth Edwards · Annual Review of Anthropology Review	24 Sep 2012	275
16	Give and take Andrew Miller, W. Keith Edwards Conference paper	29 Apr 2007	252
17	Reading emotions from and into faces: Resurrecting a dimensional-contextual perspective James A. Russell · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	28 Mar 1997	251
18	Speaking For, Speaking About, Speaking With, or Speaking Alongside — An Anthropological and Documentary Dilemma Jay Ruby · Visual Anthropology Review	Sep 1991	248
19	The right to look: A counterhistory of visuality Judith R. Halasz · Visual Studies	6 Sep 2012	241
20	Sociologia da fotografia e da imagem Luiz Armando Bagolin, Magali Reis · Tempo Social Open access	2009	238
21	Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics Susan Murray · Journal of Visual Culture	24 Jul 2008	223
22	Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of Images Shelly Errington · American Anthropologist	25 May 2006	221
23	AN EXCESS OF DESCRIPTION: Ethnography, Race, and Visual Technologies Deborah Poole · Annual Review of Anthropology Review	16 Sep 2005	216
24	The burden of visual truth: The role of photojournalism in mediating reality Julianne H. Newton · Visual Communication Quarterly	Sep 1998	201
25	Visual Studies and the Iconic Turn Keith P. F. Moxey · Journal of Visual Culture	24 Jul 2008	199
26	Families Seen Sightseeing Jonas Larsen · Space and Culture	5 Oct 2005	198
27	Just Images: Aesthetics, Ethics and Visual Criminology Eamonn Carrabine · The British Journal of Criminology Open access	19 Mar 2012	196
28	Visual Culture: The Study of the Visual after the Cultural Turn Edward Winters · The British Journal of Aesthetics	Jul 2006	186
29	Urban Rhetoric and Embodied Identities: City, Nation, and Empire at the Vittorio Emanuele II Monument in Rome, 1870–1945 David N. Atkinson, Denis E. Cosgrove · Annals of the Association of American Geographers	Mar 1998	186
30	Sears’ repair of its auto service image: Image restoration discourse in the corporate sector William Lyon Benoit · Communication Studies	Mar 1995	184
31	Picture This: the Impact of Mobile Camera Phones on Personal Photographic Practices Lisa Gye · Continuum Open access	8 May 2007	182
32	Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums Liam Buckley · Visual Anthropology Review	Mar 2002	181
33	PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE SOUND OF HISTORY Elizabeth Edwards · Visual Anthropology Review	Mar 2005	179
34	A LIFE MORE PHOTOGRAPHIC Daniel Rubinstein, Katrina Sluis · Photographies	11 Feb 2008	179
35	Photographic visions and narrative inquiry Barbara A. Harrison · Narrative Inquiry	26 Sep 2002	176
36	Memory, consumerism and media: Reflections on the emergence of the field Marita Sturken · Memory Studies	14 Dec 2007	172
37	The Haunted Gallery: painting, photography, film c. 1900 Patrick D. Reagan · Historical Journal Of Film Radio and Television	24 Aug 2010	165
38	Recycled Images: the Art and Politics of Found Footage Films William C. Wees · Revista Laika Open access	18 May 2021	164
39	Thinking with images in non‐representational cities: vignettes from Berlin Alan Latham, Derek P. McCormack · Area	3 Feb 2009	161
40	Reconstructing the visual image in space and time H. B. Barlow · Nature	May 1979	154
41	Accessing audiences: visiting visitor books Sharon Macdonald · Museum and Society Open access	9 Apr 2015	154
42	Archival temples, archival prisons: Modes of power and protection Eric Ketelaar · Archives and Museum Informatics	Sep 2002	152
43	On the discrepancy between objects and things: An ecological approach Fernando Domínguez Rubio · Journal of Material Culture	Mar 2016	150
44	Icon: Studies in the history of an idea Harry Rand · History of European Ideas	Nov 1993	146
45	What a Documentary Is, After All Carl Plantinga · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism	Mar 2005	143
46	Toxic Sublime: Imaging Contaminated Landscapes Jennifer Peeples · Environmental Communication	7 Nov 2011	142
47	After Authenticity at an American Heritage Site Eric Gable, Richard Handler · American Anthropologist	Sep 1996	141
48	Practices and Flows of Digital Photography: An Ethnographic Framework Jonas Larsen · Mobilities	24 Jan 2008	136
49	Walking as an Aesthetic Practice and a Critical Tool: Some Psychogeographic Experiments Keith Bassett · Journal of Geography in Higher Education	Nov 2004	135
50	Practising photography: an archive, a study, some photographs and a researcher Gillian Rose · Journal of Historical Geography	Oct 2000	132

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