Journal of Visual Culture

Journal of Visual Culture is an international refereed journal that welcomes compelling, critically engaged contributions that explore and expand trans-disciplinary global visual cultures.

LATEST MAGAZINE ARTICLES

Ruins of the sublime
Ruins of the sublime
In critical conversation with Gabriel Figueroa's sublime, Mitzi Falcón exposes the entanglements of ruination, colonialism, and environmental violence in Mexico.
Basquiat’s black-eyed beams
Basquiat’s black-eyed beams
Basquiat’s brushstrokes in UFOs offer a crash course in the history of Black flight, from the Black slave seeking to flee the deadly sugar plantations of the Americas to the minor traffic violator driving his Toyota Camry a little too fast in today's US.
Nothing more than a passport
Nothing more than a passport
A personal reflection on how identity, migration, and bureaucracy intersect visually through the seemingly simple object of a passport.
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January 15, 2025
Øyvind Vågnes obituary
October 1, 2024
Call for contributors
The Journal of Visual Culture (JVC) is inviting contributions to its upcoming open issues and its online magazine.
July 1, 2022
IAVC / JVC Early Career Researcher Prize CFP
The International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture invite submissions for the Early Career Researcher Prize. Current doctoral students and recent PhDs (within 5 years of degree) may submit original, unpublished essays on any topic related to visual culture. The prize-winning essay/s will be considered for publication in the journal, pending revisions advised by the committee and the journal’s editorial collective.