This session invites papers that explore photographic albums as valuable records of visual expressions of the cultural politics of colonialism during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Produced a...

This article, building on previous work, explores the ways in which eroticism and material culture interacted in Bacon’s early paintings by situating his work in the context of religious, commodity...

The Handsworth Self Portrait project (1979) was a makeshift outdoor studio that challenged the media’s criminalizing portrayals of Handsworth and its black community by inviting residents to take t...

Responding to their recent dissolution, this article reflects on the implications of Just Stop Oil for art history. I challenge the widespread assumption that art is inherently separated from clima...

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

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Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)

In 1897, as part of a wide-ranging exhibition to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Henrietta Rae curated a display of artworks by over 180 women. Analysing architectural plans, press revi...

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 23, No. 1, 2025)

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2024)

On Photography and Care, Edited by Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad, Elin Haugdal, Stephanie von Spreter and Hanne Hammer Stien. Volume 18, Issue 1 of photographies

Published in Visual Culture in Britain (Vol. 22, No. 1-3, 2021)

The invention of dactylography in the nineteenth century was inextricably linked to the imperial encounter between the British and their colonial subjects in India. Represented as a scientific tech...

This symposium brings together artists, academics and researchers to address the critical potential of digital and lens-based practices, as a means for the exploration of history and ecology in the Mi...

This article examines the way Patrick Keiller’s ‘Robinson’ film trilogy – and in particular the film London – draws on forms, images, and ideas from Victorian literary and visual culture. Like many...

Join Dr. Emma Martin as she explores the intersection of Tibetan social movements and material culture in the Tibet Museum, revealing how the museum's curatorial approach uses non-violent resistance t...

Photography, Value, History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 16-17 June 2025 Where: Hybrid event, Online and at De Montfort University, Leicester. F…