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177 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,875 Photography and Visual Culture papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Ambiguities and inconsistencies in data due to varying cataloguing traditions and practices. Incomplete or inaccurate data that complicates reconciliation. The need to model uncertainty explicitly in entity reconciliation.

    Many-to-many. Usability challenges of entity reconciliation in art history and photographic studies · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of documented processes and policies for reconciling data between cultural institutions. The need to model uncertainty explicitly in entity reconciliation. The complexity of reconciling heterogeneous records across cultural institutions.

    Many-to-many. Usability challenges of entity reconciliation in art history and photographic studies · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the postwar Japanese avant-garde photography movement. The movement is often associated solely with the VIVO or Provoke groups, but other groups and independent photographers also made significant contributions.

    LANDMARKS IN JAPANESE POSTWAR AVANT-GARDE PHOTOGRAPHY · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of the impact of Nordic national borders on the Sámi people. The need to document the lives of Sámi ancestors in Tromsdalen, Norway.

    Borders · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a gap in understanding the lives of individuals in the past, particularly queer subjects. Prior work has focused on iconic photography, but this paper explores quotidian photography.

    Nuanced Archival Triangulation (NAT): An Interdisciplinary Approach for Studying Quotidian Photography · 2026 · DOI

  • Because RPPCs were the catalyst for amateur photographers throughout the United States (Bogdan & Weseloh, 2006), these images could reveal a plethora of underrepresented and under-researched communities through readily available but under-utilized archives.

    Nuanced Archival Triangulation (NAT): An Interdisciplinary Approach for Studying Quotidian Photography · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should continue to study media representation of athletes with disabilities. The study of media coverage of the Paralympics in other countries could provide further insights. The development of more inclusive and diverse media coverage of the Paralympics is needed.

    PHOTO COVERAGE OF THE TOKYO PARALYMPICS IN THE SERBIAN PRESS · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a lack of research on media representation of athletes with disabilities in the Serbian press. The study aims to fill this gap by analyzing photos from the Serbian media during the Tokyo Paralympics.

    PHOTO COVERAGE OF THE TOKYO PARALYMPICS IN THE SERBIAN PRESS · 2026 · DOI

  • The traditional ideas about documenting and transmitting information have undergone significant changes. The role of photography and the archive in preserving memories and forming worldviews needs to be rethought in the light of the digital age.

    Photography as a means of constructing memories of the past and narratives of the future: an interdisciplinary analysis · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should continue to analyze the development of visual culture as an independent field of scholarly interest. Future research should further discuss the theory of visuality and its impact on our understanding of the image. Future research should consider the importance of the myth of the innocent eye and the status and power of representation in the construction of the gaze.

    Mit o nevinom oku i moć reprezentacije pogleda u kulturi · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the understanding of the theory of visuality and its impact on our understanding of the image. The paper identifies a need for further analysis of the expansion of the field of the visual and its combination with anthropological models of scientific research.

    Mit o nevinom oku i moć reprezentacije pogleda u kulturi · 2026 · DOI

  • The rapid industrial changes and the disappearance of industrial structures. The need to balance the preservation of industrial heritage with the demands of sustainable development. The challenge of raising public awareness about the importance of safeguarding industrial heritage.

    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Records of loss · 2026 · DOI

  • The need to recognize and conserve industrial heritage sites. The importance of considering the socio-environmental consequences of industrial decline. The gap in understanding the long-term impact of industry on both local and global environments.

    Bernd and Hilla Becher: Records of loss · 2026 · DOI

  • To establish a comprehensive training system including creation, dissemination, and skills. To find a balance point between technology and humanities in photography teaching.

    Challenges, Responses, and Future Outlook for Photography Education in Higher Education in the Era of Digital Intelligence · 2026 · DOI

  • The current photography teaching process encounters problems from five aspects: teaching philosophy, curriculum design, practical teaching, faculty building, and evaluation methods. The number of photography majors in China is shrinking.

    Challenges, Responses, and Future Outlook for Photography Education in Higher Education in the Era of Digital Intelligence · 2026 · DOI

  • An investigation of how these theoreticians conceived of photography within the ideological and aesthetic boundaries set by cultural authorities is warranted, not least because they addressed theoretical problems that were absent from and irrelevant to discourses about photography in the Capitalist West.

    Snap Judgements: Turning Photography into Art in the Late Soviet Union · 2026 · DOI

  • To explore the application of Bresson's decisive moment and Rodchenko's constructivism in other areas of photography. To investigate the impact of the authors' approach on the sports photography industry.

    THE INFLUENCE OF BRESSON’S DECISIVE MOMENT AND RODCHENKO’S CONSTRUCTIVISM ON SPORTS IMAGES · 2023 · DOI

  • Within the recent scholarship on everyday photography, however, little attention has been paid to the photographic practices of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), one of many marginalized groups whose photography has not been explored.

    Seeing and communicating: photography and young male adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder · 2020 · DOI

  • The case of Solentiname thus serves to open a discussion concerning under-explored cultural alliances within Latin America and beyond, providing a close-up view of localised aesthetic practices seen in relation to transnational solidarity networks, framed by the context of the massive sociopolitical transformations underway during the Cold War.

    War in paradise: Solentiname and the Sandinista revolution · 2015 · DOI

  • That worthwhile objective, however, is defeated by a weak, sometimes misleading historical context; inadequate glosses on a number of the reproductions, often little more than paraphrases of content; and the author’s insufficient research, which weakens the authority of her analysis of the FSA and its photographs.

    To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal by Julia L. Foulkes (review) · 2013 · DOI

  • In particular, Batchen calls attention to the pervasive but remarkably understudied category of photography he describes as “ordinary photographs, the ones made or bought … by everyday folk from 1839 until now, the photographs that preoccupy the home and the heart but rarely the museum or the academy.

    Ordinary Pictures and Accidental Masterpieces: Snapshot Photography in the Modern Art Museum · 2008 · DOI

  • The study of nineteenth‐century practices of building collections of scientific photographs provides the background for a discussion of the significance of picture archives in the history of science, of the historical mechanisms that frame some pictures as “scientific” and others as “unscientific,” and of the need for further research on how scientific images generate meaning.

    The Historian, the Picture, and the Archive · 2006 · DOI

  • Contrary to orthodox historical analysis, the images of Samoa in illustrated magazines and encyclopaedias were not limited to a small repetitive gallery of partially clothed women and costumed chiefs; and the ways in which readers understood Samoa from photographs and text raises questions still to be explored.

    The Imaging of Samoa in Illustrated Magazines and Serial Encyclopaedias in the Early 20th-Century · 2006 · DOI

  • The paper does not provide a comprehensive examination of all aspects of photographic and videotape evidence. The discussion is limited to the admissibility of such evidence in criminal trials.

    Admissibility of Photographic and Videotape Evidence · 1987 · DOI

  • Future research could examine the application of the rules governing the admission of photographic and videotape evidence in different jurisdictions. Future research could also explore the impact of technological advancements on the admissibility of such evidence.

    Admissibility of Photographic and Videotape Evidence · 1987 · DOI

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