Visual Culture Blog

The Visual Culture Blog is published by the photographer and researcher in visual culture Marco Bohr. As he reached the finishing line of a theory based PhD on Japanese photography of the 1990s, Marco began the Visual Culture Blog in October 2010 to vent some ideas that didn’t fit into the thesis. Born and raised in Germany, studying photography in Canada, living in Japan, and continuing postgraduate studies in the UK, he hopes to bring an international perspective to the study of visual culture(s). Marco completed a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University before his appointment as Lecturer in Visual Communication at Loughborough University.

Email: marcus.bohr (at) network.rca.ac.uk

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Selected Publications:

2013 ‘Photography and Metaphors’. In: James Elkins (ed.), The Contemporary Visual Studies Reader. London: Routledge.

2013 ‘Nordkurve’. In: Michelle Langford (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Germany Vol. 2. London: Intellect.

2013 ‘From Provoke to Girl Photography: Anti-Perfectionism in Japanese Photography’. In: Alfredo Cramerotti (ed.), A Symposium on Perfection (Title to be confirmed). London: Intellect.

2013 ‘The films of Jun Ichikawa.’ In: John Berra (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Japan Vol. 3. London: Intellect.

2012 ‘Prinzessinnenbad.’ In: Susan Ingram (ed.), World Film Locations: Berlin. London: Intellect.

2012 ‘The Collapse of Ideology in Peter Kahane’s The Architects’. In: Hannu Salmi (ed.), Frontiers of Screen History: Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945–2010. London: Intellect.

2012 ‘Koyaanisqatsi’. In: Marcelline Block (ed.), World Film Locations: Las Vegas. London: Intellect.

2012 ‘ Cultural Crossover: Japanese Cinema and Photography’. In: John Berra (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: Japan Vol. 2. London: Intellect, pp. 33-35.

2011 ‘Inception’. In: Marcelline Block (ed.), World Film Locations: Paris. London: Intellect.

2011 ‘Are-Bure-Boke: Distortions in late 1960s Japanese Cinema and Photography’. Dandelion, London, Vol. 2, No. 2.

2011 ‘Photography and the Dear Leader’. In: Pascale Giffard (ed.), From Here On … Arles: Rencontres d’Arles.

2011 ‘The Many Bodies of Yurie Nagashima’. In: Elizabeth Johnson (ed.), Modernity Stripped Bare: Undressing the Nude in Contemporary Japanese Photography. The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland.