Floating Island: Photography and Visual Culture Studies

"Floating Island: Research on Photography and Visual Culture" is an independent journal published from time to time. Each issue conducts in-depth exploration and divergent discussions on new trends in contemporary photography history and theory. The first issue is based on the perspective of contemporary Chinese photography. It took 7 years of preparation and includes papers and critical works completed by 11 scholars and researchers from China and Europe in recent years.

This journal is divided into four parts: "Special Writing", "Theory and Criticism", "Perspectives and Methods" and "Book Reviews". Among them, "Special Writing" focuses on the context and trends of the diverse practice of contemporary photography in China; "Theory and Criticism" focuses on the cutting-edge theoretical trends and critical writing of photography and visual culture; in "Viewpoints and Methods", the authors respectively analyze images and landscapes. , memory and the Internet; the "Book Review" section invites young writers Hu Hao, Huang Guaier and Wang Runzhong to discuss Mr. Wu Hung's photography monograph "Focus: Photography in China" and Marvin Hefman respectively A detailed review of "Photography Changes Everything" by Marvin Heiferman, leading us into the above two books from a broader context.

"Floating Island" emphasizes the overall relationship between photography and visual culture, sociology, anthropology, aesthetics, philosophy and other humanities disciplines. It focuses on the forward-looking topics in current Western photography research and is dedicated to photography history, theoretical scholars and photography critics. Provide a platform for diverse texts and academic discussions. At the same time, we try to connect the issues existing in the history and contemporary context of Chinese photography with the latest photography research directions in the West through a series of academic articles based on the history and theoretical research of Chinese and Western photography, so as to generate critical and cross-cultural research. The dialogue between disciplines attempts to provide a new discourse for the field of contemporary Chinese photography history and theoretical research.