[ caption ]: the journal of visual cultural studies emerges from the collision of theory and spectacle. Annual, audacious, and gloriously hybrid, it stages encounters between scholarship and image-making—where Arbus’s restless gaze, Basquiat’s eloquent canvas-borne utterances, meet the ghosts of Benjamin, Mulvey, Berger, Sontag, and Stuart Hall.
A publication as alive as the media it studies, [ caption ] invites artists, critics, and cultural troublemakers to think with their eyes: to dissect cinema, architecture, photography, fashion, design, and the ever-mutating semiotics of the silver screen.
Part gallery, part think tank, part cultural séance, [ caption ] insists that looking is never innocent, that every image is an argument, every theory a pose. Imagine a magazine/journal that blends the look of Warhol’s Interview Magazine, the smarts of the journal Camera Obscura, the visual cultural studies amazingness of John Berger et al’s Ways of Seeing, of Marshall McLuhan’s and Quentin Fiore’s The Medium is the Massage. Oversized, loud, bold, and unapologetic, [ caption ] is where vision becomes discourse, and discourse dares to look back.
Close your eyes and think of a journal-magazine/chimera that fuses DNA from Camera Obscura, the old Lingua Franca, Interview Magazine, the long lost Life Magazine, Ray-Gun, and more! All that is [ caption ].
First Analog Issue, June 1, 2026; Digital Issue, NOW, here, alive, evolving-before-your-eyes, and forthcoming, analog.
[ caption ] 1, call for papers/photography/art etc is NOW LIVE!
