Tong Xiao

From the Darkroom to the Algorithm: A Critical Review of Creative Concepts in Post-photographic Image Engineering

Tong Xiao · Journal of Engineering Research and Reports · 2026

Photographic practice has been reorganised twice within a single generation. The first reorganisation replaced chemical development with electronic sensing and file-based editing; the second replaced single-exposure capture with multi-frame estimation, learned reconstruction and,...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/jerr/2026/v28i81982

The Game of Watching: Commercial Photography, Visual Rhetoric and the Boundary Conditions of Non-conscious Consumption

Tong Xiao · Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences · 2026

Commercial photography is often treated either as a transparent record of products and lifestyles or as a stimulus that bypasses reflective judgement. Both positions are inadequate. The persuasive force of a commercial photograph depends on a structured encounter in which image-m...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/arjass/2026/v24i8928