A Brief History of Punk
While there is no official epicenter for the punk roots, punk began with the simultaneous rejection of both "hippy" and political culture in the 1960's. The music of the punk era is generally what best remembered and memorialized of the movement, but Punk aesthetic quickly emerged alongside music as a means to tangibly reject typical culture. From there, even more categories of punk aesthetic spread, based on an individual's values: heavily diversified styles like glam punk or even Stuckism have been expressed since then.
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Both American and European punk, to date the most popular varieties, expressed their attitudes against different things, ex.Germany vs the war, but both directly integrated their anti-establishment values through their dress, art, and visual expression.
The punk lens relates to visual culture because it follows the same methods of creation, idea formation, and modes of expression as visual culture. Punk aesthetic through clothing, advertisement, and expression shape ideas and perspective of those who subscribe to this counterculture. And (speaking in generalities) punk aesthetic creates and responds to art in order to shape their practices of looking. What else will punk aesthetic respond to in the future?