The Photograph in Theory

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ID2643365
AutoresElizabeth Chaplin (The Open University, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume10
Fascículo1
Páginas141-177
Data de publicação2005-06-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5153/sro.964
OpenAlexW2071717748
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas3

This article gives an account of an ethnographic project which relied on the use of photography: the project involved taking photographs, asking for responses to them, and then analysing both photos and responses. Anything that plays a central role in an ethnographic project requires theoretical consideration. So, as the account of the project proceeds, the photos are considered from different theoretical viewpoints; and an emerging and subsequently recurring theme is the tension between what a photo shows and what a photo means. Discussion of this tension develops into a more general critique of the ways photos are theorised in social science. I conclude that the photograph in social science theory is at present a sad phenomenon, and that in order to remedy this situation, we should seek help from outside social science

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Media studies · Phenomenon · Photography · Sociology · Viewpoints · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy

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