Digital Photography and Research Relationships

Capturing the Fashion Moment

Bibliographic Data

ID2321836
AuthorsSophie Woodward (0000-0001-5339-8153, Nottingham Trent University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume42
Issue5
Pages857-872
Publication date2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038508094566
OpenAlexW1984106005
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited16

This article focuses on the interactions produced by the use of the digital camera in a mass observation into everyday fashions in Nottingham. The research project includes a team of researchers, and so there is no single research relationship. Therefore this article uses the mass observation, which includes photographs and interviews with in excess of 800 participants, to highlight the complexities of the research relationship. The definition of this relationship is widened out to include the interactions between researcher and participant, the relationship participants have to each other, and the relationship they have to themselves.The digital camera is seen as a site of negotiation between researchers and participants; in turn, the research relationship is redefined as a web of interactions which are mediated by the camera and the photographic images

Art · Digital camera · Negotiation · Participant observation · Photography · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology

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