Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism
It's (almost) all a matter of context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5777775 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Howard S Becker (University of Washington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 5-14 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-1684 • E-ISSN: 2331-3811 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14725869508583745 |
| OpenAlex | W2085260988 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 123 |
| References cited | 12 |
Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism are social constructions whose meaning arises in the contexts, organizational and historical, of different worlds of photographic work. Rereading photographs made in one genre as though they had been made in another illustrates this contextuality of meaning
Documentary film · Photojournalism · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
Carnival in Tijuana
Value in the Visual
Visual data in applied qualitative research
Doing boy/girl' and global/local elements in 10-12 year olds' drawings and written texts
The Politics of Representation
Afterword
Visual Research Ethics at the Crossroads1
The Politics of Representation
Photo-elicitation
Representing the unrepresentable. An interpretative study of Ukraine war photojournalism
Visual Methodology in Classroom Inquiry
Fotografia socjologiczna – w kierunku reportażu dialogicznego
Who Is Worthy of a Name? Identity, Naming, and Social Difference in News Images’ Captions
Journalism’s visual construction of place in environmental coverage
In welcher Soziologie arbeiten (und leben) wir? Eine Einladung
A la luz de la propia sombra. Incorporaciones de la fotografía a la sociología
Sociedad y educación en la posguerra (1939-1953). Una mirada desde las imágenes de las memorias de prácticas de los primeros pedagogos instruidos en el franquismo
Social Behavior in Public Spaces in a College Town
Photovoice as a platform for empowerment of women with disability
Documentalismo humanista y realismo mágico en la fotografía en Transtempo de Cristina García Rodero
Enhancing visual literacy through interpretation of photo-genres
Picture This
Digital Photography and Research Relationships
Using qualitative methods to elicit young people's perspectives on their environments
Seeing Like a Sociologist
A deeper picture
Capter, transformer, mentir, agir. Quatre jalons d’un cheminement avec le film ethnographique
The photo‐survey research method
Through city students' eyes
Looking at Japanese society
Tidepools
The embedded landscape of gentrification
The doorstep portrait
Masks and emotional distance
A Confessional Representation of Ethnographic Fieldwork in an Academy Sport Setting
A little ‘light work’? Children's images of their labour
Seeing the way
Material Practices of Ethnographic Presence
Thinking through the Photo Essay
Bibliographie générale
A Review of Participant-Generated Image Methods in the Social Sciences
Documenting Acts of Cruelty
Retracted
Conceptualizing an Interdisciplinary Collective Impact Approach to Examine and Intervene in the Chronic Cycle of Homelessness
Visual data in addictions research
The missing picture’
Mapping the Walk of Shame
Aestheticizing suffering
Worth a Thousand Words
Photojournalism
Death, doubt, truth and charisma
Ethnography 2.0
Constructionism and the Textuality of Social Problems
Body, Possibility and Biographical Interpretation
Investigating the restorative potential of women’s home environments
Watching the Watchers
Observing the Observers
The politics of (in)visibility
Contrasting (power of) visual and textual discourses in art studies
Tales of treatment and new perspectives for global health research on antimicrobial resistance
Vision of a New State
Visualizing risk
Globalization, Individualization and Gender in Adolescents’ Texts
Using photography to understand change and continuity in the history of residential care for older people
Capturando la ciudad
Alle origini della sociologia visuale
What constitutes an image‐based qualitative methodology
Space and place in an Urban Landscape
Social change at bike week
Innovative Data Collection Strategies in Qualitative Research
Radical exclusions, empty signifiers and an anti-war genre
Understanding Place Meanings on the Bitterroot National Forest, Montana
Using volunteer-employed photography to inform tourism planning decisions
Where Is the Global City?’ Visual Narratives of London among East European Migrants
A Photo Elicitation Study of the Meanings of Outdoor Adventure Experiences
Revisiting Southam Street
Visual Methodology in Migration Studies
Images of Recovery
Amateur Photographs as Visual Quotes
Aesthetics of protest
The Work Kids Do
La fotografía industrial y el archivo de empresa en la siderurgia del Puerto de Sagunto
Digital Sociology
The Politics of Documentary Photography
Visual sociology between tradition and new frontiers of research
Urban vernacular landscapes
Entre el neocolonialismo y la deshumanización
Techno-aesthetic gendered bicycle-cyclist assemblages in Brussels
Just Images
Towards an Articulation of the Material and Visual Turn in Organization Studies
Using Visual Storytelling to Design Solutions-Based Approaches to Homelessness
Design Ethnography
Illuminating urban street (u)topias
Interacting with the dead
Fontes visuais, cultura visual, história visual
De la sociologie dessinée à l'utilité de la sociologie
The Surprising Detritus of Leisure
The social definition of time for university students
The rules of a middle-brow art
The role of photography in the production and problematization of online affective debates
| Unique citing works | 123 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,1 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 118 |