Photography as Geographical Fieldwork
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Geography in Higher Education
- Vol. 26 (1) , 95-103
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03098260120110395
Abstract
Photography has a long history in geographical fieldwork. This paper reports on a student project that recovers this history and uses photography and commentary to represent the city of Barcelona. The place of the project within the broader (second-year undergraduate) fieldcourse and curriculum is described. The paper concludes with considerations of the way that photography lends itself to raise issues of representation evident in contemporary human geography. Since it is accessible to students, and offers practical examples, photography is a good way to approach and introduce more complex questions of method, epistemology and representation.Keywords
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