Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Visual Sociology
- Vol. 10 (1-2) , 5-14
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14725869508583745
Abstract
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.Keywords
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