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20 lut 2020 · Images are conceptualised through the lens of sociocultural psychology and analytically approached through the metaphor of ‘the social life of images,’ by which the life cycle of images is followed as they respond and borrow from one another in a continuous dialogue.
20 lut 2020 · Images are conceptualised through the lens of sociocultural psychology and analytically approached through the metaphor of ‘the social life of images,’ by which the life cycle of images is...
9 maj 2019 · Sociological ethnography has thus developed a prominent and intimate understanding of social life. On entering the field, researchers set up their toolboxes; most of the time comprising pens, notebooks, recorders, batteries, and photographic equipment.
The social life of an image approach builds on a conception of images as constructed and transformative representations of our ideas, our relationships, and ourselves. They are tools that travel, transform, and constantly change meaning and shape over space and time. Ascribing a social life to images does not assume that they are actors in ...
11 maj 2020 · Thus, the social realist cult of coldness belied both its aesthetic and the utopian criticism implied in images of inequity and poverty. The ambiguity of the photograph can be read as capturing Simmel’s unavoidable ambiguity of social life, into which it potentially offers rich insights.
This entry examines the work anthropologists have done on, and with, photography. It surveys the conclusions anthropologists have reached about the social and cultural impacts of photography and discusses the multimodal experiments that define the use of photography in anthropology today.
What is the axiomatic relationship between photography and anthropology historically, and what kind of anxieties are embedded in this relationship, which might explain contemporary social anthropology’s seeming fear of photography?
