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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 · This paper presents a theoretical and methodological approach to analysing images in public space as part of a transformative visual dialogue in everyday life. Images are conceptualised through...
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 · Realist materialism is ambivalently embroiled with aesthetic social forms. The photography of Edith Tudor Hart (née Suschitzky, 1908–1973) was influenced both by Bauhaus and the Austrian worker-photographic schools, and informed by a realist aesthetic and politics of class, exile and gender.
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.
In this article, I review scholarship in linguistic anthropology on prototypic images to show how these advances (e.g., entextualization, performativity, perspective, and enregisterment) can be leveraged to theorize images more generally.
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?
