1st Edition
Interpreting Visual Ethnography Texts, Photos and the Construction of Sociological Meanings
By Erkan Ali
Copyright 2018
204 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
204 Pages
21 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Focusing on the use of text in relation to a specific category of image - the photographic image - this book argues for a new appreciation of the relationship between texts and photographs in an age that seems to be dominated by visual images. With reference to a range of traditional and new media forms, and addressing such issues as gender, ethnicity, class, identity politics and biography, the... Read more
Preface
Introduction
1. Lamination
2. Text vs. Photo? Agee, Evans and Lamination
3. Photo-Memory-Palimpsest: Lamination and Family Photographs
4. Beating the Street: Race and Visual Ethnography in the American City
5. Don’t Look Now! Photojournalism, "Uncomfortable Pictures" and Lamination
6. Digital Materialities: Lamination and New Media
7. Conclusion
References
Index
Biography
Erkan Ali received his PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in June 2013. His research interests are in visual sociology, as well as traditional and contemporary social theory. He is currently Lecturer of English Language and Literature at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in China.
