1st Edition
Photography as Social Transformation How the Idea of Change Helps Us to Understand the Taking, Sharing, and Debating of Images
Introduction 1; PART I: Photography as a Network 1 Photography and Networking; 2 Photographic Transformation; 3 How to Study Photographic Transformations? PART II: Forms of Photographic Transformations 4 Taking Photos; 5 Making Visible; 6 Mobilising the Network; 7 Deliberating on Photography
8 Regulating Photos and Their Circulation; 9 Other Uses of Photos
Biography
Maciej Frąckowiak, PhD in sociology, is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. His publications and research projects lie at the intersection of visual studies, public spaces, everyday practices, and the sociology of creative professions and activism. A believer in public sociology, he collaborates with local government institutions, non-governmental organisations, and professionals from the cultural sector. Currently he is researching the ideas and practices of collaboration within Polish photography groups, and developing methodologies for post-photographic studies in the social sciences.
