SociologyArt

H. Becker

1995Visual Studies

DOI: 10.1080/14725869508583745

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Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism's meanings arise from their contexts, illustrating contextuality of meaning.

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.

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BECKER, H. Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context. Visual Studies, 1995, 10: 5–14.