Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of contex

by Howard S. Becker

This is an interesting academic paper. Take a look at the abstract and decide if it is your kind of reading.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725869508583745

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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