Title: Images of information : still photography in the social sciences /
Authors: Wagner, Jon.; Wagner, Jon C.; Wagner, Jon C.,
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Photography in the social sciences.; Social sciences Research; Social sciences Study and teaching
Contents: Introduction: information in and about photographs /Jon Wagner -- Part I. Research Applications -- Life on the road / Doug Harper -- The beauty ritual / Phyllis Ewen -- A disappearing community / Bill Aron -- Pedestrians and wind / Ervin Zube -- Perceiving a planned community / Jon Wagner -- Family photography / Christopher Muesello -- The early history of visual sociology / Clarice Stasz -- Part II. Issues in Research: When a good social role is worth a thousand photographs / Eugenia Shanklin -- Avoiding error / Jon Wagner -- Evaluating visual data / John Collier -- Part III. Issues in Teaching: Photographic exercises / Timothy J. Curry and Alfred C. Clarke -- Photographs as background, illustration, and data / Jon Wagner -- Student photographic projects / Derral Cheatwood -- Part IV. Teaching Applications: Seeing through photographs: projection and simulation / Raymond Lifchez -- Human/Environment encounters / W. Russell Ellis -- Truth and pictures: "Fetishes," "Goodness," and "Clarity" / Martin H. Krieger -- Part V. Problems and Prospects: Visual sociology / Derral Cheatwood and Clarice Stasz -- Visual anthropology / John Collier -- Photography and social science process / Jon Wagner.