Anthropology › Section O · Anthropology of media › Topic O.4
Photography, representation, and memory
A photograph seems simply to show what was there. Anthropologists ask who took it, for whom, and why, because photographs shape how people see others, how they present themselves, and what they remember.
In this topic
- Pictures that teach ways of seeing
- Reading National Geographic
- A magazine looks back
- The gaze
- The male gaze and its critics
- The imperial gaze
- Worked example: missionary photographs
- Studio portraits and self-fashioning
- Photographs and memory
- Worked example: returning photographs
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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