Howard S. Becker Quote

Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves (just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs). Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way


Becker (1978) cited in: Peter Hamilton (2006) Visual Research Methods'. Volume 1. p. 214.


Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves (just as...

Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves (just as...

Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves (just as...

Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that 'language' themselves (just as...