On ethnographic photography

Abstract

Iconic images, looked at from an anthropological standpoint, offer a vast semantic field to help better understand our cultures. Here we will focus attention on the relationships between photographic images and anthropological knowledge, from their respective origins up to current ideologies. And we will think about some problems that refer specifically to ethnographic photography. This kind of visual communication, that shares the representative character of picture with the symbolic aspect of culture, will be approached from diverse perspectives, concluding with some references to E. S. Curtis' work and the author's own practice.

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