International Summer School in Visual Sociology

VISUAL SOCIOLOGY SUGGESTED READING

PDF DOCUMENTS ABOUT VISUAL SOCIOLOGY

 

APPLYING VISUAL RESEARCH: PATIENTS TEACHING PHYSICIANS
THROUGH VISUAL ILLNESS NARRATIVES

Richard Chalfen, Ph.D.and Michael Rich, M.D., M.P.H.

BECOMING A VISUAL SOCIOLOGIST
John Grady -Weaton College (MA)

VISUAL SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RESEARCH
AT THE HE CROSSROADS

John Grady -Weaton College (MA)

BLACK IMAGES FROM LIFE MAGAZINE
John Grady -Weaton College (MA)

GROUNDING VISUAL SOCIOLOGY RESEARCH IN SHOOTING SCRIPTS
Charles S. Suchar

VISUAL METHODS AND THE VISUAL CULTURE OF SCHOOLS
Jon Prosser

PHOTOGRAPHY AND SOCIOLOGY
Howard s. Becker - North Western University

 


A LIST OF AUTHORS AND BOOKS SUGGESTED BY THE FULL TIME FACULTY TEAM

 

Banks, M.
2001. Visual Methods in Social Research. London: Sage.

Banks, M. & Morphy, H.
1997). Rethinking Visual Anthropology. London: New Haven Press.

Becker, H.
1974. “Photography and Sociology”, Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication. 1: 3-26.
1995. “Visual Sociology, Documentary Photography and Photojournalism: it’s (Almost) All a Matter of Context”, Visual Sociology 10(1-2): 5-14.

Chalfen, R.        
1987. Snapshoot Versions of Life.  Bowling Green, OH: The Popular Press (Italian edition: Sorrida, prego. La costruzione visuale della vita quotidiana. Milano: FrancoAngeli 1997)
1997. Through Navajo Eyes--An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. (revised 2nd edition) Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press (with John Adair and Sol Worth).
1998. “Interpreting Family Photography as Pictorial Communication” in J. Prosser (ed) Image-based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers. London: Falmer Press: 214-234.
1999. “Showing and Telling Asthma: Children Teaching Physicians with Visual Narratives”.  Visual Sociology 14: 51-71 (with Michael Rich).

Collier, J. & Collier, M.
1986. Visual Anthropology. Photography as a Research Method. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Emmison, M. & Smith, P.
2000. Researching the Visual. London: Sage.

Evans, J. & Hall, S. (eds.)
1999. Visual Culture: the Reader. London: Sage.

Faccioli, P.
2001 (ed). In altre parole. Idee per una sociologia della comunicazione visuale. Milano: FrancoAngeli.
2007 (ed). Framing Globalization: Visual perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (with J.A. Gibbons).

Faccioli, P. & Losacco, G.
2003. Manuale di sociologia visuale. Milano: FrancoAngeli.
2008. Identità in movimento. Percorsi tra le dimensioni visuali della globalizzazione. Milano: FrancoAngeli.

Grady, J.
1996. “The Scope of Visual Sociology”. Visual Sociology 11 (2): 10-24 (Italian edition: “Le potenzialità della sociologia visuale” in P. Faccioli e D. Harper (eds), Mondi da vedere. Milano: FrancoAngeli 1999: 491-524.
2001.”Becoming a Visual Sociologist”. Sociological Imagination 38 (2-3): 83-119 (Italian edition : “Come si diventa sociologi visuali”, in P. Faccioli (ed), In altre parole, Milano: FrancoAngeli 2001: 253-283)
2006."Edward Tufte and the Promise of a Visual Social Science", in Luc Pauwels (ed) Visual Cultures of Science. University Press of New England: Hanover: 222-265.
2007. “Advertising images as social indicators: depictions of blacks in LIFE magazine, 1936-2000”. Visual Studies 22 (1): 211-239.

Harper, D.
1982. Good Company. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Italian edition: Good Company. Un sociologo tra i vagabondi. Milano: FrancoAngeli 1999).
2002. “Talking About Pictures: A case for Photo-elicitation,” Visual Studies 17 (1): 13-26.

Losacco, G.
2003. Wop o Mangiacake, Consumi e identità etnica: la negoziazione dell’italianità a Toronto. Milano: FrancoAngeli.
2007. “Sociologie visuelle digitale”, Sociétés 95 (1) : 53-64.
2008. “Net Logic Video Editing”. Ethnopolis 1: 72-77.

Marazzi, A.
1999. “Visual Anthropology in a World of Images”, Visual Anthropology 12: 391-403.
2002. Antropologia della visione. Roma: Carocci.
2003. “An Anthropological View on Vision”, Diogenes 50 (3): 89-98.

Mattioli, F.
1991. Sociologia visuale. Roma: ERI.
2007. La sociologia visuale: che cos’è e come si fa. Roma: Bonanno.

Pink, S.
2001. Doing Visual Ethnography. London: Sage.
2008. Visual Interventions.  Oxford & New York: Berghan Books.

Prosser, J.
1998. Image-based Research: A Sourcebook for Qualitative Researchers, London: Falmer Press Ltd.

Rose, G.
2001. Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Methods.  London: Sage.

Suchar, C.
1997. “Grounding Visual Sociology Research in Shooting Scripts”, Qualitative Sociology 20 (1): 33-55.

Wagner, J.
1979 (ed.). Images of Information. Beverly Hills/ London: Sage Publications.
2001. “Contrasting Images, Complementary Trajectories: Sociology, Visual Sociology and Visual Research”, Visual Studies 17 (2): 160-171.

van Leeuween, T. e Jewitt, C. (eds.)
2001. Handbook of Visual Analysis. London: Sage.

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