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| "Photography
and sociology have approximately the same birth date, if you count sociology's
birth as the publication of Comte's work which gave it its name, and photography's
birth as the date in 1839 when Daguerre made public his method for fixing
an image on a metal plate. Like sociologists, photographers have been
concerned, in their professional lives, with contemporary social problems:
immigration, poverty, racism, social unrest. Both have studied occupations
and related institutions of work social classes, communities, cities,
societies, and cultures. From its beginnings, photography has been used
as a tool for the exploration of society, and photographers have taken
that as one of their tasks. Among its several uses, photography has been
a tool to explore society, thereby entering upon common ground with sociology."
- Howard Becker, Northwestern University |
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