Photography and anthropology share strikingly parallel histories. Christopher Pinney's provocative and eminently readable account provides a polemical narrative

Photography, Anthropology and History examines the complex historical relationship between photography and anthropology, and in particular the strong emergence

Traces the use of photography in British anthropological expeditions, and discusses the photograph as document

A wedding couple gazes resolutely at viewers from the wings of a butterfly; a portrait surrounded by rose petals commemorates a recently deceased boy. These qui

Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how approaching ant