Photography and History: methodological and theoretical issues

• Main Author: Ivo Santos Canabarro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Goiás 2015-06-01
• Series: Visualidades
• Subjects: photography; theory; methodology
• Online Access: http://revistas.ufg.emnuvens.com.br/VISUAL/article/view/33641

This article discusses issues related to the relation of photography with the construction of historical knowledge, realizing the theoretical dimensions that encompass a whole field of study about photography. The use of photography with its theoretical and methodological support in history is very recent, as many historians only used it for writing text illustration. Our hypothesis is that photography can be an object and source of investigation and, at the same time, an object that offers notions of its use as a specific problem in the field of visual culture.