VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ROMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ROMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: Visual anthropology is a sub-field of social anthropology which deals with not only the study and production of ethnographic photography, but also, starting with the 90’s, of the other mediums. These last years, visual anthropology has started being used also by researchers in the fields of visual cultures and science history. Although it has often been confused for ethnographic film, visual anthropology contains much more, including the anthropological study of all visual representations, such as dance or other types of performance, museum archives, all visual arts, as well as mass-media. The stories and analyses of representations from a multitude of cultures are part of visual anthropology – research topics include sand paintings, tattoos, sculptures and embossings, cave paintings, engravings, jewellery, hieroglyphs, paintings or photographs. Photography has not only a documentary or testimonial value, it also constitutes a research instrument for visual anthropology.

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