“Photographers learn to interpret photographs in that technical way because they want to understand and use that ‘language’ themselves (just as musicians learn a more technical musical language than the layman needs). Social scientists who want to work with visual materials will have to learn to approach them in this more studious and time-consuming way”
Becker (1978) cited in: Peter Hamilton (2006) Visual Research Methods'. Volume 1. p. 214.
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