a bibliography of community photography
This bibliography assumes a broad definition of community photography. Also known as community-based photography, the practices are fundamentally characterized by a close collaboration with the subjects depicted. In some cases, this simply describes a secondary stage of research in which research participants comment on photographs taken of themselves or situations with which they are familiar (photo elicitation, for example)—in others, it describes a process in which the participants themselves are responsible for photographic production in stages ranging from picture taking, printing, publication, and distribution. The outcomes of such activity are intended to range from ehnographic data gathering to political emancipation.
With the intent of a fusion of ideas, techniques, and influences, this bibliography incorporates such wide-ranging concepts as photovoice, critical pedagogy, and equally wide-ranging practitioners and theorists as Deborah Barndt, Paolo Freire, and Darren Newbury, and Caroline Wang.
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- Augaitis, Daina, Lorne Falk, Sylvie Gilbert, and Mary Anne Moser,
eds. Questions
of Community: Artists, Audiences, Coalitions. Banff: Banff Centre
Press, 1995.
- Barndt, Deborah. Education and Social Change: A Photographic Study
of Peru. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1980.
- Bateson, Gregory and Margaret Mead. Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis. New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1942.
- Berger, John et al. Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking Press, 1973.
- Berger, John and Jean Mohr. A Seventh Man: A Book of Images and Words About the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe. Baltimore: Penguin; Harmondsworth, 1975.
- Beveridge, Karl and Carole Condé. “Telling Stories:
Some Thoughts on Art and the Labour Movement.” In Questions
of Community: Artists, Audiences, Coalitions. Daina Augaitis, Lorne
Falk, Sylvie Gilbert, and Mary Anne Moser, eds. Banff: Banff Centre
Press, 1995.
- Braden, Su. Committing Photography. London: Pluto Press, 1983.
- Brake, Jane. Changing Images: Photography, Education, and Young People. Salford: Viewpoint Photography Gallery, 1995.
- Bunster B., Ximena. "Talking pictures: a study of proletarian mothers in Lima, Peru," Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 5.1 (Fall 1978): 37-55.
- Burns, Leah. "Lingering, Linking and Layering," in Provoked
by Art. Ardra Cole, ed. Halifax: Backalong Books, 2004.
- Cole, Ardra, ed. Provoked by Art: Theorizing Arts-Informed
Research. Halifax: Backalong Books, 2004.
- DeCarava, Roy and Langston Hughes. Sweet Flypaper of Life. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.
- De Cuyper, Sheila. "On the future of photographic representation in anthropology: lessons from the practice of community photography in Britain," Visual Anthropology Review 13.2 (Fall-Winter 1997-98): 2-18.
- Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy in Process: The Letters to Guinea-Bissau. New York: Continuum, 1983.
- ———. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 1970.
- Fuirer, Michèle, ed. Whose Image?: Anti-Racist Approaches to Photography and Visual Literacy. Birmingham: Building Sights, 1989.
- Griffiths, Philip Jones. Vietnam Inc. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
- Harper, Douglas. "Talking about pictures: a case for photo elicitation," Visual Studies 17.1 (2002): 13-26.
- Newbury, Darren. "Documentary practices and working-class culture: an interview with Murray Martin (Amber films and Side photographic gallery)," Visual Studies 17.2 (October 2002): 113-128.
- ———. "Photography and the visualization of working class lives in Britain," Visual Anthropology Review 15.1 (Spring/Summer 1999): 21-44.
- ———. "Reconstructing the self: photography, education and disability," Disability and Society 11.3 (1996): 349-360.
- Smith, W. Eugene and Aileen Mioko Smith. Minimata. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975.
- Wang, Caroline and Yanique A. Redwood-Jones. "Photovoice ethics: perspectives from Flint photovoice," Health Education & Behavior 28.5 (October 2001): 560-572.
- Wang, Caroline, et al. "Photovoice as a participatory health promotion strategy," Health Promotion International 13.1 (1998): 75-86.
- Worth, Sol and John Adair. Through Navajo Eyes: An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana U. Press, 1972.
- Wu, Kun Yi, et al. (eds.). Visual Voices, 100 Photographs of Village China by the Women of Yunnan Province. Kunming: Yunnan min zu chu ban she, 1995.