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Photography -- Social aspects

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Photography as a Social Practice

Founded by Eliza Gregory, Mark Strandquist, and Gemma-Rose Turnbull, Photography as a Social Practice "serves as an archive of research and conversations around photography as a social practice." Materials on the site include links to and coverage of allied projects, interviews with practitioners, and original writing on contemporary photography through the lenses of ethics, representation, power...

http://www.asocialpractice.com
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Seeing Science: Photography, Science and Visual Culture

We originally featured this resource in the 8-27-2018 Scout Report, and it remains a fascinating project for those interested in the intersection between photography and science to explore. Seeing Science: Photography, Science and Visual Culture offers readers an exploration of "the central role photographic images play in [...] furthering science and how photographic images made in and about the...

http://seeingscience.umbc.edu/
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Travel Diaries and Scrapbooks of Harrison Forman 1932-1973

The late Harrison Forman was a well-known photojournalist, world traveler, and fellow of the American Geographical Society. During his long career, he focused on places such as the South Pacific, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. He was known as a "modern Marco Polo" and his primary interest was in people and their daily lives. Years after he passed away, his photo collection of about...

https://uwm.edu/lib-collections/forman-diaries/