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A Phenomenological Utilization of Photographs

A Phenomenological Utilization of Photographs 172 A PHENOMENOLOGICAL UTILIZATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS Robert C. Ziller and Dale E. Smith The use of photography as an approach to phenomenological psychology is described here along with a series of three demonstrations. In this approach, the perceiver is perceived through photographs by the perceiver not o_ f the perceiver. It is proposed that the photographs are images of the photographer's information processing and traces of his interaction with the physical and social environment. Speigelberg (1970) distinguishes 6 stages in the phenomenological method: (1) direct analysis of particular phenomena aiming at maximum intuitive presentation; (2) probing these phenomena for typical structures; (3) giving at- tention to the ways such phenomena appear; (4) studying the processes in which such phenomena become constituted; (5) suspending belief in the reality of the phenomena; (6) phenomenological interpretation to unveil otherwise concealed meaning. In these stages, description precedes analysis (Merleau- Ponty, 1962). A central concern of phenomenological psychology is the meaning of experience which can be reduced to invariable structures. Giorgi (1970) proposes that the prime motivating factor of phenomenological psychology is the concern for un- derstanding uniquely human phenomena in a valid way. 173 The phenomenological approach is presented here extended to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Brill

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Brill
Copyright
© 1977 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0047-2662
eISSN
1569-1624
DOI
10.1163/156916277X00042
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Abstract

172 A PHENOMENOLOGICAL UTILIZATION OF PHOTOGRAPHS Robert C. Ziller and Dale E. Smith The use of photography as an approach to phenomenological psychology is described here along with a series of three demonstrations. In this approach, the perceiver is perceived through photographs by the perceiver not o_ f the perceiver. It is proposed that the photographs are images of the photographer's information processing and traces of his interaction with the physical and social environment. Speigelberg (1970) distinguishes 6 stages in the phenomenological method: (1) direct analysis of particular phenomena aiming at maximum intuitive presentation; (2) probing these phenomena for typical structures; (3) giving at- tention to the ways such phenomena appear; (4) studying the processes in which such phenomena become constituted; (5) suspending belief in the reality of the phenomena; (6) phenomenological interpretation to unveil otherwise concealed meaning. In these stages, description precedes analysis (Merleau- Ponty, 1962). A central concern of phenomenological psychology is the meaning of experience which can be reduced to invariable structures. Giorgi (1970) proposes that the prime motivating factor of phenomenological psychology is the concern for un- derstanding uniquely human phenomena in a valid way. 173 The phenomenological approach is presented here extended to

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Journal of Phenomenological PsychologyBrill

Published: Jan 1, 1977

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