Book Reviews : Images of Information: Still Photography in the Social Sciences. Jon Wagner, ed. (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1979) 311 pp
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Book ReviewsImages of Information: Still Photography in the Social Sciences. Jon Wagner, ed. (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1979) 311 pp SAGE Publications, Inc.1981DOI: 10.1177/107554708100300212 Barbara Rosenblum San Francisco Graduate Program Goddard College What shall the marriage of photography and social science look like? What purposes should it serve? Whom should it serve? What criteria should be applied to evaluate the utility and the effectiveness of the imagery? What vocabularies can we invent or borrow to discuss the offspring of this marriage? These are some of the questions that many social scientists have been asking, and the search for answers has become increasingly vigorous during the last eight years, during what seems to have become a revival of photography in the social sciences. Images of Information: Still Photography in the Social Sciences is an attempt to provide answers to some of these questions in a systematic and self-conscious way. As always, many other interesting issues and questions emerge concerning ethics, methods, technology, and history. What follows is a lengthy description of the pieces contained in this anthology and then an overall assessment of the book. Images of Information is a collection of twenty pieces about photography and social