Photography, Anthropology and History examines the complex historical relationship between photography and anthropology, and in particular the strong emergence

Photography and anthropology share strikingly parallel histories. Christopher Pinney's provocative and eminently readable account provides a polemical narrative

Traces the use of photography in British anthropological expeditions, and discusses the photograph as document

Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how approaching ant

A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the body In this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new a