Photographs can offer insights into the
structure and content of human communication, for they illustrate how people
frame reality when translating it into a
static mode for particular purposes. To
continue to ignore photographs as resources for communication research in
favor of modes of communication which
appear more amenable to our understanding and which have established
methods of analysis is to ignore the im
pact of what we see on how we think.
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