Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes By "visual essay" I mean to include in one term both the photo essay and documentary film. It seems a servicable term and is used in this way by Leonard Henny in his editorial for the International Journal of Visual Sociology (Arnold and Henny, 1983: 5). Although the focus of my essay is on what Harper (1987a) terms "the visual ethnographic narrative," I prefer the looser category of "essay."
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