This essay reviews recent anthropological literature relating to the analytical use of ethnohistorical photographs. It looks at some of the philosophical issues involved in studying photographs as documents and demonstrates the need to analyze a body of related and contextualized photographs in the triadic relationship of photographer/ subject/viewer.
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Joanna Cohan Scherer (1990) studied this question.
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