The everyday practice of photography by millions of amateur
photographers may seem to be a spontaneous and highly personal
activity. But France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist
Pierre Bourdieu and his research associates show that few cultural
activities are more structural and systematic than photography.
This perceptive and wide-ranging analysis of the practice of
photography reveals the logic implicit in this cultural field. For
some social groups, photography is primarily a means of preserving
the present and reproducing moments of collective celebration,
whereas for other groups it is the occasion of an aesthetic
judgment in which photographs are endowed with the dignity of works
of art. Bourdieu and his associates examine the socially
differentiated forms of photographic practice by drawing on the
results of surveys and interviews and by analyzing the attitudes
and characteristics of both amateur and professional photographers.
First published n 1965, Photography provides an excellent
opportunity to observe key parts of Bourdieu's theories at a
formative stage. Ideas that will become central to his thought-the
habitus, the structuring of taste by class position, people's use
of taste to distinguish themselves from the classes to which they
are adjacent, and the internalization of objective
probabilities-make an early appearance here. It is the first study
to integrate survey research and anthropological observation in the
manner for which Bourdieu has become justly renowned.
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