Photography in visual sociology by Piotr Sztompka

Photography is considered a rather visual method of visual sociology. Note that photography forces us to represent the image as it was actually displayed in the resulting image. In the imagination, this object is already beginning to exist. An anthropological tract appears, which is present between the subject and the object of study. Everything that was captured in the photograph becomes reality and everything is imaginable. The anthropological path makes it possible to obtain a certain imaginary dimension from photography. Piotr Sztompka notes that this feeling is not self-evident, it is not characteristic of every person. Many people look around themselves, but they cannot see the world around them, their gaze seems to slip along the surface of the visual without getting deep. You can learn to fix your view on the world of things and the world of people, but also regularly start looking for external indicators of internal phenomena. This is subject of the article.