Abstract

While the activity of photographing people is a complex form of social interaction, social psychologists have not yet studied it in a systematic way. Some preliminary questions are presented. A psychological evaluation of the psychoanalytic interpretation of it as a form of voyeurism is made. The specific styles of some eminent photographers are considered in terms of various role analogies. The interaction within some common genres of photography is considered in terms of the contracts and the power balance/imbalance between the person with the camera and the subject in the photograph.

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