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* [[Media:Howard_S._Becker_-_Art_Photography_in_America_1975.pdf|"Art Photography in America"]], ''Journal of Communication'' 25 (Winter 1975), pp 74–84. | * [[Media:Howard_S._Becker_-_Art_Photography_in_America_1975.pdf|"Art Photography in America"]], ''Journal of Communication'' 25 (Winter 1975), pp 74–84. | ||
* [[Media:Howard_S._Becker_-_Photographic_strategies_1977.pdf|"Photographic strategies"]], ''Society'' 14:2 (1977), pp 85-87. | * [[Media:Howard_S._Becker_-_Photographic_strategies_1977.pdf|"Photographic strategies"]], ''Society'' 14:2 (1977), pp 85-87. | ||
| − | * [[Media:Becker_Visual_sociology_documentary_photography_and_photojournalism_1995.pdf|"Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context"]], Visual Studies, 10: 1 (1995):5 | + | * [[Media:Becker_Visual_sociology_documentary_photography_and_photojournalism_1995.pdf|"Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context"]], Visual Studies, 10: 1 (1995):5-14 |
* "[[Media:Howard_S._Becker_-_Categories_and_Comparisons-_How_We_Find_Meaning_in_Photographs.pdf|Categories and Comparisons: How We Find Meaning in Photographs]]", ''Visual Anthropology'' 14:2 (1998), pp 3-10. | * "[[Media:Howard_S._Becker_-_Categories_and_Comparisons-_How_We_Find_Meaning_in_Photographs.pdf|Categories and Comparisons: How We Find Meaning in Photographs]]", ''Visual Anthropology'' 14:2 (1998), pp 3-10. | ||
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Howard Saul Becker (born April 18, 1928) is an American sociologist who has made major contributions to the sociology of deviance, sociology of art, and sociology of music. Before becoming a sociologist, Becker was a photographer and a piano jazz player.
Literature
- Books (selection)
- Art Worlds, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
- with Michal M. McCall (ed.), Symbolic interaction and cultural studies, The University of Chicago Press, 1990.
- with Robert R. Faulkner, Do You Know...? The Jazz Repertoire in Action, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Articles (selection)
- "Photography and Sociology", Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1, 1974:3–26.
- "Art Photography in America", Journal of Communication 25 (Winter 1975), pp 74–84.
- "Photographic strategies", Society 14:2 (1977), pp 85-87.
- "Visual sociology, documentary photography, and photojournalism: It's (almost) all a matter of context", Visual Studies, 10: 1 (1995):5-14
- "Categories and Comparisons: How We Find Meaning in Photographs", Visual Anthropology 14:2 (1998), pp 3-10.
