Visual Representations: The Technical and Social Production of Photographic Images, takes the still camera as its ethnographic object of inquiry to show how the technical may not necessarily be seen as the specific and the objective resting on a particularity. Privileging the domain of the visual through its construction and representation, this work attempts to thwart the assumption that the technical occupies the domain of objectivity while the social lies in the realm of generality. Moving beyond this assumption this work in fact reveals that the technical in meeting the demands of the...