Visual Anthropology's Contribution to the Field of Anthropology.

From the abstract: This is an account of the movement of
photography as art into the objectivity of the camera image as
scientific evidence, On arrival at Cornell University, the author
did not appreciate the extreme flexibility of this department,
primarily dedicated to applied anthropology, and thereby more
open to diverse human data than other branches of the field. The
action-problem-solving Cornell students and behavioral
specialists leapt over theoretical obstacles and directly
utilized photographic insights both projectively and in precise
content analysis. But the future challenge of visual anthropology
came with the text of the moving image and the completeness of
filmic understanding.