Visual Anthropology's Contribution to the Field of Anthropology

Colliers personal account of his movement from photography as
art into the objectivity of the camera image as scientific
evidence. On arrival at Cornell University, Collier 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. (Edited Magazins abstract)