Photography, history and anthropology: An interview with Elizabeth Edwards

In her interview, Professor Elizabeth Edwards reflects on her training as a historian and anthropologist. Through remembering her trajectory, we follow the situations, people, and institutions that provided his encounter with photography. First, in the museological practice that allowed her to investigate photography’s social circuits, uses, and functions as an object of material and visual culture, and, later, as a teacher and researcher in relevant institutions in the United Kingdom and Europe. Throughout the interview, relevant reflections were presented, highlighting the conceptual implications related to the materiality of photography, the anthropological approach to cultural systems, and the importance of photography as a platform for observing the relationships between past, present, and future. It combines her reflection with a relevant set of historiographical references that allow a precise configuration of its main interlocutors in elaborating a complex approach to photography.

Keywords:
Photography; Knowledge; Human sciences