Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research - Paperback

by Marcus Banks (Author)

Broad in its coverage and examining the wide range of uses of visual images, this second edition helps the reader overcome some of the practical challenges they face when conducting visually orientated research.

Author Biography

Marcus Banks was Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Having completed a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, with a study of Jain people in England and India, he trained as an ethnographic documentary filmmaker at the National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, UK.

He was the author Using Visual Data in Qualitative Research (2007) and co-editor of Rethinking Visual Anthropology (1997, with Howard Morphy), and Made to be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology (2011, with Jay Ruby), as well as publishing numerous papers on visual research.

He published on documentary film forms and film practice in colonial India, and was conducting research on image production and use in forensic science practice.