✚ What scientific tools are used in photography studies? ✚ What are the specific features of photography – as an object, an image, a practice? ✚ What are the main methods and approaches to analyzing photographs and other visual sources? ✚ How do approaches to photography research differ in art history, cultural history, and anthropology? ✚ How can we study not only individual photographs but also photo collections? ✚ What, besides the photographic image itself, might be of interest to photography researchers?

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