Contributors of these 12 chapters/papers explain the methods behind building visual information, but avoid step-by-step instructions and focus instead on their epistemological positions, their responses to populations, their research interests, their rapport with subjects, and even their means of maintaining confidentiality. They address such issues as how documentary photography relates to other fieldwork and social research, how images work (or do not) as data, why censorship sometimes works against itself, how photo narratives work across projects and populations, why studying children is enhanced by photography, how cultural activism figures in the visual image, how video diaries inform us about sexuality, when symbolism enters, and how websites can be precarious in blending narrative, aesthetics and social theory. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)