ABSTRACT
Today, many anthropologists and researchers from other disciplines, such as paleoimagers, have had little or no formal training in photography and assume that photography is a simple manner of point and shoot. However, when building a team for a field research project, current practice is to strive to engage trained photographers in order to provide accurate, complete, and usable images. The photographs are then combined with a narrative or text provided by the field anthropologist and other specialists to ensure that any photographs taken have a purpose beyond objectifying the subject. In this way, the field context can be captured and better communicated. Each discipline brings its special knowledge and skills to bear on a field research project. Photographers, too, have their place in fieldwork. Additionally, the continued development of digital photographic technology makes on-site instant image review possible.
