ABSTRACT
Visual science and technology studies (VSTS) build on work already accomplished through science and technology studies (STS) of still and moving images as evidence. It should attend to what can be learned both from the history of visual anthropology and from that of documentary film, as well as from the steps now being taken in nonlinear presentations, and see how they might touch on the fields of science, technology and medicine. Without doubt, VSTS can, like visual anthropology, capture process. For the visual anthropologist, building an igloo, preparing a dowry, herding sheep is important for an STS attentive to science in the making as well as its finished products, this is crucial. Some of the most interesting work in STS these days' cuts across the pure disciplinary categories of history, philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Visual STS should build on work already accomplished through STS studies of still and moving images as evidence.
