Editing Rephotography (section)

==In social investigation==
Rephotography has also been a useful diachronic visual method<ref>Rose, Gillian (2007). ''Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials''. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.</ref> for researchers in sociology and communication to understand social change.<ref>Prosser, Jon. Researching with Visual Images: Some Guidance Notes and Glossary for Beginners. Economic and Social Research Council's National Centre for Research Methods, The Universities of Manchester and Leeds, July 2006.</ref> Three main approaches are common – photographs of places,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Klett |first=Mark |title=The SAGE handbook of visual research methods |publisher=Sage |year=2011 |editor-last=Margolis |editor-first=E. |location=London |pages=114–130 |chapter=Repeat photography in landscape research |editor-last2=Pauwels |editor-first2=L.}}</ref> participants, or activities, functions, or processes – with scholars examining elements of continuity.<ref>For diverse examples see Framing Time And Place: Repeats & Returns In Photography Conference, University of Plymouth [http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/AAH/Framing Time and Place Information (2).pdf Framing Time And Place: Repeats & Returns In Photography Conference, University of Plymouth].</ref> This method is advantageous to studying social change due to the capacity of cameras to record scenes with greater completeness and speed, to document detailed complexities at a single time, and to capture images in an unobtrusive manner. Repeat photographs offer "subtle cues about the changing character of social life".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rieger |first=J. H. |title=The SAGE handbook of visual research methods |publisher=Sage |year=2011 |editor-last=Margolis |editor-first=E. |location=London |pages=7, 132–149 |chapter=Rephotography for documenting social change |editor-last2=Pauwels |editor-first2=L.}}</ref> Upon analysis of elements of continuity within the images, researchers must be cautious to not make erroneous interpretations of change. Another closely related use of rephotography has been the political one made by Gustavo Germano in Argentina, who rephotographed family pictures of disappeared, thus making explicit both the missing people and the life that goes on.