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THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PORTRAITURE
by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffmann Davis. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 294 pp. $29.95.
In The Art and Science of Portraiture, sociologist and portraiture pioneer Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot and cognitive developmental psychologist Jessica Hoffmann Davis map out the history, purposes, and dimensions of the qualitative research methodology known as portraiture. Portraiture shares some features with other qualitative research methods, and the book places portraiture within this larger field of inquiry. However, it does not take long to realize that there is a dimension to portraiture that separates it from traditional ethnographic research. The authors have...