Anthropology and photographyPhotography was first introduced to England in the late 1830s. In the early years of photography, photographs were not judged on whether something was good or wrongly, people believed every photograph they saw, they believed that a camera does not lie and that a photograph is a representation of the truth but photography is now associated with digital manipulation, almost everyone questions question the truth of a photograph. Scientists adopted photography as a new technical method to demonstrate their studies, photography was not considered to be an art, but was thought to be a medium used as evidence. A photograph was evidence, a recording mechanism revealing the truth. Although images could not be manipulated in the early years of photography, we must understand that images were constructed. To construct an image, the photographer must be subjective to the subject, which means that the image will be perceived as the photographer intends. What we see in a photograph is an interpretation of the photographer’s version of “truth.” This essay will explore the representation of anthropological photography and the assumptions and classifications created by it, questioning how images were represented and interpreted and what impact this had on society's views on race . To examine the conception of racism in photographs of colonized peoples, it is necessary to understand that photographs played an indisputable role in the development of racial theories. Photography was used to create type photographs, type photographs consisted of a colonial person posing either with very little clothing or totally undressed, the person usually stood against a plain or calibrated background, several photographs... ... middle of paper......the reality, meaning and interpretation attached to it are a secondary activity (Edwards, 1992, p.8). Edward goes on to argue that perceiving photographs as a representation of reality only increases expectations of "reality", the viewer understands that a photograph is perceived as "true" or "real" because it is what that he expects to see: “this is how it should be” passes through “this is how it is/was”. The same photographs used by Darwin to prove his theory that all races came from the same species, were also used as evidence to prove that all races came from different species. Louis Agassiz did not agree with Darwin and considered that the differences focused on the differences of races and came to the conclusion that they could only come from different species. The interpretation of photography is strongly influenced by the retrospective construction of intention..