"The writing is beautiful, the ideas persuasive, and the picture itpaints of the process of careful observation is one that everywriter should read. . . . A rich and wonderful book."
€"American Journal of Education
A landmark contribution to the field of research methodology,this remarkable book illuminates the origins, purposes, andfeatures of portraiture€"placing it within the largerdiscourse on social science inquiry and mapping it onto the broaderterrain of qualitative research.
