Franz Boas was considered by many to be the "father of American anthropology", as he was a pioneer in the fight against American isolationism, intolerance and misinformation about biological diversity and linguistics. Born in Minden, Westphalia, Germany, in 1858 to a Jewish family, Boas's thinking was based on the ideals of the German Revolution of 1848 and followed the intellectual freedom of his parents (Stocking, 1974). However, Boas did not have a specific ambition to study human cultures, and after attending the universities of Heidelberg, Bonn and Kiel, he received a doctorate in 1881. in physics, with a minor in geography. Marked by the influence of Rudolf Virchow, who led the founding of the Berliner Gesell Shaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte (Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory), his academic training gave Boas a strong tradition liberal and an attitude towards race, which rejected theories which recognized the existence of racial hierarchies based on cultural differences (Stocking, 1974). In 1883, as part of his training at the University of Heidelberg, Boas undertook his first expedition with the dual benefit of mapping the Canadian Arctic coast and satisfying his new interest in culture which, following the trip, transformed interested in discovering what determines human behavior. “A year of life spent as an Eskimo among the Eskimos,” says Boas (1938, p. 202), “had a profound influence on the evolution of my views, […] because it distanced me from my ancient interests and towards the desire to understand what determines the behavior of human beings His study of indigenous peoples, their appearance, their language and their traditions, allowed him to go beyond the concept...... middle of the. paper ......type: the photography of Franz Boas Visual Communication, 12 (1): 123-142 MacDonald, K. (1998). In MacDonald, K., The Culture of Criticism: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements. California State University: Long Beach, pp. 20-50. F. (1930). In Seligman, ERA ed., Macmillan Encyclopedia: New York. In Pink, S., The Future of Visual Anthropology: Engaging the Senses. Routledge: New York, p. 3-20. Stocking, G. W. Jr. (1982). From physics to ethnology. In Stocking, W. G. Jr., Race, Culture, and Ethnology: Essays on the History of Anthropology. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, pp... 134-160.