["Journal of Law and Society, Volume 48, Issue S1, Page S44-S58, December 2021. ", "\nAbstract\nThe role played by pictures in the formation of our legal imaginations is one that has attracted the attention of socio‐legal scholars. Research in this field is on the rise and diversifying. However, to date there has been little engagement with, or reflection on, the methods and methodology that researchers have deployed in their turn to pictures as data. The goal of this article is to explore a range of methodological issues by way of several different types of pictures: paintings, photographs, and moving pictures with sound generated by way of lens‐based digital technologies.\n"]