Abstract
This article analyzes the influence of historical aspects on the concept of family, social and emotional relations of the institution of the family, based on the consideration of family photo albums of Kazakhstan in the second half of the XXth century. The article deals with the main issues of family history, focusing on identifying their main goals and interests in family photography. Photography focuses on three areas in which most historical research is carried out today: the structure of the family and household, the group of relatives, the course of life, and the relationship between the family and social change. The images in the photo were analyzed in the context of understanding ways of adjusting to life, as well as documenting more social aspects of daily life that they could not access from other historical sources. The article also analyzes the combination of modern "classical" photography theory and modern cultural theory to show the possible interpretative implications of the analysis of family photography based on cultural theory, sociocultural anthropology, material culture studies, impact factor theory and phenomenology.