The contemporary iconic communication results in impact on human subjectivity. Carried out study of the iconography (photography, video and drawing) as psychosocial research method with children of coastal communities in Brazil. The objective is to describe the construction of the iconographic collection and interpret them from vigotskianos concepts of creativity and imagination. The method identified, stored, cataloged, described and interpreted images produced in psychosocial research and interventions of the Research Group since 1998. It resulted 127 pictures, 47 videos and 72 drawings identified in tree research projects and one intervention project; videos are field records; photographs are researcher records (48), photos of self-image are participant records (21) and personal archive produced prior to the research(58) and drawings are participant’s self-image produced during the research. Thus, potentiated the projection of childhood memory; introduced elements that are pre-knowledge of the child; contextualized experiences narrated and recollected. From a theoretical point of view, the images aim subjectivities and allow the production of scientific knowledge on psychosocial processes such as imagination and creation. According to the socio-historical perspective Vygotskyan, it is understood that images are crystallization of human processes of creation and imagination. The images are characterized as both products and producers interconnected Lo psychic processes. It is important to consider the possibility of subjectify when faced with such images. To conclude, the iconography is methodological alternative to oral or written records in psychosocial research with children.
