Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd love to see an actual source for this oft repeated folk tale. I read a good deal of Mead in college; and don't recall coming across this "report." Nor can I find any documentation of it; except as repeated in photo discussions. I question its veracity due to ancient cave art; as well as the level of abstraction, coupled with a sophisticated sense of proportion, found in aboriginal artifacts all around the world. Can anyone help with citing a Mead source for this legend? a note off the iPad, George On Aug 14, 2013, at 7:43 AM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: > When Margaret Mead showed Tahitian natives black and white photographs of > themselves and their village, they rotated the photos this way and that, > shook their heads, and handed them back. "Nice designs", they said, "but > what are they?" Mead then realized that photographs were such abstractions > that only long experience enables their interpretation.