Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]?Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.? Margaret Mead The comments I made on Margaret Mead showing photographs to South Sea natives were supposedly published in a book by Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead's husband and co-worker. The book "Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: 1936 to 1939" was published by the University of Chicago Press and is available through Amazon. By his own account Bateson took 25,000 photographs in Bali and he and Mead took many more in the various islands of he South Pacific. Many were published in written works relatively unfamiliar to people other than experts in Balinese culture or on Bateson's and Mead's lives. I confess to not having read the original work. I heard the statement from Harvard anthropology professor Clyde Kluckhoen about 1949. Kluckhoen was Mead's assistant during the 40s. Bateson, rather than Mead was responsible for the wide use of photography in anthropology. The camera Mead used was a Kodak Brownie. Larry Z