Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Somehow, this discussion reminds me of the kitten who raced behind a mirror to catch his image. Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > These women had never seen a photograph before. They had no problems > recognizing themselves but it was a color photo and they have seen their > reflections in the water. > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/144219663 > > Tina > > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 2:05 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote: > >> ?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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information