Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Karen's interests are wide. My interaction with her was about the Blad's. > I had not realized ( I don't think) that she was a leica user. Have fun if > you go. Reports would be great. > > Alastair > >>> From the NYLUG Committee: >> To the LUG: >> >> >> NYLUG '10: Colloquium in Photography >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Photoethnography, Visual Anthropology, and the Leica >> >> The invention of the first Leica camera in 1913 ushered in new >> possibilities for naturalistic photography. Heavy tripod-mounted >> wooden cameras could be replaced by Oskar Barnack?s pocketable little >> brass wonder. Dozens of bulky film plates could be exchanged for a >> single interchangeable film cartridge. New vistas for street and >> field photography were opened up. Anthropologists were early adopters >> of this technology to bring back images from across the world. It is >> remarkable that almost a hundred years later we are still using the >> same film in much the same film cartridge that Oskar Barnack >> originally developed. >> Karen Nakamura is a cultural and visual anthropologist of Japan. >> An assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University, she has >> written an award-winning ethnography titled Deaf in Japan. She is >> known as the creator of the website Photoethnography.com and has also >> filmed and edited two ethnographic films. >> In this presentation, Karen will be talking about how the history >> of >> visual anthropology, how she uses her Leica cameras in her fieldwork, >> and share some of the photographs that she has taken in Japan, >> Malaysia, China, and the United States. >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------- >> Place: >> School of the International Center of Photography >> 1114 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue and 43rd Street) >> New York City >> >> Date and Time: >> Saturday, May 22 at 5:30PM >> >> Registration Fee (Must be received by us no later than Monday, May10): >> $30 >> >> >> Payment: >> -- Make Check out to -- >> RUBIN MACKAY NYLUG CFA >> >> -- SEND CHECK to -- >> RUBIN MACKAY INTERNATIONAL LAW PC >> 303 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 1109 >> NEW YORK, NY 10016 >> >> OR >> >> -- Paypal -- >> Please email Chris Saganich. >> chs2018 at med.cornell.edu >> >> Please email me if you wish to attend. >> >> >> Cheers, >> John I'd bet she uses a doze different brands and kinds of cameras. And well too. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner