Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/14

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Subject: [Leica] Margaret Mead on photography
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 13:35:39 -0500
References: <8D0672FFE4308D3-BE0-29847@Webmail-m112.sysops.aol.com> <CA+yJO1AOuH6d+e0jtzgr-MFm79R+5y9gMDyXokQ01e+ddM4cAA@mail.gmail.com>

On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Tina Manley 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.

Have a look at image #5 and its caption?

(much of Mead's work was also done in Bali - I believe)

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
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