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Subject: [Leica] Margaret Mead on photography
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:06:35 -0700
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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
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
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> Tina Manley
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