Raw Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Raw Histories write by Elizabeth Edwards. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Raw Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Photographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This book explores how approaching anthropological photographs as 'history' can offer both theoretical and empirical insights into these roles. Photographs are thought to make problematic history because of their ambiguity and 'rawness'. In short, they have too many meanings. The author refutes this prejudice by exploring, through a series of case studies, precisely the potential of this raw quality to open up new perspectives. Taking the nature of photography as her starting point, the author argues that photographs are not merely pictures of things but are part of a dynamic and fluid historical dialogue, which is active not only in the creation of the photograph but in its subsequent social biography in archive and museum spaces, past and present. In this context, the book challenges any uniform view of anthropological photography and its resulting archives. Drawing on a variety of examples, largely from the Pacific, the book demonstrates how close readings of photographs reveal not only western agendas, but also many layers of differing historical and cross-cultural experiences. That is, photographs can 'spring leaks' to show an alternative viewpoint. These themes are developed further by examining the dynamics of photographs and issues around them as used by contemporary artists and curators and presented to an increasingly varied public. This book convincingly demonstrates photographs' potential to articulate histories other than those of their immediate appearances, a potential that can no longer be neglected by scholars and institutions.
Photography and Anthropology
Photography and Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Photography and Anthropology write by Christopher Pinney. This book was released on 2012. Photography and Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Photography and anthropology share strikingly parallel histories. Christopher Pinney's provocative and eminently readable account provides a polemical narrative of anthropologists' use of photography from the 1840s to the present. Walter Benjamin suggested that photography 'make[s] the difference between technology and magic visible as a thoroughly historical variable, ' and Pinney here explores photography as a divinatory practice. Though viewed as modern and rational, this quality of photography in fact propelled anthropologists towards the 'primitive' lives of those they studied. Early anthropology celebrated photography as a physical record, whose authority and permanence promised an escape from the lack of certainty in speech. For later anthropologists, this same quality became grounds to critique an imaging practice that failed to capture movement and process. But throughout these twists and turns, anthropology as a practice of 'being there' has found itself entwined in an intimate engagement with photography as metaphor for the collection of evidence. Photography and Anthropology reveals how anthropology provides the tools to re-imagine the power and magic of all photographic practices. It presents both a history of anthropology's seduction by photography and the anthropological theory of photography. This thoroughly researched book draws upon an intimate knowledge of the history of anthropology, photography and the world's major anthropological practitioners.
Made to Be Seen
Made to Be Seen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Made to Be Seen write by Marcus Banks. This book was released on 2012-08-01. Made to Be Seen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Made to be Seen brings together leading scholars of visual anthropology to examine the historical development of this multifaceted and growing field. Expanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions, the contributors to Made to be Seen reflect on the role of the visual in all areas of life. Different essays critically examine a range of topics: art, dress and body adornment, photography, the built environment, digital forms of visual anthropology, indigenous media, the body as a cultural phenomenon, the relationship between experimental and ethnographic film, and more. The first attempt to present a comprehensive overview of the many aspects of an anthropological approach to the study of visual and pictorial culture, Made to be Seen will be the standard reference on the subject for years to come. Students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, visual studies, and cultural studies will greatly benefit from this pioneering look at the way the visual is inextricably threaded through most, if not all, areas of human activity.
Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920
Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920 write by Elizabeth Edwards. This book was released on 1992. Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the use of photography in British anthropological expeditions, and discusses the photograph as document
The Camera as Historian
The Camera as Historian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Camera as Historian write by Elizabeth Edwards. This book was released on 2012-04-11. The Camera as Historian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In the camera as historian, the groundbreaking historical and visual anthropologist Elizabeth Edwards works with an archive of neraly 55,000 photographs taken by 1,000 photographers, mostly unknown until now." -- Inside cover.
