Photography Context
National Geographic sponsored a photography contest and here is one of the best. The caption reads: “A passerby walks around Ben Youssef Madrasa, an Islamic college in Marrakesh,…
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NEW! — Dave Lewis: “Field Work”
My engagement with the ideas and practices of fieldwork stems from my interest in anthropology and the classification of human “types” through the “science” of anthropometry in the…
A photo fell out of a book…
My book group (I say with inner pleasure at finally belonging to one) usually decide on books to read for the coming months by asking for suggestions from…
The Art of Being IN: Road tripping, photographing and hanging out in post-soviet Russia #INTERVIEW
Yesterday we opened the AVMoFA’s first summer exhibition – Die SommerWende – and today we are very pleased to meet the artist, Axel Schön, in person and talk…
Breaking walls and exploring #borders in the context of #postsocialism
Today we are very excited at Allegra – we continue our experimentation with serving you, dear readers, exotic and delicious slow food for thought. This time we created…
Personal and public aesthetics: What I learned from my own visceral reactions in the field
Photo by Nell Hayes At first, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but over the first several months in my fieldsite in northern Chile I…
Bedouin Women with Cameras…
“Photography has brought us closer, it’s enabled us to find a common language.” Photo by Ilan Assayag The reality exposed by Bedouin women armed with cameras Mothers and…
Realism or Iconography? The Pentagon’s Implicit Theory of Visual Representation
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
The US Military as Great Chief, Father, Doctor, and Babysitter
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
The Visual Imperium
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
Pentagon Photography and Visual Anthropology
Could it be any more obvious how the Pentagon has learned to mimic certain styles of anthropological photography as shown in the instance above? Resembling any of a…
Inter-Reflexions Photography 2014
For those of you who missed the Inter-Reflexions video and photo exhibition on June 3rd, worry not. You can now watch the videos on line, just click on…
"An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record"?; More Like Diary of a ColonialPhotographer!
In this post, Tayla introduces the three-part takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s Before they Pass Away by looking at colonial photography, and the danger of reading photographs as ‘truth’. It…
"An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record"?; More Like Diary of a ColonialPhotographer!
In this post, Tayla introduces the three-part takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s Before they Pass Away by looking at colonial photography, and the danger of reading photographs as ‘truth’. It…
"An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record"?; More Like Diary of a ColonialPhotographer!
In this post, Tayla introduces the three-part takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s Before they Pass Away by looking at colonial photography, and the danger of reading photographs as ‘truth’. It…
"An Irreplaceable Ethnographic Record"?; More Like Diary of a ColonialPhotographer!
In this post, Tayla introduces the three-part takedown of Jimmy Nelson’s Before they Pass Away by looking at colonial photography, and the danger of reading photographs as ‘truth’. It…
Special guest Ben Gebo today on TaL, ‘Altered States’ pt 2
Join This Anthro Life for another mind-bending conversation as we ‘turn on, tune out, and drop in’ the conversation with returning guest Ben Gebo. With Ben’s help we…
#Instalife: How Instagram redefines the meaning and practice of photography
Instagram is a social, mobile photography app. They have 100 million monthly active users, and 40 million Instagram photos are posted per day. Purchased by the leviathan of…
Using art and audiovisual methods with migrants in Spain: an interview with Francesco Bondanini
Francesco Bondanini, a University of Kent alumnus, uses participatory visual methods to explore and empower the lives of migrants and detainees in Spain and Germany. In the interview…
Leang Neak Ta Ceremony of Spirit Mediums in Cambodia
Last week my friend Paul Christensen invited me to attend a ceremony of spirit mediums with him. The day was fascinating – full of sounds, smells and sights…
Life on water: a photographic tale from Cambodia
Back in August 2012 I spent a day at the Vietnamese floating village at Kampong Chnnang, central Cambodia. Lying at the mouth of the Tonle Sap Lake, much…