Web Roundup: Photography and Visual Tech by Lily Shapiro
This month’s Web Roundup is focused loosely around the theme of the visual. How do we use photography and other mediums to tell stories, and what stories do…
Tag: photography
Persian Muscle Men
Following the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the sporting activities in the Zurkhaneh were declared inappropriate. Nowadays, however, they have become a symbol of Iranian national pride. Persia’s …
Memes Brazilians are sharing about the Olympics
One of the stars of the Olympic games in Rio have been the crowd. It has attracted the attention of the foreign press (NYTimes, BBC), and particularly of…
The Return of the Witch
Before I was old enough to go to school- before I was stupid enough to believe ‘there’s no such thing as witches’… I knew one. She haunted every…
Call for Papers and Visual Submissions: Photography and (con)text/Photography in Academic Research 8-9 September 2016
Via the Royal Anthropological Institute ‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to announce a call for papers and visual submissions for a conference on ‘Photography in Academic…
Photography: Between Anthropology and History
Photography: Between Anthropology and History Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK 20-21 June 2016 Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @PHRC_DeMontfort Conference …
Flora of Qatar
For anyone interested in photographs of the flora of Qatar, there is a fine website produced by Dr. Alexey Sergeev. You can even search by species. Overall the…
Faded Paint and Yellowed Photos: On, Image, Inspiration, and Memory with Javier Urcid
How does a camera and a deep sense of curiosity lead to a lifetime of archaeological research on ancient peoples, their symbols, art, and writing? Ryan and Aneil…
Women of Iran’s Past
The women of Iran – 120 years ago Antoin Sevruguin, the father of Iranian society photography, captured portraits of Iranian women in the early 20th century, from well-known…
Selfies | 自拍
In “Dim Stockings”, a short chapter included in his The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben takes a cue from the prosaics of a stockings advertisement to discuss the commodification…
Jubilation During Trying Times: Carnival in Guinea-Bissau
~ an essay with photos ~ For decades, the small West African country of Guinea-Bissau has been plagued by coups, misrule, political instability and non-existent infrastructures. It is often describe…
Afghans before the Taliban
Family bond: Two colourful sisters, hand in hand, pose for a photograph in Kabul, surrounded by trading locals The Daily Mail, a British newspaper, has an online gallery…
Intergenerational Experiential Technologies
Post by Christine Finn, as part of the Analog/Digital series The photo was taken at the dawn of the new year, 2016. It is a snapshot taken at…
The Anti-Camera
Christopher Pinney, UCL Anthropology I recently came across M.N. Srinivas’ observation that his enthusiastic engagement with photography, during his fieldwork in Mysore in the late 1940s, earned him…
‘Silence is golden/but my eyes still see’: Award winning documentary ‘The Silence of the Flies’
In December 2015 the School of Anthropology and Conservation was privileged to welcome alumnus Gonzalo Chacon for a screening and discussion of the award winning documentary ‘The Silence…
Bagram Santa
Easily lending themselves to multiple forms of misunderstanding, the Pentagon nevertheless regularly produces images of military personnel dressed as Santa Claus. This too is a pattern, minor in…
The Babysitter
Big Chief, Big Daddy, Big Babysitter to the World If “winning hearts and minds” is at the top of your global campaign agenda for strategic communication, then you…
Bare Feet
Encoding Poverty, Backwardness, and Dependency in US Military Imagery Bare feet. Ever since I was a small child, I have been made aware of how not wearing…
Best of 2015: Anthropology News
Here are the top ten most-read Anthropology News articles of 2015! 1. Indian Mascots: Naturalized Racism and Anthropology Bernard C. Perley 2. Mentoring the Next Generation of Practicing…
Inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone: Place and Memory after Disaster
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Pablo Figueroa. Pablo is an assistant professor in the Center for International Education at Waseda University in Tokyo. In this position, he teaches courses on glo…