Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Her site has a very good section on R cameras and lenses as I recollect. On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote: > Karen is a very interesting woman. She's a Yale academic with impressive > credentials, and also a fine photographer who loves cameras--especially > classic 50-70s cameras--both as tools for her ethnographic work, and for > their own sake. She's not afraid to use a screwdriver when necessary. She > has indeed used Leicas, and was on the LUG c. 2003-2005. If you want to > learn more about her and see some of her work, check out her site at: > http://www.photoethnography.com/ > > You'll find her gallery and equipment sections quite interesting. Much of > the site was done a few years ago, but classic camera info doesn't change > much. Her blog is current, but most of its archives links didn't work for > me. > http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/ > > --Peter > > > > > Karen's interests are wide. My interaction with her was about the Blad's. > > I had not realized ( I don't think) that she was a leica user. Have fun > if > > you go. Reports would be great. > > > > Alastair > > > >>> From the NYLUG Committee: > >> To the LUG: > >> > >> > >> NYLUG '10: Colloquium in Photography > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Photoethnography, Visual Anthropology, and the Leica > >> > >> The invention of the first Leica camera in 1913 ushered in new > >> possibilities for naturalistic photography. Heavy tripod-mounted > >> wooden cameras could be replaced by Oskar Barnack?s pocketable little > >> brass wonder. Dozens of bulky film plates could be exchanged for a > >> single interchangeable film cartridge. New vistas for street and > >> field photography were opened up. Anthropologists were early adopters > >> of this technology to bring back images from across the world. It is > >> remarkable that almost a hundred years later we are still using the > >> same film in much the same film cartridge that Oskar Barnack > >> originally developed. > >> Karen Nakamura is a cultural and visual anthropologist of Japan. > >> An assistant professor of anthropology at Yale University, she has > >> written an award-winning ethnography titled Deaf in Japan. She is > >> known as the creator of the website Photoethnography.com and has also > >> filmed and edited two ethnographic films. > >> In this presentation, Karen will be talking about how the > history > >> of > >> visual anthropology, how she uses her Leica cameras in her fieldwork, > >> and share some of the photographs that she has taken in Japan, > >> Malaysia, China, and the United States. > >> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------- > >> Place: > >> School of the International Center of Photography > >> 1114 Avenue of the Americas (6th Avenue and 43rd Street) > >> New York City > >> > >> Date and Time: > >> Saturday, May 22 at 5:30PM > >> > >> Registration Fee (Must be received by us no later than Monday, May10): > >> $30 > >> > >> > >> Payment: > >> -- Make Check out to -- > >> RUBIN MACKAY NYLUG CFA > >> > >> -- SEND CHECK to -- > >> RUBIN MACKAY INTERNATIONAL LAW PC > >> 303 FIFTH AVENUE, SUITE 1109 > >> NEW YORK, NY 10016 > >> > >> OR > >> > >> -- Paypal -- > >> Please email Chris Saganich. > >> chs2018 at med.cornell.edu > >> > >> Please email me if you wish to attend. > >> > >> > >> Cheers, > >> John > > > I'd bet she uses a doze different brands and kinds of cameras. And well > too. > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >