Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Tina Manley 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. Have a look at image #5 and its caption? (much of Mead's work was also done in Bali - I believe) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist