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Subject: [Leica] NYLUG "10 @ICP: "Photoethnography" - Karen Nakamura
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:54:58 -0400
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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
>
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