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Subject: [Leica] NYLUG "10 @ICP: "Photoethnography" - Karen Nakamura
From: passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:03:30 -0400
References: <4BAFBC65.8090506@threshinc.com>

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
>
>
>
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