كتاب
Photography and anthropology
| العنوان: | Photography and anthropology |
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| المؤلفون: | Pinney, Christopher. |
| بيانات النشر: | London : Reaktion Books, 2011. |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| وصف مادي: | 174 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| سلاسل: | exposures Exposures (London, England) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Photography in ethnology -- History., Photography in ethnology -- History -- Pictorial works., Photography in anthropology -- History., Photography in anthropology -- History -- Pictorial works., Photography -- Social aspects., Photography -- Social aspects -- Pictorial works., Ethnology -- Philosophy., Ethnology -- Philosophy -- Pictorial works., Anthropology -- Philosophy., Anthropology -- Philosophy -- Pictorial works., Ethnology -- Methodology., Ethnology -- Methodology -- Pictorial works., Anthropology -- Methodology., Anthropology -- Methodology -- Pictorial works., History., Pictorial works. |
| الوصف: | Photography and anthropology share strikingly parallel histories. Christopher Pinney's provocative and eminently readable account provides a polemical narrative of anthropologists' use of photography from the 1840s to the present. Walter Benjamin suggested that photography 'make[s] the difference between technology and magic visible as a thoroughly historical variable,' and Pinney here explores photography as a divinatory practice. Though viewed as modern and rational, this quality of photography in fact propelled anthropologists towards the 'primitive' lives of those they studied. Early anthropology celebrated photography as a physical record, whose authority and permanence promised an escape from the lack of certainty in speech. For later anthropologists, this same quality became grounds to critique an imaging practice that failed to capture movement and process. But throughout these twists and turns, anthropology as a practice of 'being there' has found itself entwined in an intimate engagement with photography as metaphor for the collection of evidence. Photography and Anthropology reveals how anthropology provides the tools to re-imagine the power and magic of all photographic practices. It presents both a history of anthropology's seduction by photography and the anthropological theory of photography. This thoroughly researched book draws upon an intimate knowledge of the history of anthropology, photography and the world's major anthropological practitioners. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Prologue: Images of a counterscience -- The doubled history of photography and anthropology -- The trouble with photography -- The problem with anthropology -- Epilogue: The holograph. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn670480425 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-86189-804-3 1-86189-804-5 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-166) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.012817547.8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
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