Photography and anthropology
by ProQuest (Firm), Pinney, Christopher
fromExposures (London, England)
Photography and anthropology
by ebrary, Inc, Pinney, Christopher
fromExposures (London, England)
This is a provocative, cogent account of anthropologists' use of photography from the 1840s to the present. The book features 80 images, with 40 in colour, from the history of anthropological photograph, documenting native peoples and their dwellings, rituals, dress, habitation …
Photography and anthropology
by ProQuest (Firm), Pinney, Christopher
fromExposures (London, England)
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…