ISBN:
9781861898043
,
9781780230115 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
176 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781780230115
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
RB-Exposures
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Geschichte 1850-2010
;
Geschichte 1844-2007
;
Fotografie
;
Anthropologie
;
Ethnologie
;
Volk
;
Ethnologische Fotografie
;
Online-Publikation
;
Bildband
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In Photography and Anthropology, Christopher Pinney presents a provocative and readable account of the strikingly parallel histories of the two disciplines, as well as a polemical narrative and overview of the use of photography by anthropologists 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 that prompted anthropologists to capture the "primitive" lives of those they studied. 〈/P...
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