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Subject: [Leica] NYLUG "10 @ICP: "Photoethnography" - Karen Nakamura
From: jwlee01 at gmail.com (John Lee)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:49:46 -0400

>From the NYLUG Committee:
To the LUG:


NYLUG '10: Colloquium in Photography

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         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.

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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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