Photoethnographers

by Karen Nakamura

The category of photoethnographers is going to be a necessarily contentious one since it's a label that has only recently been invented. Under the critieria of "representing other cultures visually," I came up with the list below. Additions, corrections, and comments are greatly appreciated. KN

Photoethnographic Researchers & Photoethnographies

• Bateson, Gregory and Margaret Mead (1942). Balinese character, a photographic analysis. New York,: The New York academy of sciences.
• Doty, C. Stewart, Dale S. Mudge, et al. (2002). Photographing Navajos : John Collier, Jr. on the reservation, 1948-1953 by C. Stewart Doty, Dale Sperry Mudge, Herbert J. Benally ; photographs by John Collier Jr. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
• Kratz, Corinne Ann (2002). The ones that are wanted : communication and the politics of representation in a photographic exhibition. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Parr, Martin and Simon Winchester (1995). Small world: a global photographic project, 1987-1994. Stockport England: Dewi Lewis Pub.
• Poole, Deborah (1997). Vision, race, and modernity : a visual economy of the Andean image world. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
• Smith, W. Eugene and Aileen Mioko Smith (1975). Minamata. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston.
• Vogt, Evon Zartman (1974). Aerial photography in anthropological field research. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
• Westermarck, Edward and Kirsti Suolinna (2000). Portraying Morocco : Edward Westermarck's fieldwork and photographs 1898-1913. êAbo: êAbo Akademis Fèorlag.

Visual Anthropologists Working with Photographic Material

• Banta, Melissa, Curtis M. Hinsley, et al. (1986). From site to sight: anthropology, photography, and the power of imagery : a photographic exhibition from the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum Press : Distributed by Harvard University Press.
• Devereaux, Leslie and Roger Hillman (1995). Fields of vision : essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Edwards, Elizabeth (2001). Raw histories: photographs, anthropology and museums. Oxford ; New York: Berg.
• Fitzhugh, William W. and Chisato O. Dubreuil, Ed. (2000). Ainu : Spirit of a Northern People. Seattle:†University of Washington Press.
• Howarth, Anthony (1967). Kenyatta, a photographic biography. Nairobi: East African Pub. House.
• Pezzati, Alessandro and University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. (2002). Adventures in photography : expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
• Phillips, Sandra S., Mark Haworth-Booth, et al. (1997). Police pictures: the photograph as evidence. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Chronicle Books.

Photoethnographic Artists
(with caveats that agreeably some are stretching the boundaries a bit)

• William Albert Allard (American, 1937-)
• Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971)
• Letizia Battaglia
• Werner Bischof
• Manuel Alvarez Bravo
• Horace Bristol
• Robert Capa
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Edward Curtis
• Paul D'Amato
  • http://www.yossimilogallery.com/paulDamato/index.htm
  • http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/damato/05.html
  • http://www.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/damato/index.html
  • http://www.doubletakemagazine.org/mag/html/backissues/22/damato/
  • http://www.colum.edu/undergraduate/photo/fac/indfac/damato/damato.html
• William Eggleston (American)
• Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)
• Harvey Finkle (American)
• Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904-1971)
• Robert Doisneau
• Robert Frank
• Lee Friedlander
• Nan Goldin (American, 1953-)
• Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940)
• Wing Young Huie (American, 1955-)
• Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)
• Danny Lyon (American, 1942-)
  - Art History: Photography: Essays: Danny Lyon: The Responsible Witness
• Sally Mann
• Robert Mapplethorpe
• Lisette Model (American, b. Austria, 1906-1983)
• Sebastiao Salgado (Brazilian; 1944- )
  - Home Page
• W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918-1978)
• Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (American, b. Austria, 1899-1968)
• Carrie Ma Weems (American, 1953-)
• Gary Winogrand (1928-1984)
• Daniel Cheng Yang
• Suggestions to the list are welcome.

Misc links

• Farm Security Administration -- Office of War Information (1935-1945)
  • contains photos by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and more
• Masters of Photography.com
• NARA Confederate War Photos

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