Margaret Mead and Ken Heyman
collaboration between an anthropologist and a photographer in the second half of the 20th century
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https://doi.org/10.21680/2446-5674.2023v10n19ID31170Keywords:
Photography, Photographic visual anthropology, History of anthropology, Margaret Mead, Ken HeymanAbstract
This article focuses on the use of photographs in the field of anthropology based on the works developed by Margaret Mead in partnership with the photographer Ken Heyman. A photographic visual anthropology is historically present as the anthropological discipline has experimented with the use of the photographic image in the most diverse projects since the 19th century. Margaret Mead played an important role in the 20th century, especially for her work in partnership with Gregory Bateson in Bali (1936 - 1942), as well as for her short article published at the opening of a book dedicated to thinking about the principles of visual anthropology (1975). However, how to measure Mead's contributions beyond the positions expressed in the aforementioned works? In this sense, an examination of Mead's collaboration with Ken Heyman may shed light on the conceptions of visual anthropology that can be evoked when considering the relationship and collaborative work between photographers and anthropologists.
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