Free Public Lecture and Book Signing
Melissa Banta, Projects Curator, Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard Library Museum Associate, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University
In 1986, the Peabody Museum mounted From Site to Sight, a groundbreaking traveling exhibition on the historic and contemporary uses of photography in anthropology. Using visual materials from the museum’s photographic archives and research by Harvard anthropologists, the recently reissued exhibition catalog investigates how anthropologists have employed the camera as a recording and analytic tool, as well as the broader implications of the uses—and misuses—of visual imagery within the human sciences. Melissa Banta, coauthor of the publication, will discuss the history and diversity of the Peabody’s photographic archive and developments in the history of photography since the publication of From Site to Sight.
Free event parking at 52 Oxford Street Garage.
This lecture will not be recorded.
LOCATION:Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20180424T220000Z DTEND:20180424T220000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR