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  Thursday  February 26  2004    09: 23 AM

photoethnography

This is a wonderful source of photoethnography links courtesy of Karen Nakamura at Photoethnography.com.

Fixing Shadows
Still Photography

 

 
Fixing shadows consists of a set of pages devoted to photographic topics including the work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value. We also want to develop pages devoted to family photography and to miscellaneous "found" photographs that catch our fancy.
 

 
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Here is an example of what can be found Fixing Shadows...

Marion Post Wolcott

 

 
When I took the FSA job, I already had battle scars. I had weathered…the first weeks as a female full-time staff photographer on the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin…The ten male photographers with whom I was to work, immediately put out their cigarette butts in my developer, spit in and hypoed it, probably peed in it; threw spit balls into my cubby-hole darkroom until my aim and speed became better than theirs. Finally, I exploded—telling them I was there to stay…I told them how and when I could be very useful to them, and that I needed their help in return; that they could teach me about a Speed Graphic and how to develop and print for a newspaper, that they could openly use their accustomed language and the four-letter words which I’d heard and used, and would welcome the opportunity to feel free to use them myself, again. That did it; we reached a truce…soon each one confidentially telling me that the others were wolves and he was going to be my protector.
 

 


On Assignment up South Fork of Kentucky River, Breathitt County,
MPW's Borrowed Car in Creek, Pulled up by Mule. Kentucky, September, 1940

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