Really interesting article incorporating text and photos by Brent Luvaas recently posted at Anthropology News. Short excerpt:
Street photography, notes Magnum photographer Alex Webb, is a practice of harnessing serendipity. Photographers never know what they are going to find when they go out on the streets. They have to stay open to what comes their way and be ready for it when it does. They have to let go of expectations, plan to have no plan. They are, writes Webb, “at the mercy of the world and the world only gives them so much” (Webb and Webb 2014, 56).
Ethnography is like that too. Anthropologists, once out in the field, have to let go of our pre-conceived notions of what our projects will look like or how they will unfold. We have to adapt to the circumstances as they present themselves, go with the flow. Sometimes, we have to disregard our research plans entirely. Designed in front of a computer with the input of advisors and colleagues, the best laid ethnographic plans often fail to conform to the realities of ethnographic research.
Check out the entire article and photos: http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2017/03/10/ethnography-and-street-photography-two-arts-of-serendipity/
BONUS! Sources regarding experimentation of visual + text by G P Witteveen:
SEE2THINK - thinking with pictures: https://see2think.wordpress.com/
ethnographic vignettes: https://anthroviews.blogspot.jp/
Lots of good visual anthropology to explore...
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