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South End's new green space


Well, I finished reading Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method. I have a 1967 edition so the book is far from being politically correct and that’s fine. The problem is that it also describes things that are unethical today and I am sure were unethical in 1967 as well. Deceiving your subjects because you are too lazy and too arrogant to figure out how to take their pictures honestly is just plain wrong. Also, the cultural and class bias of the authors is astounding. Describing a photographic study of homes of Native Americans who were forced (or have chosen) to live in a typical urban environment the author says:

This home ranks 1, the lowest of our 22 households in regard to quality and condition of furnishings. [The furnishings are] “mostly serviceable but graceless, utility more important than style.”

…The inventory of the Pomo I home reflects real poverty in the very limited value of artifacts visible in the home. The failure of the Pomo wife, who has had no schooling at all, to achieve the vocational skill necessary for living urban area is expressed, directly, through the ineptitudes of domesticity.

Anyways, this photo was taken today at the tip of the South End peninsula. Conservative MP wannabe arranged a photo op with a local activist (without her realizing that’s what it was I should add) to promote a new addition to the South End’s green space. That is really a good news and he is actually a good guy unfortunately running for a wrong party ;-) The photographer works for the local daily.



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