Inuit
The research on the field consists in switching from the personal experience to the paper redaction, so the ethnographer witness and produce the information about social and cultural process. In the first article I hinted this topic talking about Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski.
Read MoreLa ricerca sul campo consiste nel passaggio dall’esperienza personale alla creazione di documentazione; l’etnografo è dunque un testimone e produttore di documenti che contengono informazioni nuove sui processi sociali e culturali. Nell’articolo iniziale avevo accennato della ricerca sul campo parlando di Franz Boas e Bronislaw Malinowski. [...]
Read MoreThis picture was shooted at @Canadian Centre Cultuerl in @Paris during Stan Douglas’ photographic exhibition called “Abandonment and Spledour”
It’s 1996 in an Inuit Church in Yuqout, this photo is part of Nootka Sound series. The exposition presents other five series of ruins’ images, due to their brutal state of place. Their own history is evoked by their images, which have as common characteristics the suspension, it seems time stopped after shooting.
Stan Douglas puts together past and present in one unique time which it is never began nor ended. He collects everything humans left behind, in this case the colonial influence, which transformed indigenous between modern and progressist standard. The abandoned places in the pictures evoke lost population and culture, gave in to the most powerful.
[...] Parigi al Centro Culturale Canadese in occasione della mostra fotografica di Stan Douglas intitolata “Abbandono e splendore”. [...]
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