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Tag: Ilisa Barbash
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Arts & Culture
How to examine troubling images
A number of Harvard faculty and experts took part in a discussion last week about how curators and faculty confront the challenges of teaching with and displaying legacy collections of photographs containing difficult subject matter.
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Arts & Culture
Face to face with America’s original sin
Book confronts historical, ethical questions posed by Zealy daguerreotypes.
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Portrait of the documentarian as a young man
“A New England Document” by Che R. Applewhaite ’21 profiles Lorna and Lawrence Marshall and details their extended expeditions with their children to Africa’s Kalahari Desert starting in the 1950s.
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Arts & Culture
Anthropology with a family touch
Eight expeditions to the Kalahari Desert by a Cambridge family in the 1950s yielded more than 40,000 photographs that captured hunter-gatherer cultures on the verge of disappearing. Many of the photos are now on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in a new exhibit, “Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family.”
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Arts & Culture
‘Where the Roads All End’ is where story begins
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology curator Ilisa Barbash talks about her book “Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari.”
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Arts & Culture
An ancient tribe, and change
It is the 50th anniversary of “Dead Birds,” the groundbreaking documentary of a Stone Age tribe that survived into the 20th century. Its creator was Robert Gardner, longtime director of the Film Study Center.
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Arts & Culture
Cowboy’s tale
Husband-and-wife filmmakers chronicle a dying way of life and humanity with their new film “Sweetgrass.”
