Study of Visual Culture

Margaret Mead was a pioneer in the use of film and photography to analyze culture and society. She took film and still cameras to the field and produced a series of ethnographic documents that still rank as classics. This volume collects many of her writings on visual culture together in one volume for the first time.

Margaret Mead was a pioneer in the use of film and photography to analyze culture and society. She took film and still cameras to the field and produced a series of ethnographic documents that still rank as classics. This volume collects many of her writings on visual culture together in one volume for the first time. The book includes the full text and pictures of her remarkable collaboration with Paul Byers, published as The Small Conferences, articles from the architectural journal Ekistics, and commentary on her own films.