Gypsies, photographic representation and the media: an anthropological interpretation
Friday 1 February, 1pm
Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre, off Robinson Close
Judith Okely, Hull University/Research Affiliate of SAME
Cameras were rare among English Gypsies in the 1970s. However, professional photographers, mainly from local newspapers, apparently gained sufficient trust to record multiple, one-off Gypsy images, and some were retrieved from now-closed offices near my fieldwork localities. The photographs were invariably of individuals known from Gypsy sites where I had co-resided. Ultimately, experience from extensive fieldwork can reveal in outsiders’ photographs, alternative, even contradictory perspectives hidden from the professional gaze.
VMMA-Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar Series Hilary 2019
Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre (off Robinson Close)