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- Title
Saper vedere: il "giro lungo" dell'antropologia visuale.
- Authors
Chiozzi, Paolo
- Abstract
Visual anthropolog y is often identified with 'Ethnographic film', thus the debate focuses more on filming than on ethics of anthropological research. In this paper I suggest a different approach to visual research, where the anthropologist does not abdicate his cultural and 'political' tasks to become a filmmaker, but is aware that he must 'learn' (and teach) how to see human reality. And my long wandering through visual anthropolog y allowed me to realize that one can be a good 'visual' anthropologist even if he does not make himself films or professional photographs - on the contrary I believe that the collaboration between the anthropologist and the photographer is often much more suitable. What we should do, is to interact and collaborate with professional filmmakers and/or photographers who share our own ideas about the 'observation' of humans: not a sort of voyeurism, but an emotional sharing of their memories, of their daily life, of their emotions, of their fears - and of course the awareness that anthropolog y has an intrinsic 'political' involvement. Here my aim is to explain my own approach through some examples of anthropological research based on a tight collaboration with photographers (Davide Virdis, acrhitect and photographer - Stefano Morelli, psychologist and photographer - Mario Chieffo, freelance photographer), and one specific work done involving also a filmmaker, Sandro Nardoni. Those works are actually steps of a route that led me to realize how dangerous the overemphasis of our sense of seeing may be.
- Subjects
ETHNOGRAPHIC films; VISUAL sociology; SOCIOLOGY methodology
- Publication
Societá Mutamento Politica, 2016, Vol 7, Issue 14, p267
- ISSN
2038-3150
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13128/SMP-19706