Posted on 11, Aug 2012

TIME CAPSULES OF KNOWLEDGE

Photographic Archives – Treasure Boxes for Anthropology?
A talk by Alban von Stockhausen

Alban von Stockhausen is an author, anthropologist and photographer who has worked in several international projects on ethnographic images and photographic archives. He curated and co-curated several exhibitions on South Asian topics in different European museums and was awarded a PhD in Visual Anthropology by the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He worked in several international projects on ethnographic images and photographic archives. In this richly illustrated talk, Alban will discuss various ways of creatively using historic image materials for current anthropological research.