Photography For Social Scientists

“The 75 Best LIFE Photos” – Photography could motivate social scientists and philosophers to analyze …
photography for social scientists
typewriter photo by frizztext, click on the image to enter his flickr photo collection
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my top ten impressions of a TIME / LIFE online gallery (in chronological order):
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Sea of Hats: Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1930
2
The American Way: Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1937
3
Airplane Over Manhattan: Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1939
4
Liberation of Buchenwald: Photo by Margaret Bourke-White, 1945
5
Pied Piper of Ann Arbor: Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1950
6
3-D Movie Audience: Photo by J.R. Eyerman, 1952
7
Parting the Sea in Salt Lake City: Photo by J.R. Eyerman, 1958
8
Freedom Riders: Photo by Paul Schutzer, 1961
9
Meeting Peace With Firehoses: Photo by Charles Moore, 1963
10
A Wolf’s Lonely Leap: Photo by Jim Brandenburg, 1986
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About Didi van Frits

writer, photographer, guitarist, painter

16 responses to “Photography For Social Scientists

  1. incaunipocrit

    Reblogged this on The Blogspaper.
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    frizz-comment:
    thank you for reblogging – and keep on reblogging!

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  2. .. photos are beautiful … from incornuciare!
    Through your blog I am discovering a world filled with images … thank you for this honor!
    Dear Good Friend w.e
    vento

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  3. ein(e) sich verlierende(r) beruf(ung) — redakteur — eine wichtige aufgabe, für andere auf- und vorbereiten…
    (ohne sich selbst aufzudrängen…)

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  4. great photo Frizztext, nice!

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  5. I like the coloring of the typewriter and it does look like my old one too. 🙂 TY!

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  6. the lighting is exceptional. great photo, as always!

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  7. I think I learned to type on a typewriter like this back in the early 60s! I am quite sure one of my minister great-uncles used a typewriter like this to write his sermons! But I am sure I never saw all the tones in the keys then as I do now in this incredible photo!

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  8. Old typewriters are wonderful, aren’t they, F.T.?!
    Fantastic image, sir!

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  9. Photographs most definitely but where is all the written correspondence for analysis by social scientists and philosophers?

    Your typewriter glows with dusty beauty!

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    • many photos of Bourke-White are about mass phenomena – a good analysis came by Franz Kafka or ELIAS CANETTI, Karl Jaspers or Martin Heidegger. I tried to picture it with:
      happy METROPOLIS

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