Visualizing Theory Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994 [Paperback]

Visualizing Theoryis a lavishly illustrated collection of provocative essays, occasional pieces, and dialogues that first appeared in Visual Anthropology Reviewbetween 1990 and 1994. It contains contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and film critics and from image makers themselves. Reclaiming visual anthropology as a space for the critical representation of visual culture from the naive realist and exoticist inclinations that have beleaguered practitioners' efforts to date, Visualizing Theoryis a major intervention into this growing field.Editor of V.A.R., Lucien Tayloris a filmmaker and photographer living in Berkeley, California. His two most recent productions, co-directed with Ilisa Barbash, are Made in U.S.A., a film about sweatshops, child labor and homework in the Los Angeles garment industry, and In andOut of Africa, an ethnographic documentary about fakery, taste and racial politics in the African art market.