Brief Biography and Academic Orientation
The numbers in this bio refer to entries from the
publication section of this CV.
I took my graduate degrees at the Annenberg School of Communication at
the University of Pennsylvania. Also studied graduate anthropology at
Tulane Univeristy in New Orleans and film production at the
Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe New Mexico. For the past 30 years,
I have worked in an interdisciplinary manner at Temple University,
combining interests in Communication, Cultural Anthropology, American
Studies and more recently, Asian Studies. Within the past ten years, I
have focused interests on Asian Studies, specifically the visual
culture of modern Japan. Some of this work is mentioned on my home page:
My orientation and perspective have been grounded in a framework
abbreviated as the “How They Look” paradigm. This includes the dual
perspectives of attention to look/appearance and to
see/perception-worldview. One underlying tenet stresses the need to
understand visual culture as intimately connected to other codes and
modes of human communication. In turn, my objective has been to combine
“a cultured eye with an eye of culture.” This pervasive model of visual
culture has been generated from a framework of “culture and visual
communication” and an “anthropology of visual communication.” Within
this context, I have developed and offered courses comparing American
and Japanese visual cultures (Anthro. 64 and 238) and I have been able
to contribute entries to three encyclopedias, in communications (40),
in cultural anthropology (55) and in American Studies (82).
I have consistently advocated the need to undertake fieldwork – to
examine a particular visual phenomenon in situ, as it exists and
operates among ordinary people living their daily lives. Examples of
fieldwork include middle class American families (see Snapshot Versions
of Life (1987), Navajo in Pine Springs, Arizona (see Through Navajo
Eyes (1997), 38), groups of teenagers in Philadelphia (1, 2, 26, 44),
Japanese American families in San Francisco and Gallup, New Mexico (see
Turning Leaves (1991) 37, 52, 54), Japanese living in Tokyo (78. 81,
Book Manuscript in Progress), and most recently, asthma patients at
Boston Children’s hospital (69, 72, 86). All of these examples focus on
the production of visual/pictorial expression within contexts of
culture and communication.
My conviction is that studies of visual culture should not be limited
to domains of public display such as mass media and fine art. In this
regard, my work has been more inclusive than most. I have published on
a broad range of topics within visual culture including examples of
mass media (13), indigenous media (44) and home media. I have examined
a variety of pictorial forms including ethnographic films (57, 70),
feature films (68, 79), children’s filmmaking (1, 2, 12, 26), family
snapshots (25, 28, 31, 58, 64), home movies (4, 9, 27, 33, 34), tourist
photographs (18, 22), and home video (35). Recently, I have initiated a
cross-cultural examination of family home pages and camera-phone usage.
In addition, I have reviewed books about postcards (76), documentary
films (8, 24, 42, 73), visual research methods (80, 84),
photojournalism (43), anthropological photography (51), photography
(30, 74) and photo therapy (5).
Between 1993-95 and in the Spring of 1999, I joined the faculty at
Temple University Japan – and will be offering a summer session in
2004. Japan presents us with a wonderful array of topics and problems
in visual culture. Here I initiated studies of Purikura (Japanese Print
Club photo-stickers (78, 81)), personal snapshots used in Japanese pet
cemeteries (59), and currently, Japanese ghost photography and
“sha-mail” (pictures mailed through mobiles). Some of my own
photography done in Japan e.g. “Traditional Views, a photographic
exhibition from Japan,” can be seen at:
http://astro.temple.edu/~rchalfen/visprod.htm. In addition, I am
two-thirds through writing a new monograph on Japanese Home Media.
Finally let me say that I feel visual culture is an extremely important
area for new research and writing. Three areas stand out for me. First,
past work with Navajo and recent Japanese experiences have convinced me
of the need to further our cross-cultural understandings of visual
culture. Generating ethnographies of visual culture while mediating
logocentic and pictocentric perspectives should have priority in the
exploration of non-Western settings. Questions of how and why the
visual is significant in people’s lives need a fresh start by
addressing how various aspects of visual environment are understood and
valued in ways that may be quite different from our taken-for-granted
assumptions and interpretations. Perhaps more attention is needed to
the problematic meanings generated in response to a broader range of
visual representations.
Mitchell, Mirzoeff and Chapin
all offer us important formulations and starting points. But I see the
need to assert the contributions of anthropology -- including work in
archaeology, biological and linguistic anthropology as well as
socio-cultural components. Perhaps visual anthropology and visual
sociology have been too narrow in this respect, dwelling in the trees
without a sense of the forest. I would like to see an anthropological
concern with culture (past, present and even future) play a more
important role. In short, I am not at all sure we have been asking the
right questions, or that our observational purview has been broad
enough; possibly our starting points have been ethnocentric. Clearly
people related to visual culture in a variety of ways in part based on
socio-cultural backgrounds, experience with mediated forms and the
like. As an anthropologist I want to know more about the various ways
and means that visual culture is related to culture.
In recent years, several
pragmatic concerns have become more central. It occurred to me that
certain applied dimensions of visual research were missing. In this
context, I have been working at Children’s Hospital in Boston on
projects that exploit a fluency and comfort in contemporary visual
culture. Here we have been asking patients to take cameras home to make
videotapes that teach their medical health personnel what it means to
live with a specific ailment – asthma and obesity have been first (62,
69, 72, 2003 in press).
The third and other practical concern relates directly to pedagogy (6,
11, 61). I have been giving more thought to the use of feature films
within the social sciences, specifically related to using films in
classroom teaching (79, 86), within settings where students are already
so embedded in personal and public realms of visual culture. Most
recently, I was appointed a Teaching Fellow in the College of Liberal
Arts for development of electronic demonstration portfolios for our
undergraduate majors in visual anthropology (see 2004, in press)
The visuality of contemporary culture is indeed pervasive. As pictorial
symbolic environments become increasingly dense, work in visual culture
must be built into notions of media socialization, image acculturation
and communicative competence as well as both long term and everyday
survival. It is an exciting place to be.
Full references and
collateral work can be found on my full cv below.
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Curriculum Vitae
RICHARD
M.
CHALFEN
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
(215) 204-1413
richard.chalfen@temple.edu |
RICHARD M. CHALFEN
The Mariner, Unit 204
300 Commercial Street
Boston, MA 02109
(617) 227-1534
|
Education
1974 Ph.D. in Communications, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1967 M.A. in Communications, Annenberg School of Communication,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1964 B.A. in Anthropology, The College, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Positions
2001 |
Associate
Scientific Staff, Department of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts |
2001 |
William
Valentine Cole Chair, Visiting Professor of Sociology/ Anthropology,
Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts |
1997-99 |
Adjunct Professor, Union Institute Graduate College,
Cincinnati, Ohio |
1993-95 |
Professor of Anthropology, Temple University Japan,
Minami-Osawa, Tokyo |
1999 (Fall) |
Professor of Anthropology, Temple University Japan,
Minami-Azabu, Tokyo |
1993-95 |
Visiting
Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, University of
Bologna, Bologna and Viterbo, summer school |
1989 |
Professor
of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
1981-89 |
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Temple University |
1978-81 |
Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Temple University |
1974-81 |
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Temple University |
1972-74 |
Adjunct Faculty & Instructor of Anthropology,
Temple University |
1969-73 |
Research
Associate, Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, associated with the
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry |
1967-69 |
Instructor
in Communications, Department of Literature and Language, Drexel
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
1968-69 |
Bio-Documentary
Film
Consultant, Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania |
1968-69 |
Instructor in Photo-Serigraphy, Cheltenham Art Center,
Philadelphia, PA |
1967-68 |
Film
Research Consultant, Community Mental Health Center, Pennsylvania
Hospital, Philadelphia, PA |
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Publications: Books
1986 |
Tanulmanyok
Az
Amator Foto Visualis Anthropologiajarol.
Budapest: Institute for Culture |
1987 |
Snapshot
Versions
of Life.
Bowling Green, OH: The Popular Press |
1991 |
Turning
Leaves: The Photograph Collections of Two Japanese American Families.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press |
1996 |
Sorrida,
Prego!
La Costruzione visuale della vita quitidiana.
Translation of Snapshot Versions of Life by Andrea Pitasi and Carlotte
Faciolli. Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli Press. |
1997 |
Through
Navajo Eyes--An Exploration in Film Communication and
Anthropology. (revised 2nd edition)
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press (with John Adair and
Sol Worth). |
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Publications: Journal Articles and Book Chapters
(1) 1971 |
Reaction
to
Socio-Documentary Film Research in a Mental Health Clinic (with Jay
Haley). American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry 41(1):91-100. |
(2) 1972a |
How
Groups in Our Society Act When Taught to Use Movie Cameras (with Sol
Worth), Chapter 15 in Through
Navajo Eyes -- An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp.
228-251. |
(3) 1972b |
A
Sociovidistic Approach to Film Communication: Theory, Methods and
Suggested Fieldwork. Proceedings
of the Oberlin Film Conference,
Oberlin, Ohio, pp. 36-60. |
(4) 1973 |
Cinema
Naiveté: A Sociovidistic Approach to the Home Mode of
Visual Communication. PIEF
Newsletter 4(3):7-11. |
(5) 1974a |
Review
of Akeret's Photoanalysis. Studies
in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 1(1):57-60. |
(6) 1974b |
The
Teaching of Visual Anthropology at Temple (with Jay Ruby). SAVC Newsletter 5(3):5-7. |
(7) 1975a |
Introduction
to the Study of Non-Professional Photography as Visual
Communication, Folklore Forum 13:19-25. |
(8) 1975b |
Review:
Ricky and Rocky (film). American
Anthropologist 77(2):466-69. |
(9) 1975c |
Cinema
Naivete: A Study of Home Moviemaking as Visual Communication, Studies in the Anthropology of Visual
Communication 2(2): 87-103. Also as:
Cinéma Naiveté: A Csaladi filmezés mint vizualis
kommunikacio. Tanulmanyok Az
Amator Foto Visualis Anthropologiajarol (1986), Budapest: Institute for Culture. |
(10) 1976 |
Studies
in the Home Mode of Visual Communication. Working Papers in Culture and Communication 1(2):39-61. |
(11) 1977a |
Human
Images: Teaching the Communication of Ethnography. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 8(1):8-11. |
(12) 1977b |
Perspectives
on Children's Filmmaking: The Minnewaska Symposium. Film
Library Quarterly 10(1-2):60-65. Appeared as Working Paper No. 23.
Bericht von einem Symposium uber von Kindern gedrehte Filme, for the
1977 International Conference on Youth and Film, Ludwigshaften, Germany. |
(13) 1978a |
Which
Way Media Anthropology? Journal
of Communication 28(3):208 -214. |
(14) 1978b |
Review:
Growing Up at Paradise (film). American
Anthropologist 80(3):765-766. |
(15) 1978c |
Review:
City Families--London and Chicago. Studies
in the Anthropology of Visual
Communication 5(1):63-65. |
(16) 1979a |
Obituary:
Sol Worth 1922-1977. American
Anthropologist 81(1): 91-93. |
(17) 1979b |
The
Contributions of Sol Worth to Visual Anthropology. Temple University Working Papers in Culture and
Communication 2(2):2-20. |
(18) 1979c |
Photography's
Role in Tourism: Some Unexplored Relationships. Annals of Tourism Research 6(4):435-447. |
(19) 1979d |
Review:
Our Kind of People--American Groups and Rituals. American Anthropologist 81(2):476-477. |
(20) 1979e |
Review:
When Two or More are Gathered Together. American Anthropologist 81(2):476-477. |
(21) 1979f |
Review:
A Wedding in the Family (film). American
Anthropologist 81(1):210. |
(22) 1980a |
Tourist
Photography. Afterimage 8(1&2):26-29. Also as:
Fényképezo Turistak. Tanulmanyok
A:
Amator Foto Vizualis Anthropologiajarol
(1986), Budapest: Institute for Culture. |
(23) 1980b |
Review:
A Paradigm for Looking--Cross Cultural Research with Visual
Media. Journal of Communication 30(1):237, 239. |
(24) 1980c |
Review:
Home Movie--An American Folk Art (film). Journal of American Folklore 93(368):245-246. |
(25) 1981a |
Redundant
Imagery:
Some Observations on the Use of Snapshots in American Culture. Journal of
American Culture 4(1):106-113. Also
as: Bobeszédu Képek: Megfigyelések Az Amerikai
Kultura Fényképhasznalatarol. Tanulmanyok Az Amator Foto Vizualis
Anthropologiajorol (1986), Budapest:
Institute for Culture. |
(26) 1981b |
A
Sociovidistic Approach to Children's Filmmaking: The Philadelphia
Project. Studies in Visual
Communication 7(1):2-33. |
(27) 1982 |
Home
Movies as Cultural Documents. Film/Culture:
Explorations
of Cinema in Its Social Context. Sari
Thomas (ed.), Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow
Press, pp. 126-138. Also as: A Csaldi Film mint Kulturalis Documentum. Tanulmanyok Az Amatar Foto Vizualis
Anthropologiajarol (1986), Budapest:
Institute for Culture. |
(28) 1983 |
Exploiting
the Vernacular: Studies in Snapshot Photography. Studies in Visual Communication 9(3):70-84. Also as Benszulott Tajak:
Tanulmanyok Az Amator Fényképrol. Tanulmanyok Az Amator Foto Vizualis
Anthropologiajarol (1986), Budapest:
Institute for Culture. |
(29) 1984a |
Tribute
to Richard Cross, 1950-1983. SAVICOM
Newsletter 11(2): 9-11. |
(30) 1984b |
Review:
The
New Photography. Studies in
Visual Communication 10(3):89-91. |
(31) 1984c |
The
Sociovidistic Wisdom of Abby and Ann: Toward an Etiquette of Home Mode
Photography. Journal of American
Culture 7(1-2):22-31. Also as: Abby
és Ann Szociovidisztikua Bolesessége: A Csaladi
Fényképezés Etikettjének
Kérdésehez. Tanulmanyok
Az
Amator Foto Vizualis Anthropologiajarol
(1986), Budapest: Institute for Culture. |
(32) 1985 |
An
Alternative to an Alternative--Comment on Uzzell. Annals of Tourism Research 11(3):103-106. |
(33) 1986a |
Home
Movies in a World of Reports: An Anthropological Appreciation. Journal of the University Film and Video
Association 38 (3-4):102-110. |
(34) 1986b |
Media
Myopia and Genre-Centrism: The Case of Home Movies. Journal of the University Film and Video
Association 38 (3-4): 58-62. |
(35) 1988a |
Home
Video Versions of Life--Anything New? Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter 4(1):1-5. |
(36) 1988b |
Creating
DIVA: A Video Journal--A Call for Response. Commission on Visual Anthropology Newsletter, May, pp. 44-48. |
(37) 1988c |
Japanese
American Family Photography: A Brief Report of Research on
Home Mode Communication in Cross-Cultural Contexts. Visual Sociology Review 3(2):12-16. |
(38) 1988d |
Navajo
Filmmaking Revisited: Problematic Interactions. Native North American Interaction Patterns, Regna Darnell and Michael Foster (eds.),
Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, Canadian Ethnology Service,
Mercury Series Paper 112, pp. 168-185. |
(39) 1988e |
Selective
Index of Visual Anthropology Newsletters--1970-1983 (with
Anja Dalderup). Society for Visual
Anthropology Newsletter 4(2):34-40. |
(40) 1989a |
Photography:
As Amateur Medium. The
International Encyclopedia of Communications, New York: Oxford University Press, 3:281-5. |
(41) 1989b |
Review:
Beyond Words--Images from America's Concentration Camps. Visual Anthropology 1(4):478-81. |
(42) 1989c |
Review:
Family Gathering (film). American
Anthropologist 91(2):525-27. |
(43) 1989d |
Review:
Bordertowns. American
Anthropologist 91(4):1085-86. |
(44) 1989e |
Native
Participation in Visual Studies: From Pine Springs to
Philadelphia. Eyes Across the Water, Robert M. Boonzajer Flaes (ed.), Amsterdam: Het
Spinhuis, pp. 71-79. |
(45) 1990 |
Review:
Consider Anything, Only Don't Cry and A Song of Air (films). Visual Anthropology 4(1):92-95. |
(46) 1992a |
Picturing
Culture Through Indigenous Imagery: A Telling Story. Film As Ethnography, Peter Crawford and David Turton (eds.),
Manchester: University of Manchester Press, pp. 222-241. |
(47) 1992b |
Review
of 1992 Manchester Conference. Anthropology
Newsletter, (December) 33(9):15. |
(48) 1993a |
Reviewing
DIVA: A Video Journal for Visual Anthropology. The 1992 Yearbook for Visual Anthropology (Paolo Chiozzi, ed.), pp. 101-15. |
(49) 1993b |
Visual
Sociology Conference in Bologna. Anthropology
Newsletter (September) 34(6): 45-6. |
(50) 1993c |
Fotografia
e Turismo. Sociologia
Urbana e Rurale, F. Angeli Publisher,
Milan, 15(41): 27-41 (translation of: Photography's Role in Tourism:
Some Unexplored Relationships, Annals
of
Tourism Research 6(4): 435- 447
(1979). |
(51) 1994 |
Review:
Anthropology and Photography. Man 29(2):
484-5. |
(52) 1995a |
Japanese
American Family Photography. Sensei 1(2): 25-29 (revision of 1988c).
|
(53) 1995b |
Preface.
Sorrida,
Prego! La
Costruzione visuale della vita quitidiana. (Italian translation of Snapshot Versions of Life) Milan: FrancoAngeli. |
(54) 1995c |
L'Album
dei Ricordi Studio de Anthropologia Visual dei Giapponesi
d'America. Sociologia Urbana e
Rurale, 17(46): 27-41 (translation of
1988c "Japanese American Family Photography: A Brief Report of Research
on Home Mode Communication in Cross-Cultural Contexts"). |
(55) 1996a |
Photography.
The
Encyclopedia of
Cultural Anthropology, edited by
David Levinson and Melvin Ember, New York: Henry Holt and Co., pp.
926-31. |
(56) 1996b |
Foreword.
'Appropriating
Images':
The Semiotics of Visual Anthropology
by Keyan Tomaselli, Hoejbjetg, Denmark: Intervention Press. |
(57) 1996c |
Review
of
Lesotho
Herders Video Project
by Chuck Scott in Visual Anthropology
9(1): 85-.87. |
(58) 1997a |
Family
Photography: One Album is Worth a 1000 Lies. Sociology -- Exploring the Architecture of
Everyday Life 2/e by David M.
Newuman, Thousand Oaks, CA.: Pine Forge Press, pp. 269-78. |
(59) 1997b |
Il caso di “Doubutsu no Haka no Shashin”: le
fotografie nei cimiteri giapponesi per animali domestici. Proceedings,
("I sentieri della sociologia visuale"), International Visual Sociology
Association Meetings, Bologna, Italy, pp. 273-284.
|
(60) 1998a |
Interpreting
Family Photography as Pictorial Communication. Image- based Research: A Sourcebook for
Qualitative Researchers, Jon Prosser,
ed. London: Falmer Press Ltd., pp. 214-234. |
(61) 1998b |
Presenting
Images. IVSA
(International Visual Sociology) Newsletter (with John Grady) Spring, pp. 5-6. |
(62) 1998c |
Video
Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA): An Innovative
Methodology for Understanding the Adolescence Illness Experience (with
M. Rich and S. Lamola) in Journal
of Adolescent Health 22:128. |
(63) 1998d |
Film
Review of Hello Photo by Nina Davenport (1994) AEMS News and Reviews 1(1): 8, 11 and as
http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/~cem/CEM/reviews/chalfen.html |
(64) 1998e |
Family
Photograph Appreciation: Dynamics of Medium, Interpretation and
Memory. Communication and Cognition 31(2-3): 161-78. |
(65) 1998f |
Review
of Rethinking Visual
Anthropology edited by M. Banks and
H. Morphy for Visual Sociology 13(1): 71-2. |
(66) 1999a |
Is
Krippendorf’s Tribe Bad for Teaching Anthropology? As usual, it all
depends. Teaching Anthropology
Newsletter 33 (Fall): 2-3. |
(67) 1999b |
Film
Review of Hello Photo by Nina Davenport (1994). Education About Asia (Winter), p. 74. |
(68) 1999c |
Why
Krippendorf’s Tribe is Good for Teaching Anthropology. Visual Anthropology Review 14:103-5 (with Sam Pack). |
(69) 1999d |
Showing
and Telling Asthma: Children Teaching Physicians with Visual
Narratives. Visual Sociology 14: 51-71 (with Michael Rich). |
(70) 1999e |
Film
Review of Makiko’s New World by David Plath (1999), American Anthropologist 101(3): 639-40. Also as:
http://approd.com/mpg.html |
(71) 1999f |
John
Adair 1913-1987: Work Across the Anthropological Spectrum. Journal of Anthropological Research 55: 429-445 (with Clifford R. Barnett, James
Faris, Katherine Halpern, Susan McGreevy, Willow Powers). |
(72) 2000a |
Illness
as a Social Construct: Understanding What Asthma Means to the
Patient to Better Treat the Disease. Journal on Quality Improvement 26(5): 244-53 (with Michael Rich and Stacy
Taylor). |
(73) 2000b |
Film
Review of The Last
Vaudevillian: On the Road with Travelogue Filmmaker John Holod by Jeffrey Ruoff (1998). Visual Anthropology Review 15 (1): 99-100. |
(74) 2000c |
Old
Japan, New Media. CD-ROM Review of Memories
of
Japan 1859- 1875 -- Japanese Photography in Dutch Collections. In the AEMS
Review (Asian Educational Media
Service), 3(2): 6-7. |
(75) 2000d |
Video
Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA): A Patient- Centered
Methodology for Understanding the Adolescence Illness Experience. Journal of Adolescent Health 27: 155-165 (with M. Rich, S. Lamola and J.
Gordon). |
(76) 2001a |
Review
of Delivering Views –
Distant Cultures in Early Postcards
(Christraud M. Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb (eds.) Visual Anthropology 41(1): 113-5. |
(77) 2001b |
Go
Web Young Man! Liberating the Snapshot. The Globe and Mail, Supplement, March 24, p. E4. |
(78) 2001c |
Print
Club Photography in Japan: Framing Social Relationships. Visual Sociology (with Mai Murui), 16(1): 55-73. |
(79) 2001d |
Hollywood
Films in Class: The Case of Mr. Baseball. In the AEMS Review
(Asian Educational Media Service), 4(4): 1-3. |
(80) 2001e |
Review
of Researching the Visual (Emmison and Smith). Visual Sociology 16(1): 101-03. |
(81) 2001f |
Print
Club in Giappone: frame che rappresentano frame. In In Altre Parole – Idee per una sociologia della
comunicazione visuale, ed. Patrizia
Faccioli, Milan, Italy: FrancoAngeli, pp. 219-52 (with Mai Murui). |
(82) 2001g |
Photography:
Amateur and Home Photography, In the Encyclopedia of American Studies, (Grolier) 3:314-316. |
(83) 2002a |
Review
of Visual Methods in Social
Research by Marcus Banks in Visual Studies
17(1).: 77-8. |
(84) 2002b |
Commentary:
Hearing What is Shown and Seeing What is Said. Narrative Inquiry 12(2): 397-404. |
(85) 2002c |
Snapshots
‘R’ Us: The Evidentiary Problematic of Home Media. In Visual Studies
17(2): 141-49. |
(86) 2002d |
Visual
Illness Narratives of Asthma: Explanatory Models and
Health-Related Behavior. (with Jennifer Patashnick and Michael Rich) The American Journal of Health Behavior 26(6): 442-453. |
(87) 2003 |
Studying Japan
with Hollywood Films: Showing Mr. Baseball in Class. Education about Asia 8(1): 33-36. |
Publications in Press
2003 |
Review:
Seeing is
Believing – Handicams, Human Rights and the News
by Katerina Cizek and Peter Wintonick. VAR (Visual
Anthropology Review). |
2003 |
Hollywood
Makes
Anthropology – The Case of Krippendorf’s Tribe.
for Visual Anthropology 16:4. |
2003 |
Celebrating
Life
After Death: The Appearance of Snapshots in Japanese Pet
Gravesites, for Visual Studies. 18(2): 143-155. |
2003 |
Print
Club
Photography in Japan: Framing Social Relationships.
Visual
Sociology (with Mai Murui) to be
reprinted in Photographs, Objects,
Histories edited by Elizabeth Edwards
(Routledge). |
2003 |
The
Worth/Adair Navajo Experiment – Unanticipated Results and Reactions.” Memories of the Origins of Visual Anthropology edited by Beate Engelbrecht (Peter Lang
Publishers, Frankfurt/M., New York, Bern and Brussels), |
2003 |
“How
Do We Look?" Home Media as Pictorial Evidence, For Visible Evidence, Jon Prosser, ed. |
2004 |
Electronic
Demonstration
Portfolios for Visual Anthropology Majors. For Journal of Educational Media. |
Publications in Preparation
2003 |
Review:
An American
Family by Jeffrey Ruoff. For Visual Anthropology. |
2004 |
The
Problematic Location and Logic of Meta-Pictures in Everyday
Photojournalism. For Visual
Communication Quarterly. |
2004 |
Home
Media Convergence in Japan. For Visual
Studies. |
2004 |
Applying Visual
Research: Patients Teaching Physicians about Asthma through Video
Diaries. For Visual Anthropology
Review (VAR). |
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Reports:
1979 |
A
Study of Polavision and Home Moviemaking. Commissioned and prepared for
the Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, Mass. |
1984 |
Development
of
Video Exchange. Prepared for Mellon Foundation and the Center for
Development of the Liberal Arts. |
1985 |
Handbook for Video Exchange Procedures. Prepared for the Mellon Foundation and the
Center for Development of the Liberal Arts, Temple University. |
1992 |
Impact
of
Electronics on the Youth Market. Commissioned and prepared for the
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York. |
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Invited
Lectures
and Colloquia:
Papers have been presented at:
The Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, the
American Culture Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, the
Midwest American Culture Association, the International Visual
Sociology Association.
Invited lectures
have been given at:
Teachers College, Columbia University; Anthropology and Communications
Departments, Ohio State University; Visual Scholars Program, University
of Iowa; Anthropology Colloquium, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Anthropology Clubs, West Chester State College, Pennsylvania and
Burlington County College, New Jersey; International Center for
Photography, New York; Japanese American Culture and Community Center,
Los Angeles, California; Lowie Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley,
California; Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania;
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania; Department of
Sociology, University of Bologna; Department of Sociology, University
of Padowa; Department of Photography, Maryland Institute of Art;
Department of Sociology, Boston University; Harvard Graduate School of
Education; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL.; Konan
University, Kobe, Japan.
Invited papers have been read during:
The Conference on Visual Anthropology, Philadelphia; the Conference on
Film as Ethnography, Manchester, U.K.; the Conference on Visual
Sociology and Visual Anthropology, Amsterdam; Conference on Culture and
Communication, Philadelphia; the Conference on Native American
Interaction Patterns, University of Alberta; the Conference on American
Indian Images on Film, University of New Mexico; Symposium on
Child-Made Films, New Paltz, N.Y., Oberlin Film Conference, Oberlin,
Ohio, the Japanese Popular Culture Conference, Victoria, British
Columbia, CA.; Center for Literary and Cultural Studies (with Michael
Rich), Harvard University,
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Grants Received and Fieldwork
2002 |
Recipient,
CLA
Research Incentive Fund, Temple University –
“Digital Living.” |
2002 |
Principal
Investigator,
Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University --
“Hashiguchi George as Visual Social Scientist.” |
2001 |
Recipient,
Experiential
Learning Task Force -- Temple University: “Incorporating
Experiential Learning into Visual Anthropology.” |
2000 |
Recipient,
Faculty
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Temple University --
“Hashiguchi George as Visual Social Scientist.” |
1999 |
Co-Investigator,
Eastman
Kodak Company -- "Strategies of Storytelling through American
Family Photograph Collections" ($22,000), with Sam Pack. |
1998 |
Grant-in-Aid
of
Research, Temple University -- “Print Club as Japanese Popular
Culture.” |
1996 |
Principal
Investigator,
Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University --
"Japanese Family Photography as Visual Communication." |
1996 |
Recipient, Faculty Grant-in-Aid of Research,
Temple University -- "Japanese Family Photography as Visual
Communication." |
1993,
94 |
Principal
Investigator,
Center for East Asian Studies, Temple University
"Japanese Family Photography as Visual Communication" ($4,300). |
1992 |
Principal
Investigator,
Eastman Kodak Company -- "The Impact of Electronics on
Youth Segments" ($36,000). |
1989 |
Principal
Investigator,
Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University-- "A
Critical Examination of Film Reviews Published in the American
Anthropologist, 1965-85." |
1988 |
Recipient,
Faculty
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Temple University -- "Completion of
Monograph on Japanese American Photography." |
1985 |
Recipient,
Mellon
Grant, Center for Development of the Liberal Arts, Temple
University -- "Video Exchange Handbook." |
1984a |
Recipient,
Faculty
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Temple University -- "Tourist
Development Interviews." |
1984b |
Recipient,
Course
Development Grant, Media Learning Center, Temple University --
"Anthropological Problems in Visual Production." |
1983 |
Principal Investigator, Summer Research
Fellowship, Temple University--"The Development of a Tourist Community:
An Ethnohistorical Reconstruction." |
1981a |
Recipient,
National
Science Foundation Science Faculty Professional Development
Grant, SPI-8165005 -- "Social Science Film Production" ($29,600). |
1981b |
Principal
Investigator,
Research Incentive Fund, Temple University-- "Pilot Study
for an Ethnography of Navajo Film Communication" ($1,278). |
1979a |
Recipient,
Course
Development Grant, Temple University-- "Sociovidistics." |
1979b |
Principal
Investigator,
Polaroid Corporation. "A Study of Polavision and Home
Moviemaking" ($7,200). |
1978a |
Principal
Investigator,
Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University --
"Completion of a Research Documentary entitled: Context Film: The
Navajo Film Themselves." |
1978b |
Recipient,
Faculty
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Temple University -- "Completion of
Research Film" ($1,550). |
1978c |
Co-Principal
Investigator,
Research Incentive Fund Grant, Temple University --
"Pilot Study of an Ethnography of Visual Communication" (with Jay Ruby). |
1975 |
Principal
Investigator,
Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University -- "Towards
Ethnographies of Visual Communication." |
1970-73 |
Principal
Investigator,
National Institute of Mental Health grant no.
S-R01-MH17521-01,02,03 ($55,583.00). "Exploring Social Perception with
Film" administrated by the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic. |
1966-67 |
Research
Assistant,
National Science Foundation grant nos. GS 1038 and GS 1759.
"The Use of Film in Cross-Cultural Communication." |
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Visual Production:
Filmmaking: |
1973 |
Produced
and
edited First Footage: Four
Female Groups (40 min) and First Footage: Two Male Groups (21 min) -- two 16mm black and white films that
illustrate comparative findings of socio-documentary film research with
Philadelphia teenagers. |
1967-72 |
Organized
and
directed groups of Philadelphia teenagers in their production of
16mm black and white sound films: What
We
Do On Saturdays On Our Spare Time, The Robbery, Don't Make
A Good Girl Go Bad, WPFG-MI, God and The Life of Man. |
1966 |
Wrote,
directed
and photographed a 16mm black and white sound film entitled For Ages 10 to Adult (with Ben Achtenberg). |
Photoserigraphy: |
1967,68 |
One
man show, Annenberg School of Communication, University of
Pennsylvania, Fall. |
1968 |
Group
show,
Cheltenham Art Centre, Spring. |
Photography: |
1966 |
Group
Show,
West Philadelphia Free Library. |
1965 |
One
man show, Dennis Playhouse, Dennis, Mass. |
1998 |
“Traditional
Views.”
One man show, Richard Cross Gallery, Temple University,
Philadelphia, Penna. and as:
http://astro.temple.edu/~rchalfen/visprod.html |
2000 |
“Traditional Views.” Group show, Harvard Project
Zero, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
World
Wide
Web Authoring: |
1998 |
Web Home Page:
http://astro.temple.edu/~rchalfen |
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Media Participation:
Magazines,
newspapers: |
“A Different
Take on Home Movies: Capturing Family Traumas on Film” by Jeffrey
Zaslow, The Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2003. |
“Mr. Professor”
by Mai Murui, RyugakUSA, Vol. 43, April, 1998 (in Japanese). |
"Memories --
Visual Anthropology: 'the upside of life"' by Robert Brothers' Temple Times,
December 18, 1986. |
"Smile, Yankee,
and wave your hamburger" by Dick Pothier, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 1, 1981. |
"Snapshots
Provide Study of Culture" by Debra Voisin, Albuquerque Journal (North), March 6, 1982. |
"Home Movies:
Biased Glimpses of Life" by Lewis Beale, Temple University Alumni Review 29(1):19-22, Summer, 1978. |
"Home Movies
Show More Than You See" by Paul Jablow, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 12, 1976. |
"Story of
American Culture Found in Family Pictures" by Robert Salgado, The Sunday Bulletin (Philadelphia), May 12, 1974. |
Radio Interviews: |
“Print Club
Popularity in Japan.” InterFm, with Kyle Cleveland, Tokyo, Japan,
January 19, 2002 |
“Deep Thoughts
on Home Pictures” on “This Morning Show” with Dick Gordon, CBC-Toronto,
January 7, 2000. |
"Kodak Culture
as Popular Culture" on Charlie Hardy's Popular Culture Show (funded by
the Pennsylvania Humanities Council), WUHY, June 3, 1981. |
"The
First Philadelphia Home Movie Festival" on Fresh Air, UUHY, December
16, 1975. |
Video Interviews:
|
"Anthropology
and
Home Media: The U.S. and Japan" at the National Institute of Media
Education, Chiba, Japan, April 11, 1995. |
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Professional Activity:
Associate
Editor, Visual Studies, 2001- |
Founder, Editor
of
Sensei: Temple University Japan Faculty Publication,
1994-95. |
President,
Society for Visual Anthropology, 1989-91
(President-Elect, 1988-89). |
Member, Board
of
Directors, American Anthropological Association, 1989-91. |
Member, Commission
on
Visual Anthropology, IUAES, 1986 present. |
Contributing
Editor for the Society for Visual Anthropology (monthly column),
Anthropology
Newsletter, August, 1988-90. |
Jury Member,
Society for Visual Anthropology Film and
Video Festival, American Anthropology Association, 1988-89, 1991-92. |
Member, Board
of Directors, Society for Visual Anthropology, March,
1986-92. |
Staff
Anthropologist, The Japanese American Family Album Project,
National Endowment for the Humanities, Museum Exhibitions Project,
1985-87. |
Jury Member,
Fiction Films, American Film Festival,
1985. |
Panelist,
Media Grants, National Endowment for the
Humanities, 1984, 1985. |
Staff
Anthropologist, The Japanese American Family Album Project,
The Japanese American Culture and Community Center, Los Angeles,
1982-1983. |
Advisory Board,
Society for the Anthropology of Visual
Communication,
1982-1986. |
Research
Associate, Anthropology Film Center, 1981-83. |
Director and
Coordinator, Master of Arts Program in Visual Anthropology,
Department of Anthropology, Temple University, 1980-91; Co-Director,
1992-5. |
Editor,
Working Papers in Culture and Communication, 1976-82. |
Book Review
Editor, Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication,
January
1977-October 1979. |
Consulting
Editor, Studies in Visual Communication, September
1979-1985. |
Director,
The First Philadelphia Home Movie Festival, Temple University, March
11, 1976. |
Co-Director,
Conference on Culture and Mass Communication,
Temple
University, Philadelphia, March 22-24, 1979. |
Director,
Conference on Culture and Communication,
Temple University, Philadelphia, March 13-15, 1975. |
Secretary-Treasurer,
Society for the Anthropology of Visual
Communication, 1972-74. |
Assistant
Editor, Program in Ethnographic Film Newsletter, 1973-74. |
Assistant
Director, Conference on Visual Anthropology, Temple
University, Philadelphia, March 1974. |
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Association Memberships:
American Anthropological
Association
Society for Visual Anthropology
International Visual Sociology Association
Japan Society of Boston
New England Association of Asian Studies
December, 2003
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