John Collier Jr.

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John Collier Jr.
Born	May 22, 1913 Sparkill, New York
Died	February 25, 1992 (1992-02-26) (aged 78) San José, Costa Rica
Scientific career
Fields	Photography, Visual anthropology
Institutions	Standard Oil Company Cornell University San Francisco State University
Notes
Collier's photographs are archived at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology.

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John Collier Jr. (May 22, 1913 – February 25, 1992) was an American anthropologist and an early leader in the fields of visual anthropology and applied anthropology. His emphasis on analysis and use of still photographs in ethnography led him to significant contributions in other subfields of anthropology, especially the applied anthropology of education. His book, Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method (1967) is one of the earliest textbooks in the field. His photographs are archived at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.^[1]