Richard ChalfenRichard Chalfen, Ph.D., is currently Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Temple University (Philadelphia and Tokyo). He served as Senior Scientist at the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and held te William Valentine Cole Chair as Visiting Professor of Sociology/Anthropology at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts. He taught four summer school sessions for the University of Bologna and taught visual anthropology and Japanese Visual Culture at Temple University Japan in Tokyo. Chalfen's published books include Snapshot Versions of Life (1987), The Popular Press/The University of Wisconsin Press; Turning Leaves: The Photograph Collections of Two Japanese American Families (1991), University of New Mexico Press; Through Navajo Eyes-An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology (1997), University of New Mexico Press (with John Adair and Sol Worth); Visual Research Methods and Issues of Voice (2010), Special Issue of Visual Studies 25(3) (co-edited with Wendy Luttrell); and Photogaffes - Family Snapshots and Social Dilemmas (2012), Dog Ear Publishing. He is past Chair of the Anthropology Department at Temple, past president of the American Anthropological Association's Society of Visual Anthropology and received the Society of Visual Anthropology's Lifetime Achievement Award. Read More Read Less