Richard Chalfen

Biographic Data

ID3605861
NAMERichard Chalfen
GIVEN NAMESRichard
FAMILY NAMEChalfen
SIGNATURECHALFEN R
AFFILIATIONSTemple University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS146
AUTHOR COUNT61
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • Learning from photogaffes: A Primer for Home Mode Visual Culture

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEInternational Review of Sociology2023References: 8

    This paper introduces the notion of ‘Photogaffe’ in the context of an applied visual anthropology. Focus is placed on examples of ordinary people causing unforeseen social problems with their cameras and/or pictures as part of family photography and related home media. Paper suggests changing an attention from seeking meaning in picture content to meanings in the social acts responsible for the communication process. The vehicle is a collection o…

  • Looking Two Ways: Mapping the Social Scientific Study of Visual Culture

    Richard ChalfenCHAPTERThe Sage Handbook of Visual…2020

  • Showing off! A philosophy of image by Jorella Andrews

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2017

    Jorella Andrews offers an approach to visual culture that privileges issues of perception and display, both as part of understanding relationships between seeing, being seen and self-showing. Andre

  • Seeing ourselves through technology – How we use selfies, blogs, and wearable devices to see and shape ourselves by Jill Walker Rettberg

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2016

    Author Jill Rettberg offers readers a nicely organised two-by-three framework for presenting three distinct modes of self-representation, each with its own pre-digital history and current digital e

  • Snapshot photography: The lives of images by Catherine Zuromskis

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2016

    Snapshot photography: the lives of images by Catherine Zuromskis." Visual Studies, 31(2), pp. 157–158

  • Ubiquitous Photography by Martin Hand

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2016

    I was drawn to Martin Hand’s book for several important reasons. The first was the author’s attention to the contemporary landscape of visual communication and culture and his concern with how the

  • Your panopticon or mine?' Incorporating wearable technology's Glass and GoPro into visual social science

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2014Cited by: 13References: 7

    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe author is grateful to John Grady and Jon Wagner for early readings and their constructive comments

  • Bicycles: Vintage people on photo postcards Readers: Vintage people on photo postcards Women & hats: Vintage people on photo postcards Weddings: Vintage people on photo postcards

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2013

  • Looking Two Ways: Mapping the Social Scientific Study of Visual Culture

    Richard ChalfenCHAPTERThe SAGE Handbook of Visual…2011

  • Differentiating Practices of Participatory Visual Media Production

    Richard ChalfenCHAPTERThe SAGE Handbook of Visual…2011

  • Visual cultures

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2011

  • Doing family photography: The domestic, the public and the politics of sentiment

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2011

  • Commentary Sexting as Adolescent Social Communication: A call for attention

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2010

    Problematic relationships of visual telephony, interpersonal communication, and adolescent culture are well illustrated in the emergence of “sexting.” “Sexting” (a simplistic contraction of “sex” a

  • VIA's visual voices: The awareness of a dedicated audience for voices in patient video narratives

    Richard Chalfen, Laura J Sherman et al.ARTICLEVisual Studies2010

    First the authors examine the concept of ‘voice’ in one model of participant media research (PMR) giving special attention to parallel variables of hearing, begging questions about the ‘listening’ component of any communication process. Second, they describe the use of a research programme entitled Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) and a series of ongoing video narrative projects with chronically ill young people at Children's Hospit…

  • Lifting up voices of participatory visual research

    W Luttrell, Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2010

  • The Oxford Project

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2010Cited by: 1References: 3

  • On Another Playground: Japanese Popular Culture in America Produced by Keiko Ikeda; DVD designed and edited by David Plath

    Open AccessRichard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2009

    2008 , 160 minutes, color. Distributed by the Asian Educational Media Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 , http://www.aems.uiuc.edu Materials for this DVD come from a 2003 conference entitled “Globalization and Japanese Culture.” This two-day gathering was hosted by the American Studies Program at Doshisha University in Kyoto and offered in conjunction with an exhibition, “Japan in the United States.” Keiko Iked…

  • It's only a picture: Sexting, 'Smutty' Snapshots and Felony Charges1

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2009Cited by: 41

  • Snapshot Versions of Life

    Richard ChalfenBOOKSnapshot Versions of Life2008

    Snapshot Versions of Life is an important foray into the culture of photography and home life from an anthropologist's perspective. Examining what he calls 'Home Mode' photography, Richard Chalfen explores snapshots, slide shows, family albums, home movies, and home videos, uncovering what people do with their photos as well as what their personal photos do for them.Chalfen's 'Polaroid People' are recognizable - if ironically viewed - relatives, …

  • Shinrei Shashin: Photographs of Ghosts in Japanese Snapshots

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEPhotography and Culture2008

    Some Japanese snapshot photographs are believed to include images of ghosts, known in Japan as shinrei shashin. This phenomenon is examined in a series of personal interviews and an historical overview of ghost beliefs in Japan. Japanese ghost belief, imagery, and reference have roots in myth, folklore, and theater and can be found in mass media including film, manga, anime, novels, short stories, and now video games. But appearance in home media…

  • Visual interventions: Applied visual anthropology

    Richard Chalfen, Malcolm Collier et al.BOOKVisual Interventions2007

    there's a great deal social researchers doing visual work can learn from Pink's book...It's a valuable resource for researchers, activists, and social service workers looking for innovative visual methodologies for collaborative research and social intervention. It makes an excellent contribution to the ongoing academic debate over the value of applied and visual social research, as well. * Contexts, Magazine of the American Sociological Associat…

  • If tiles could talk… the visual life of a senior ceramic tiles project

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2007

    Between 1958 and 2005, graduating seniors at a preparatory school in Cambridge, Massachusetts produced a total of 3640 decorated ceramic tiles for display on interior school walls. This article examines the meaning of such a practice for past and current members of the school community as part of the school's visual culture. Topics include visual heritage, image management, identity construction, social and psychological functions and meta‐messag…

  • Looking at Japanese society: Hashiguchi George as visual sociologist

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2005

    This paper examines how Japanese social documentary photographer, Hashiguchi George (b. 1949) explores his own society and culture much like a visual sociologist. Little known outside of Japan, Hashiguchi implicitly poses questions and provides pictorial responses to problems of social order and Japanese social organization. Much of Hashiguchi's work includes portrait photography accompanied by written transcriptions of questions answered by his …

  • Applying Visual Research Patients Teaching Physicians Through Visual Illness Narratives

    Open AccessRichard Chalfen, Michelle Rich et al.ARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2004Cited by: 5References: 9

    Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) is grounded in themes central to applied anthropology and combined with selective threads of visual, medical, and media anthropology. VIA emphasizes the use of a multifunctional channel of audiovisual communication in the roles of information and cultural brokerage. Young patients were instructed to follow a specified protocol to “teach your clinician about your illness” by using consumer model video…

  • Celebrating life after death: The appearance of snapshots in Japanese pet gravesites

    Richard ChalfenARTICLEVisual Studies2003

    This paper examines the content, display and communicative value of snapshot photographs found in Japanese pet cemeteries and identified as doubutsu no haka no shashin (animal grave pictures). A case study from Jindaiji Pet Cemetery in Tokyo explores how ordinary people illustrate Berger's anthropomorphization theme through observed relationships between family photography, pet-extended families, memory and beliefs in the afterlife of both humans…