Joseph Replogle: An Unknown Photographer of Modest Talents Available to Purchase

jay w. ruby, an emeritus professor of anthropology at Temple University, has been exploring the relationship between cultures and pictures for forty years and is a leader in visual anthropology and multimedia ethnography. His research interests include the application of anthropological insights to the production and comprehension of all pictorial forms. He holds degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1960, he has published sixteen books and numerous articles on American archaeology, popular culture, photo history, and visual anthropology. For the past three decades, he has conducted ethnographic studies of pictorial communication in Juniata County, Pennsylvania; Oak Park, Illinois; and Bohemian Malibu.