David Odo
author
Dr. David Odo is a visual and material anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of art, with primary research interests in early Japanese photography, critical museology, and objects of colonial encounter. He has held numerous prestigious research fellowships at institutions including Harvard University, the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institution, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, and the University of Tokyo. Odo received his MPhil and DPhil in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford and an AB in East Asian Studies from Columbia University. He has served as Director of Student Programs and Research Curator of University Collections Initiatives at the Harvard Art Museums and is currently the Director of the Georgia Museum of Art. His work often explores the intersection of photography, history, and museum pedagogy.[1]
- early Japanese photography
- critical museology
- colonial encounter
- visual anthropology
Books
Works by David Odo
- 2008 Unknown Japan: Reconsidering 19th-century Photographs Volume 4 of Rijksmuseum Studies in Photography.
- 2015 The Journey of “A Good Type”: from artistry to ethnography in early Japanese photographs
- 2009 Expeditionary Photographs of the Ogasawara Islands, 1875-1876 Volume 33 (2), pp185-208.
References
- Pitt Rivers Museum - University of Oxford link