Melissa Banta

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Melissa Banta is a curator and author, who has worked with photograph collections in Harvard University’s museums and libraries for over thirty years. Her exhibitions and publications include From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery; A Timely Encounter: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Japan; The Invention of Photography and Its Impact on Learning; A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard; The Human Factor: Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at Baker Library; The High Art of Photographic Advertising: The 1934 National Alliance of Art and Industry Exhibition; and At the Intersection of Science and Art: Edwin H. Land & the Polaroid Corporation, The Formative Years.

“Photographic Encounters in the Philippines, 1898 - 1910”

Melissa Banta

2007 Critiism 3 pages Courtesy of IIAS Newsletter and Ben Cabrera

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Melissa Banta

Melissa Banta is a curator and author, who has worked with photograph collections in Harvard University’s museums and libraries for over thirty years. Her exhibitions and publications include From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography, and the Power of Imagery; A Timely Encounter: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Japan; The Invention of Photography and Its Impact on Learning; A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard; The Human Factor: Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at Baker Library; The High Art of Photographic Advertising: The 1934 National Alliance of Art and Industry Exhibition; and At the Intersection of Science and Art: Edwin H. Land & the Polaroid Corporation, The Formative Years.

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