[PHOTO] Five photography links: Distracted Boyfriend, anthropology. Edward Curtis, fake news

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• Did you know that the famous Distracted Boyfriend meme is actually part of a long melodramatic storyline, involving broken marriages, dead babies, and murder? Imgur has it all.


• Dick Powis, writing at Anthro{dendum} in the #Ror2018 series, examines the theory and the power behind visual ethnography.


• JSTOR Daily considers how some of the portraits of Edward Curtis depicting indigenous cultures underplayed their members' engagement with the modern world, and why.


• Lazia Kretzel, writing at the Guardian's Comment is Free, looks at how Nigel Farage's uncritical sharing of a crudely morphed photo of a Canadian supporter of refugees that she herself took is dangerous.


• Mark Gollom takes a look at the uncontested power of a contested photo taken to illustrate the Trump Administration's separation of children from parents at the United States' border. What can a photo be taken to mean?