Lévi-Strauss: Reason And Sensibility

There is a possible comparison between Lévi-Strauss’s conceptions of photography and his discomfort with travel narratives. My goal is to show that understanding this association is only possible when we consider Lévi-Strauss’s reflections on works of art and the role he reserves for ethnography. On the other hand, it is his own ideas about the artist that must be considered if our goal is to evaluate Lévi-Strauss as a photographer and his highly sensitive images of the people and places he captured during his travels in Brazil.