asked to do so by study participants. His work has been referenced and his methods used, not only in visual anthropology and sociology but also in psychiatric and educational anthropology. Legacy His theoretical and methodological contributions were many. While some visual anthropologists and semioticians, like Erving Goffman, wanted to reject such forms of visual data as posed photographs, Collier cogently argued that all visual materials, snapshots of any kind, still reveal the something of the kinesthetics and the culture that produced them. So, an anthropologist might look at dozens of posed photographs to understand what constitutes "posing" in that time period and culture, as opposed to rejecting them. Collier also pioneered the use of the camera, in itself, as a method of entry into the field. Today, his photographs are archived at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque. Death Collier died on February 25, 1992, aged 78, while on vacation in San José, Costa Rica, of internal bleeding following surgery. At the time of his death, he had homes in Muir Beach, California, and Talpa, New Mexico. References External links John Collier (anthropologist)'s photographs, on Flickr Maxwell Museum's article, with a collection of Collier's photographs 1913 births 1992 deaths Visual anthropologists People from Sparkill, New York San Francisco State University faculty People of the United States Office of War Information United States Merchant Mariners 20th-century American anthropologists