Word: recordist
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...less than a year after graduating from Harvard College, Michael C. Rockefeller ’60 joined the Peabody Museum’s 1961 New Guinea Expedition as a sound recordist and photographer. Shortly after the expedition, Rockefeller disappeared in New Guinea while on a personal trip to photograph and collect Asmat art. Forty-two photographs from the more than 4000 negatives he left behind are currently showing at the Peabody. Though Rockefeller left few notes to guide the selection of his photographs—rendering the transformation from archive to exhibition largely interpretive—this lucid and organized...