DER FILMMAKER

DER Filmmaker – Jay Ruby

Jay Ruby

United States
  • Jay Ruby is a visual anthropologist who has spent the last forty years exploring the relation between culture and the visual/pictorial world. He has published numerous studies about photography, film, popular culture and produced several ethnographic films and also founded graduate and undergraduate program in the anthropology of visual communication at Temple University. Oak Park Stories is the culmination of his interest reflexivity as the village is also his hometown.