Facts: - death place: san jose , costa rica - known for: photography , visual anthropology - footnotes: john museum of anthropology . collier 's photographs are archived at the maxwell - fields: photography , visual anthropology - influences: artist alexander h. leighton maynard dixon social scientists roy emerson stryker , - death date: 1992 - workplaces: standard oil company cornell university san francisco state university - birth date: 1913 - name: john collier jr. . - citizenship: american - nationality: american - image: john_collier _ -lrb- anthropologist -rrb- . jpg - birth place: sparkill , new york Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of john collier jr. . .
john collier jr. -lrb- 1913 -- 1992 -rrb- , son of the commissioner of indian affairs with the same name , was an american anthropologist and an early leader in the fields of visual anthropology and applied anthropology .his emphasis on analysis and use of still photographs in ethnography led him to significant contributions in other subfields of anthropology , especially the applied anthropology of education .his book , '' visual anthropology : photography as a research method '' -lrb- 1967 -rrb- is one of the earliest textbooks in the field and is still -lrb- revised 1986 -rrb- in use today .he is also notable as someone who overcame significant learning and hearing impairments to succeed on a larger stage .