
Barry D. Kass is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Orange County
Community College, S. U. N. Y., where he taught various courses in anthropology,
sociology, and human geography for thirty-eight years. He has conducted
archaeological field work in the American Southwest, and was a U. S. National Park
Ranger--Archaeologist at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Professor Kass has
traveled extensively through Africa, Central and South America, The United States,
Europe and Israel, and has taken thousands of photographs of traditional and modern
people and cultures, archaeological sites, and natural history. He has recently earned a
Certificate in Digital Photography and Adobe Photoshop from the New York Institute of
Photography in New York City.
This site displays a varied selection of outstanding photographs, suitable for
leasing and publication.
Kass' photographs have appeared in such publications as::
- Webster, Evans, and Sanders: Out of the Past--An Introduction to Archaeology
( Mayfield 1993 )
- Nanda and Warms: Cultural Anthropology 6th ed. ( West 1998 )
- Feder: The Past in Perspective--An Introduction to Human Prehistory 3d ed.
( McGraw-Hill 2004 )
- Peoples and Bailey: Humanity--An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 7th
ed. ( Wadsworth 2005 )
- B. Muckle: Introducing Archaeology, ist ed. ( Broadview Press, 2006 )
- Wenke and Oszewski: Patterns in Prehistory, 5th ed. (Oxford U. Press, 2006 )
- Price and Feinman: Images of the Past, 5th ed. ( McGraw-Hill, 2007 )
- J. Woodfork: Cultures and Customs of the Central African Republic
(Greenwood Press, 2006 )
- B. Miller, Cultural Anthropology, 4th. ed. ( Pearson, Allyn&Bacon Longman,
2007 )
- A. Cremin, chief consultant: The World Encyclopedia of Archaeology: the
World's Most Significant Sites and Cultural Resources ( Globel Book
Publishing, Sydney, Australia 2007 )
Kass has also organized and contributed to the photographic image bank for the
Thomson/Wadsworth Higher Education On-Line Anthropology Resource Center.
Kass' Best of Images of Anthropology photo exhibit is now on display in the offices
of the American Anthropological Association in Arlington, Virginia.
About the Photographer
Barry Kass standing next to his photograph
of Machu Picchu, on display at the recently
opened "Gold in the Americas" exhibit at the
Museum of Civilization in Quebec City