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Photograph of an elder Machigenga (Machiguenga) tribe man smiling while
sitting with a young boy and girl. The Machigenga are naturally both
friendly and curious. However, they are also very camera-shy. The
way that photographer Chuck Clark was able to capture images of these indigenous
Amazonians in a relaxed and natural pose, was that they did not know that they
were being photographed. Chuck Clark innovated an ingenious way of making
it appear that he was photographing another subject; he used a false lens which
he pointed in the opposite direction, while the real lens was hidden in a lens
hood and pointed at the subjects, in this case the native Amazonians seen in the
above picture.
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