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Reading Comprehension for CET 6 Passage 1 In the 1962 movie Lawrence of Arabia,one scene shows an American newspaper reporter eagerly snapping photos of men looting a sabotaged of the looters,Chief Auda abu Tayi of the Howeitat clan,suddenly notices the camera and snatches I in thishe asks,before smashing it the dismayed reporter,Lawrence explains,He thinks these things will steal his thinks youre a kind of thief. As soon as colonizers and explorers began taking cameras into distant lands,stories began circulating about how indigenous peoples saw them as tools for black ignorant natives may have had a photography first became available,scientists welcomed it as a more objective way of recording faraway societies than early travelers exaggerated in someways,anthropological photographs reveal more about the culture that holds the camera than the one that stares into the 1950s and 1960s,many ethnographers sought pure pictures of primitive cultures,routinely deleting modern accoutrements such as clocks and Western paid men and women to re-enact rituals or to pose as members of war or hunting parties,often with little regard for Curtis,the legendary photographer of North American Indians,for example,got one Makah man to pose as a whaler with a spear in 1915--even though the Makahhad not hunted whales in a generation. These photographs reinforced widely accepted stereotypes that indigenous cultures were isolated,primitive,and instance,National Geographic magazines photographs have taught millions of Americans about other Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins point out in their 1993 book Reading National Geographic,the magazine since its founding in 1888 has kept a tradition of presenting beautiful photos that dont challenge white,middle-class American dark-skinned women can be shown with