... catachrony Korean War photographs orphan photographs transnational adoption ...

... Chapter 1 examines how Korean War–era photographs of war orphans come to frame contemporary memory making of the war as the photographs are remediated in contemporary Korean War commemorative events. The narrative of victimhood became a common literary and visual rhetorical device in the decades...

...Family Catachrony Chapter 1 examines how Korean War–era photographs of war orphans come to frame contemporary memory making of the war as the photographs are remediated in contemporary Korean War commemorative events. The narrative of victimhood became a common literary and visual rhetorical...

... rethinks the desire to seek authentically Korean methodologies for studies of Korean photography through the binary of national adherence and antagonization. The introduction challenges both epistemic frames by exploring the temporality, performativity, and sensoriality of post–Korean War photography...

... Chapter 2 discusses family photographic portraits through a dual lens: photography’s ability to convey changing family narratives through portraiture and how family pictures embody the desire under the kukka to transform Korean society from colonial and war-ridden to modern and industrial...

... the Korean photographer Yong Suk Kang’s 1980s images of camptowns through snapshot portraits and siren eun young jung’s multimedia work in the city of Dongducheon, which does away with the representation of bodies and faces in favor of spaces and voices. Exploring jung’s camptown images provides ways...

..., laden with foreign desire and currency. Photographic works on camptowns diverging from this perspective include the Korean photographer Yong Suk Kang’s 1980s images of camptowns through snapshot portraits and siren eun young jung’s multimedia work in the city of Dongducheon, which does away...

... Chapter 5 probes the visualization of the spaces of transnational militarism—the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and US military camptowns in South Korea—that are, for most Koreans, imagined spaces existing beyond the sovereignty of South Korea in the name of peace keeping. The chapter explores...

... of the two key South Korean democratization movements—the 4.19 Revolution of 1960 and 1987 June Uprising. Between these signal events, extreme censorship hindered the practice of photography as a political tool for the citizenry. The rise of the Saenghwaljuui realism photography movement nonetheless...

... Chapter 3 examines the politics of photography in South Korea during the era of the military government’s censorship of media and cultural production, through the dramatic changes of the 1980s’ democratization movements. The chapter reconsiders iconic photographs of the two key South Korean...

... In the twenty-first century, online viewing and sharing of photographs has become ubiquitous, as evident through images of the 2002 and 2008 candlelight vigils that swept South Korea; this is photography manifested as part of political activism. Continuing the discussion on the event...

... DMZ photographs camptowns Real DMZ Project repetition ...

... family photography vernacular photography studio portraits women photographers ...

... photo public protest photographs candlelight vigils plural performativity ...