...Ayelet Zohar This manuscript engages with two central ideas: the first concerns issues related to the problem of truth value in photography, vis-à-vis issues of fictionality and the powers of the false. This discussion is set forth through the analysis of two photographic series—Tsukada Mamoru's...

... as a transparent index of the world and as a guarantor of truth.22 Thus it is hardly coincidental that both the discovery of photography and Auguste Comte’s completion of his Cours de philosophie positive occurred in 1839, and that most...

..., one that seems capable of influencing communist women s history per se. The point is that comparative history can deal with the question of sex difference historically rather than simply erasing women s sexuality. What I take her to mean here is that the truth of sexual difference is incontest...

... shai and shasei While scholars have delineated the multiple historical and semantic meanings of these terms, focusing on the second Chinese character of the three compounds, the fact remains that the ideo- graphs for shin (truth, real...

... a series of related photographs, a photocollage, or a photomontage. Concerning the important truth-telling power ascribed to photography at the time and how this was capitalized on in h¯od¯o shashin, Ina wrote in 1935, “It has...

... revolutions entailed the projection of visual images with the expectation that visuality alone mobilizes truth-­values for its enlarged audiences. The presumption is that, since the public is so enamored with images, they do not question how...

... of photography, personal significance speaks to and for the truth content of the history of the photographed. Photography veils itself from consciousness because it preserves indiscriminately a myriad of recollections. Memory images...

... of Imperial Anthropology 763 lected and arranged to stand for something . . . everything set up, and the whole set-­up always evoking somehow some larger truth.”7 According to Mitchell, the world-­as-­exhibition...

... : 3 – 10 . Fuller Matthew , and Weizman Eyal . 2021 . Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth . London : Verso . Ghertner D. Asher . 2015 . Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi . Oxford : Oxford University Press...

... makes a historical truth claim on the basis of Markod’s sojourn in the United States, Fuentes cannot be prevented from making his second astounding argument that a Filipino diasporic narrative and a Filipino diasporic temporality are singularly...

... 539 example that portrays the interaction between mind and body, consciousness and perception: The truth is that memory does not consist in a regression from the present to the past, but, on the contrary, in a progress...

..., critics, and readers to con- stantly resituate to recover and reconsider unpleasant realities. A clear model for these critical praxes is Kristina Iwata- Weickgenannt s Broken Narra- tives, Multiple Truths: Writing History in Y Miri s The End of August. As Iwata- Weickgenannt explains, her attention...

... the city’s disarray and how badly it reflected on the nation. While reading these debates, it is easy to imagine that Tokyo lacked any form of regulation and that its reconstruction was entirely haphazard. In truth there was an exist- ing plan, which...

... the representation of voice as the ground of its truth,then this infinitely self-disclosing subject represents for the ethnographer a halluci- natory surplus of voice. Yet the very volubility of the subject must also be raised as a problem. The figure...

... 706 register the previously invisible hard-­core ‘truth’ of bodies and pleasures in a direct and unmediated fashion.”20 Citing Eadweard Muybridge’s experi- ments in the 1870s with instantaneous photography and his invention...

..., unlimited, and disembodied access to truth and reality, and the object of this language, the world or “his” unmediated knowing of it, is directly accessible. But this ultimate certitude on the part of the subject of standard Japa...

... of “nativizing” the Native Hawaiian population. This disjuncture between image and text was widespread, occurring not only on postcards and stereoscopes but also in journalistic articles and books. In each of these cases, the two truth regimes...

... of Modernity in 1920s Japan,” positions 13, no. 2 (2005): 299. 18. Inoue Kazuo, ed., Ozu Yasujirô zenshû (Jô) (All works of Ozu Yasujirô [1]) (Tokyo: Shinsho- kan, 2003), 191. 19. Sabine Frühstück, “Managing the Truth of Sex in Imperial Japan...

... as redemptive, and relies on realist underpinnings. Abigail Solomon-Godeau makes a similar argument in art photography with regard to the power of affective transaction. “Photography communicates affectively, when it does, not because of its truth content...

... so complete in itself, as if it were con- firming some natural truth about the subject in the picture. Then when she started taking photos, the endless possibilities became sometimes daunt- ing. For Gill this only revealed that the essential...