... on historical and contemporary photography in Japan. Her recent curatorial project, Beyond Hiroshima: The Return of the Repressed Wartime Memory, Performativity and the Documentary in Contemporary Japanese Photography and Video Art, was shown on the seventieth...

..., creating a complex view of visual representation and its means and methods. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Japanese photography Iraq War photography theory World War 2 Japanese stragglers indexicality and performativity “truth value” in photography spirit photography...

...Gyewon Kim This essay examines the interlayered relations between photography, archive, and science in imperial Japan and postcolonial Korea. It specifically takes its cue from two archival contexts: the archive made by Uchida Keitarô, a Japanese ichthyologist who surveyed in colonial Korea during...

... Maki Fukuoka In writing on the history of photography in Japan, scholars commonly note that the Japanese word shashin conveys different meanings than the English word photography. While the term shashin existed prior to the intro...

... they appeared. For “Picture-­Taking” was published in the first issue of The Chinese Journal of Photography to appear after the Japanese bombing of Shanghai in 1931, one of whose many casualties was, at least temporarily, Shanghai’s publishing industry...

... to the popular consumption of portrait photography in Japan from the time of the Sino-­Japanese War of 1894 – 95.53 This frontality stages the sitters in the family portrait as subjects of the camera’s gaze, implying that the record for posterity...

... and Hosoe's art photography—share an interest in exploring the area surrounding Tokyo Bay. Through this comparison, I examine the ways that Tokyo's periphery is invoked as a site of anxiety in the context of the radicalized politics and high-growth economics of the Japanese 1960s. What does it mean...

...- tions of reportage and documentary photography) into Japanese as h¯od¯o shashin was actually done by Natori himself. This new term marked a dis- tinction from the more generic category of press photography, as it implied a more active...

... felt, and Moholy-­Nagy responded regularly to his Japanese counterpart. At the time, Takiguchi was strongly interested in the photographic medium. Since the mid-­1930s, avant-­garde photography as opposed to pictorial photography was a topic...

... a series of Tokyo Comedy (Kyoto: Korinsha, 1997). Courtesy Araki Nobuyoshi Hagiwara ❘❘ Photography of Araki Nobuyoshi 237 able in Japanese. Two versions of the catalog were published: one German- English...

...- opment of Japanese anthropology, this study attends to the expositions’ use of visual methods in representing the other. In the first section of this article, I analyze Tsuboi’s use of composite photography, which epitomizes the way that he...

... represented in the photographs. Frederick ❘❘ Novels to See/Movies to Read: Photographic Fiction in Japanese Women’s Magazines 729 James Lastra usefully discusses instantaneous photography and early cinema, noting that “questions of pictorial immediacy, clarity...

..., Yokohama also became an early center for the adoption and dissemina- tion of both Western dress and photography in Japan. During Okakura’s youth, both Shimooka Renj¯o (1823–1914), one of the first Japanese pro- fessional photographers, and Felice...

... Cinema and the Urban Contract (2010). Kirsten Cather is assistant professor of Japanese literature and film in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She has recently finished a book on postwar...

... by the Japanese Supreme Court in 2007, again rhetorically defined the indexical nature of photography and film as the sine qua non of obscenity at the same time that it convicted a comic book. Con- versely, on February 19, 2008, reversing...

...Kirsten Cather This article considers the 1973 Nikkatsu Roman Porn film adaptation of a short story by Japanese literary giant Nagai Kafū, “Underneath the Papering of the Four-and-a-Half-Mat Room” (“Yojōhan fusuma no urabari”). This low-budget erotic film appeared in the international context...

... nor accidental. The U.S. mili- tary had banned all photography and publication of any existing pho- tographs of the atomic bomb sites for seven years, beginning on 19 October 1945. For better or for worse, so far as I know...

.... Subsequently, he returns once more to the emaki scrolls and other Japanese arts, but concludes on a more radical note regarding the perception of the close- up: A close- up, after all, is bringing the eyes closer to look at an object in detail. Close- ups in film and photography display in this way...

...Tani Barlow Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Editor’s Introduction By chance, each essay in this issue raises fresh ways to approach Japanese national language and “Japanese” cultural history. Hoyt J. Long’s “(Il)legi­...

... of Japanese and Japanese Language) (Tokyo: Shinyôsha, 1996), 166 – 210. 34 Sakai, Voices of the Past, 335 – 36. 35 For theoretical considerations on photography and film as “indexical” technologies, see Inoue ❘❘ Commodity...