... series delves into issues of photography theory, on questions of indexicality and performativity, and the relations between photographic images in specific cultural climate. The author analyzes how these images may indicate the political fluctuations between the Asia-Pacific War, the 1970s, and 2003...

... of surfaces.   6. Jan Baetans, “Conceptual Limitations of Our Reflection on Photography: The Question of ‘Interdisciplinarity,’ ” in Photography Theory, ed. James Elkins (London: Routledge, 2007), 57. The entire book is not only...

...” as a sign physically connected to an object. One can readily point to theoretical interconnections among the shin’ei prints, the Shhyaku-­sha’s desire to make these prints, and one of the most prevailing points of contention in the theories of photography...

... literature informed by computational methods. Gavin Walker is assistant professor of history and East Asian studies at McGill University. He is the author of The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics...

... of encounter between viewer and screen — ­yet once we recognize the filmlike continuum and the social dynamics involved, apparatus theory helps us understand how photography places the subject within an ideological framework...

... of the mixed-­nation theory of the origins of the Japanese. During Japan’s imperial engagement in other Asian nations, there had been disputes over whether Japanese people originated from one pure race or were mixed with other Asian ethnicities...

...) in China dur- ing the Cultural Revolution also plastered the first world and its outposts with fashion photos, art nudes like the hundreds that M. L. Toy Xoomsai took in his thirty- year career in the same Thai photography movement.1 Do we really need to know how a color image of a movie star in Cold War...

... imperial project, and their complicity with the renovation of Chinese architectural theory and practice in the early twentieth century. I am especially interested Jones ❘❘ Architectural Photography and the “Forms” of Empire in Modern China 603...

...). Takiguchi referred to Egawa’s contribution in introducing Kepes’s theory, which succeeded Moholy-­Nagy’s, in his article, “Shij hatsugen” (“A Statement Shashin tech (Photography Note) 2, no. 5 (1950): 20. 19...

...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...

... — ­a reader, a viewer of photographs, or a spectator of films? In the trial, each party — ­the defense, the prosecutor, and the judges — ­ advanced theories of the affective powers of the respective media of prose, photography...

...Tim Shao-Hung Teng Abstract This article situates Lu Xun at the intersection of late-Qing folkloric discourse and medical science by studying his 1925 essay “Lun zhaoxiang zhilei” (“On Photography”). “On Photography” is a rich yet enigmatic piece of writing that has yet to receive critical...

... . Ballad of Narayama (Narayama Bushi Kō) . Tokyo : Shochiku . Lamarre Thomas . 2014 . “ Cartoon Film Theory: Imamura Taihei on Animation, Photography, and Documentary .” In Animating Film Theory , edited by Beckman Karen , 221 – 51 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Nitta...

... (stimuli), whose value is re ected by the novelty of the information — as Benjamin writes, according to the contemporary methods of producing theory, which are based on a combination of behaviorism, empirical research, and practi...

... 2012 Contributors Tina Mai Chen is associate professor of history at the University of Manitoba. Recent pub- lications include “Peasant and Woman in Maoist Revolutionary Theory, ss,” in Reform, Revolution...

...: Everyday Images from 1970s China 673 The Centrality of Photographic Propaganda Contemporary art works often shed light on the rather peculiar, Janus-­faced position that photography occupied in the daily life of Mao Zedong’s China...

.... 21 Philip Rosen, Change Mummified: Cinema, Historicity, Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), 29. 22 Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill and Wang...

... The work and theories of photography discussed among these artists reflected two powerful trends emerging in German photography in the 1930s: New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) and Bauhaus photography, rep- resented most iconically by photographers...

.... These works provide one of the most striking, yet in some ways most banal, interactions between photography and fiction in prewar Japan. Labeling them as “photographic fiction” or “fiction to see/movies to read [miru shsetsu/yomu eiga magazines...

... College. Her current research is on photography, memorialization, and spirit mediumship in nothern Japan. Mariko &an0 Tamanoi teaches anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is completing a book-length...