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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 7 (1)
Published: 01 October 2016
... process of moving, over time, from being constrained in his art-making by an extremely narrow government-imposed agenda to gradually becoming transnational in the scope and reach of his work. Sometimes an individual can be deeply connected to more than one nation. As a Saudi woman living in London...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 3 (1)
Published: 01 September 2012
... be answered, or even considered, in that space. That context itself, however, raises questions about the conflicted memory of the Korean War, and in turn how Korean War photographs are often exploited for a political agenda. Indeed, before the images are even presented, the specter of geopolitical issues...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 9 (2)
Published: 12 April 2019
... the capacity for change, and limiting the possibilities for contemporary engagement and resonance. Most egregiously from the perspective of current “decolonizing” agendas, the descendants of those who first created, utilized, or possessed the objects are still frequently absent from the museum, either...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 5 (1)
Published: 01 October 2014
...-point research agenda for the future, asking, among other things, how scholars might explore the shape of a diasporic “consciousness.” What characterized and facilitated it? language? religion? economic deprivation? political disability? the folklore and myths of home? shifting meanings about...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 8 (1)
Published: 12 October 2017
... of the first displays of photography organized after the Cultural Revolution without a political agenda: instead, for sheer individual expression. In an introductory statement ( figure 9 ), Wang Zhiping said the event aimed to be an art photography exhibition, independent of official ideology. This excerpt...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 2 (1)
Published: 01 September 2011
... disclose a spectrum of personal, commercial, and political agendas. Many of the images are reproduced here for the first time, including some of the colorful examples of Chinese export paintings by Tingqua (Guan Lianchang, brother of painter Lamqua), lent to the exhibition by The Kelton Foundation in Los...
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Trans Asia Photography (2020) 10 (2)
Published: 24 April 2020
... traditional publications. Each issue of Vostok invites its readers to engage with a particular theme while introducing new aesthetic, social, and historical agendas. In the preface to its inaugural issue, Hyunho Kim wrote that the magazine contributes to creating an ecosystem in which young...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (2)
Published: 21 December 2021
... the world reveal exactly this startling phenomenon of erect poses. 3 They could be smiling or subdued; oblivious to the camera or staring right into it; being shot with an advocacy agenda or intended for mass entertainment. Yet transgender models in a full body feature are often portrayed in an upright...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 6 (1)
Published: 01 October 2015
... in India, leaving behind an extensive record particularly of the British system of indirect rule through which Indian princely states maintained sovereignty over their territories. The collaboration leads to a fine investigation. The authors take their research agenda to multiple archives in India, the USA...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (2)
Published: 21 December 2021
... of Cameron’s images from Sri Lanka concerns a series of portraits of botanist and artist Marianne North, the only white European subject to be photographed by Cameron after 1875. What is left unexplored is how the colonial agenda, persistent throughout her artistic practice and written correspondence, surface...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 1 (2)
Published: 01 May 2011
... hand, this magico-religious quality also allowed the Japanese authorities to effectively incorporate funerary photo portraits into state mourning rituals for the war dead. Kim thus brought to light how such funerary photo portraits in Japan were co-opted into a modern political agenda of colonization...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 2 (2)
Published: 01 April 2012
..., with their dresses and fashionable shoes, look quite different from others that Homai shot just a few years later at another educational institution with a radically opposed agenda. In her picture story on Lady Irwin College in Delhi in 1946, students, dressed more traditionally in saris and salwar kameez, learn...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 6 (2)
Published: 01 April 2016
..., such as the building of roads, and of the Ainu, the non-Asian, indigenous people of Japan whom the government was trying to incorporate into the nation. Thus, Stillfried was at the center of this process of visualizing Japan’s nation-building agenda. Many of his Hokkaido photographs then entered his commercial...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (1)
Published: 01 May 2022
... the dark spirits that the qimeng (enlightenment) agenda aimed to cast aside. To disassociate itself from this category, the SLS tried to self-exorcise with the scientific spirit, presenting itself as an academic society with membership fee and journals, proposing alternative forms of spiritual...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
... that furthered their own local agendas or reinforced their own conceptualizations of revolutionary struggle. We see this dynamic at work in two specific solidarity campaigns within Cuba that provide examples of how Cuba embraced but also modified materials from Vietnam: support for imprisoned activist Võ Thị...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 4 (1)
Published: 01 November 2013
... of minutes. 13 Here, a different archive opens up, one that is not yet closed, a living archive of everyday practices that serve as mnemonic devices leading us to an earlier century. Such an “archive,” or this particular assemblage of human and instrument, deserves a research agenda that attends...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 8 (1)
Published: 12 October 2017
...Marine Cabos By examining a selection of Sauvin’s archive, I am conscious of the fact that the collector’s agenda is a constituent part of any archive. For this reason, the photographs I present are not examined for their historical significance; rather, the goal is to delineate a framework...
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Trans Asia Photography (2010) 1 (1)
Published: 01 September 2010
... hidden commercial agenda. The Center’s first four shows wind up being perfect indicators of its priorities: reclaiming history, discovering and launching new talent, a keenness to retaining, rather than sacrificing, older analog techniques; and dedication to international collaboration...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 9 (2)
Published: 12 April 2019
... of image production and circulation, that of Lu Xun spread from an intimate circle of friends to a broad public, and transformed him from someone the viewer knew to someone unknown. 95 As the circulation grew wider, people with different agendas added “makeup” to the face of Lu Xun and viewers had...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 6 (1)
Published: 01 October 2015
... for the circulation of images. Derivative work resulting from the Umbrella Movement provides an alternative model for the dissemination of “news”: it calls for disseminating the political agenda of grassroots’ interests and mobilizing the critical civil mass in what could be called “participatory propaganda...
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