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in Hong Kong in Transition: Photography and Liberation at the End of the Pacific War
> Trans Asia Photography
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 3. The British reoccupation of Hong Kong, February 20, 1946. Photograph by Sgt. Oakes. Nitrate. War Office, Central Office of Information and American Second World War Official Collection, SE 6828, Imperial War Museum.
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in Hong Kong in Transition: Photography and Liberation at the End of the Pacific War
> Trans Asia Photography
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 4. The British reoccupation of Hong Kong, September 24, 1945. Photograph by Sgt. R. Watson. Nitrate. War Office, Central Office of Information and American Second World War Official Collection, SE 5062, Imperial War Museum.
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in Hong Kong in Transition: Photography and Liberation at the End of the Pacific War
> Trans Asia Photography
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 7. The British reoccupation of Hong Kong, September 18, 1945. Photograph by Sgt. R. Watson. Nitrate. War Office, Central Office of Information and American Second World War Official Collection, SE 5017, Imperial War Museum.
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Published: 01 September 2011
Pushpamala N., ‘Toda (after late 19th century British anthropometric photograph)’. From the photo-performance project Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs , 2000-2004. Sepia toned silver gelatin print on fibre paper, 20 x 24 inches. Courtesy the artist and Bose Pacia, New York.
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
...Figure 3. The British reoccupation of Hong Kong, February 20, 1946. Photograph by Sgt. Oakes. Nitrate. War Office, Central Office of Information and American Second World War Official Collection, SE 6828, Imperial War Museum. ...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
... relationship with the public—more cordial, touristic, and commercially transactional than the British officials. Military photographer Clyde Waddell captured the recreational activities of GIs in the streets of Calcutta at their behest and self-published sixty photographs in 1946. Though the images depict...
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in Modern Family: The Transformation of the Family Photograph in Qajar Iran
> Trans Asia Photography
Published: 22 October 2018
Fig. 1. Abdallah Khan, Fath Ali Shah enthroned with his sons, attended by 'ghulams,' 1816-20, watercolour, Add.Or.1239, © The British Library Board.
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (2)
Published: 01 November 2022
.... They represent a moment of tangled relations between object, history, migration, and technology. The photographer was young and, like his subjects, was unaware of the horror that would erupt outside the frame a few months after the photographs were taken. The British government placed great burdens...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
...Sim Chi Yin Abstract In this article, the author critically reflects on her long project One Day We'll Understand, a multichapter research and art work that complicates the historiography of the “Malayan Emergency,” the anticolonial war in the former British colony of Malaya (1948–60)—made...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
...Annu Palakunnathu Matthew Abstract While collecting family photographs of some of the 2.5 million Indians who fought in World War II on behalf of their British colonizer, this article's author, an artist, found that the idea of photographic “ubiquity” was turned on its head. She became increasingly...
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in Of Colonial Photographs and Cultural Resources: the Photographic Archive of the Sarawak Museum
> Trans Asia Photography
Published: 01 November 2013
Figure 10: ‘Bungan’ religious ceremony in Long Tejoi. Seated on the chair, on the left: Penghulu Baland Lejau. On the right: Tua Kampung Jalayan, former Sergeant in the British army. Long Tejoi, 1956. Photograph from the archive of the Sarawak Museum.
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 7 (1)
Published: 01 October 2016
... into conflict with contemporaneous desires to assign agency to principal players in the Uprising. This conceptual tension resulted in the coexistence of two categories of photographs: those in which individuality and culpability were assigned to specific anti-British agents in the Uprising and typological...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 5 (1)
Published: 01 October 2014
... year a ship full of people from the British colony of India were turned away at Vancouver’s port. “We’ll take your artifacts but not your people”: a hundred years ago, this seemed to be the message that went out across the Dominion of Canada. In 2014, on their centennial anniversaries, there have...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (2)
Published: 21 December 2021
... to their advantage, and in India and Sri Lanka the South Asian woman emerged as the symbol of the British tea trade—a figure that sparked consumer fantasies of distant lands and was commodified alongside the grocery staple she laboriously produced. At the same time this trope emerged in advertising, the tea plucker...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 7 (2)
Published: 01 May 2017
... prevented the British East India Company, on the lookout for trading partners, from political and economic overtures to Tibetan authorities under the rule of the Dalai Lamas. Unable to visit the “roof of the world” directly, British imperial representatives were left curious about the region. The earliest...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 9 (2)
Published: 12 April 2019
.... RA VIC/MAIN/H/36/44. 63. “Board of Trustees of the British Museum, Minutes of the Standing Committee 9th June 1894.” The additional four photographic albums to which I refer are no difference in appearance, structure, or content from the initial forty-seven albums. 62. Waley, “Images...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 1 (2)
Published: 01 May 2011
... of which the Getty recently acquired from the Wilson Centre for Photography. A few additional photographs are from the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. The career of Felice Beato (1832-1909) is inextricable from the histories of the expansion of both the British Empire and Asian trade...
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Trans Asia Photography (2018) 9 (1)
Published: 22 October 2018
... ”). 26 The Times is an English-language newspaper that was established in 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. 27 It was printed in large cities such as Mumbai and Delhi for a readership of wealthy British expats and possibly members of the Indian upper class. 28 By 1861...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 4 (1)
Published: 01 November 2013
... to the technical specificity of photography in India. First, photographs produced by the British administrations in India, taken as a group, are, in retrospect, archives (metaphorically speaking) of the colonial state’s epistemological master plan for India. At the same time, like much of the documentation...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 6 (1)
Published: 01 October 2015
... empire with which he served the interests of his many clients over a thirty-year long career. Dayal began as a photographer in 1874 at the British Public Works Department for the Central India Agency, located in Indore, Central India. During a two-year furlough in 1885-1887, he transformed himself from...
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