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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 6 (2)
Published: 01 April 2016
...Allen Hockley David Odo , The Journey of a “Good Type”: From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs ( Cambridge, MA : Peabody Museum Press , 2015 , dist. Harvard University Press ) 2016 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 7 (1)
Published: 01 October 2016
... an autobiographical framework within which, I argue, presentations of criminality must be read against war-inflected constructions of self and home. As one of the first collections to organize and caption photographs of people of interest, it prefigures the photographic ethnographies, such as Lord Charles John...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 7 (1)
Published: 01 October 2016
... ( Songhuajiang xiayou de Hezhe zu ), was published in 1934 and became a model for ethnographies on other groups in different parts of China. 7 The timing and location of Ling’s expedition were politically significant. Manchuria (or the Northeast, in Chinese nationalist geography) in 1930 was a tinderbox...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 4 (1)
Published: 01 November 2013
... as a superb example. In Camera Indica, Pinney provides an ethnography that reads vernacular photography (wedding albums, portraits of loved and departed ones) against the history of the representational conventions of the nineteenth century described in the preceding chapters of the book and in the context...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 5 (2)
Published: 01 April 2015
...://www.brill.com/products/book/pointy-shoes-and-pith-helmets ]. Documented with photographs and other illustrations. “The photographic heritage of Kauffmann, believed to be lost and then rediscovered by the author, is the focus of this publication. It attempts, by means of a detailed ‘pictorial ethnography...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 6 (1)
Published: 01 October 2015
...Raymond Lum 2015 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. David Odo, The Journey of "A Good Type": From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs ; foreword by Elizabeth Edwards (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 6 (2)
Published: 01 April 2016
... and Early Yokohama Photography brings to the fore von Stillfried’s career as one of the leading European photographers who helped to shape Japan’s public image abroad. Alan Hockley’s review of David Odo’s important book The Journey of a “Good Type”: From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 7 (2)
Published: 01 May 2017
...,” and Worcester’s first book, The Philippine Islands and Their People , in 1898, based on letters home during his trips to the archipelago, became an instant success. Worcester was well placed to take on a public role as an authority not just on natural history but also on the ethnography of the various races...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 7 (1)
Published: 01 October 2016
... from the salvage ethnography of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As James Clifford points out, “[T]he salvage paradigm, reflecting a desire to rescue something ‘authentic’ out of destructive historical changes,” denotes an “ideological complex.” For this ideology to work, one must...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 1 (2)
Published: 01 May 2011
... that they adopt, as though it is productive to categorize and group their artistic practices under these convenient labels. In fact, some of them work against the erasure of political and cultural histories. Others devise strategies ranging from performance to urban ethnography in varying attempts to assert...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 1 (2)
Published: 01 May 2011
... of Photography. They were done with scholars from within and outside the Collection, and addressed areas such as ethnography, art history and anthropology. We also now have our traveling retrospective of Homai Vyarawalla’s work, organized by the National Gallery of Modern Art. We will be publishing two...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 1 (2)
Published: 01 May 2011
... in archival work and ethnography what Pinney and Nicolas Peterson have called “photography’s other histories” in the region. 1 The present volume is not concerned, at least overtly, with that critical impulse, and consequently, it does not engage with questions such as what happens when photography comes...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
... II American GIs Clyde Waddell war photography Calcutta Wartime photography in the Indian subcontinent has evolved as a tangled patchwork of ideologies informed by intersecting histories of colonialism, ethnography, propaganda, and photojournalism. From the occupational act of capturing...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 4 (1)
Published: 01 November 2013
... search access with that of the National Archives. nationalmuseum.sg The National Museum traces its origins back to the 1820s. During the colonial era it was known as the Raffles Library and Museum, moving into its present building in 1887 and focusing on natural history and ethnography...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 5 (1)
Published: 01 October 2014
.... In the case of the Vietnamese families documented by Kwon, kinship memory sutures treacherous political bifurcations that persist beyond the war’s end and despite the nation’s reunification. Although Kwon’s ethnography focuses on families in postwar Vietnam and their connection to the wartime dead, still...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 6 (2)
Published: 01 April 2016
... of colonial anthropology, drawing particular attention to his Ethnographie Moderne: Les Races Sauvages (1883), which expounded on “the physical characteristics of the people of Africa, South America, and Oceania and included several illustrations of colonial subjects in front and profile view alongside...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 4 (1)
Published: 01 November 2013
... Ethnography.” In Morton, C. A., and E. Edwards. Photography, Anthropology, and History: Expanding the Frame. Surrey. UK: Ashgate, 2009. Morton, C. A., and E. Edwards. Photography, Anthropology, and History: Expanding the Frame. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2009. Peers, L., and A. K. Brown. “Introduction...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 5 (1)
Published: 01 October 2014
.... 22. Ibid. 23. Ryang, Writing Selves in Diaspora: Ethnography of Autobiographics of Korean Women in Japan and the United States (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2008), xv. 24. Ryang, ibid., 164. 25. Ryang, Diaspora without Homeland , 15. 26. Ibid., 14. 2. Sonia Ryang...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (2)
Published: 01 November 2022
..., more often than not, have been studio photographers themselves, we have begun to open a comprehensive window onto an Indian—or rather a Tamil—history of studio photography. This research constitutes a field of “urgent ethnography,” 25 as this history has been transmitted orally across...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 5 (2)
Published: 01 April 2015
... raises questions about a conscious self-exotization in the work of contemporary artists and filmmakers from China. For discussions on the role of self-orientalization in contemporary visual culture in China, see Rey Chow, Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese...
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