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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (1)
Published: 01 May 2022
...Haely Chang Abstract The History of Women in Korean Photography I exhibition, held at SeMA, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, in Seoul, South Korea, from June 29 to September 26, 2021, sheds light on an overlooked history of Korean female photographers from the 1900s to the 1980s. The first section...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 9 (2)
Published: 12 April 2019
... and becoming more present and visible. However, huge disparities exist from country to country with photobooks in economic powerhouses such as India, Indonesia, and Singapore gaining a stronger foothold. Inequalities in production also prevail between male and female photographers due in large measure...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 4 (2)
Published: 01 April 2014
... of their names or careers. Until the 1910s, women were not acknowledged as producers and consumers of visual culture, including photography. In the early 1920s, however, a female photographer entered the realm of representation. During this decade, there was a change in the way women were seen within society...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 8 (1)
Published: 12 October 2017
... photographers, many of whom still remain relatively unknown in the West. Ishikawa Mao, born in 1953, is an outspoken female photographer whose images are fueled by the distinctive political climate of her native Okinawa and the American military installations that populate the island. As a contentious yet...
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Trans Asia Photography (2018) 8 (2)
Published: 16 April 2018
... was established on October 15, 2017, as a way to upend this inequality. By inserting a female sensibility into a male- dominated field, Thuma ( “thuma in Burmese means “she”) intends to make room for female photographers and their own, often intimate stories. It has accomplished this under the initial...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 7 (2)
Published: 01 May 2017
... then, their continued research has resulted in this recently released bilingual publication that documents 1,613 Otsuji photographs within the Musashino collection. An outspoken female photographer whose images are fueled by the distinctive political climate of her native Okinawa...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 10 (1)
Published: 18 November 2019
.... Mencarini, who had served as president, was also a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. Looking at the society’s exhibitions, awards, and lectures, we can see that there was no lack of photographers at their same level. Female photographers . Female photographers were involved...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 2 (2)
Published: 01 April 2012
... comprehensive; there are, of course, many others whose work needs to be better known. The phrase “Women’s Camera Work” was originally coined by Judith Fryer Davidov as the title of a groundbreaking book in which she rewrote the history of photography in the U.S. around key female photographers. By titling...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 7 (1)
Published: 01 October 2016
... that this is not the only venture; I anticipate further in-depth studies, in particular research on female photographers active in the twentieth century.) I make no attempt here to argue that Lee Fook Chee is the only non-salon photographer working at this time in Hong Kong, and it is not my intention to dichotomize...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 8 (1)
Published: 12 October 2017
... a photographic subject’s desire glides dangerously close to arguments about intentionality or authorship that are highly susceptible. For example, the claim (also made in the Conclusion) that a female photographer causes “an agency [to] coalesce within the photographic frame” because “one sees the world through...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 7 (2)
Published: 01 May 2017
... Joseph Rock; the American missionary Albert Shelton; and the American yoga enthusiast Theos Bernard. Harris also discusses female photographers, such as the self-styled mystics Alexandra David-Néel and Li Gotami Govinda. The chapter ends, chronologically, with a new moment of imperialism in Tibet...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 7 (1)
Published: 01 October 2016
... award. Ishiuchi, who has spent more than 35 years pursuing a photographic vision that explores time and surface filtered through memory, is among only a handful of recognized female photographers from Japan’s postwar scene of the late 1960s through the ‘80s. From Yokosuka is a recent re-edit of images...
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Trans Asia Photography (2010) 1 (1)
Published: 01 September 2010
... “amateur” in the case of men—no female photographers feature in this volume—who worked in a period when a career in photography had few if any ancestral origins, except in commitments to the senior graphic forms of painting and engraving? The division between amateur and professional is at this date often...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 4 (2)
Published: 01 April 2014
.... As this studio is for photographing native ladies only, special arrangements had to be made to protect them from the gaze of the profane and the stern. So the place is surrounded by high walls, and all day long within this charmed enclosure Mrs. Kenny-Levick, aided by native female assistants, takes...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
... following World War II. Scholarship on transcultural contexts often treads carefully to avoid privileging Western perspectives. However,this essay purposefully centers on an African American, female amateur photographer in Japan. 2 Numerous accounts by African American image makers...
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Trans Asia Photography (2020) 10 (2)
Published: 24 April 2020
... the desire to be photographed by the twins went beyond avoiding the travails of putting up with harsh lighting. Debalina Mazumdar articulated this in an interview where she described her own discomfort with being on display. It could be possible that the female photographer was less judgmental and had more...
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Trans Asia Photography (2010) 1 (1)
Published: 01 September 2010
..., open to any artist of Chinese descent regardless of age or citizenship, is juried by a selection committee of international photo experts. Along with the Three Shadows award for newcomer of the year, additional honors were added in 2009: the Shiseido Prize for Best Female Photographer and The Tierney...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (2)
Published: 21 December 2021
... and photobook publishing by both male and female photographers. My selection is partly determined by the accessibility of available sources. For instance, this article does not touch upon photo zines, which were often found distributed as grassroots propaganda at the protest sites in Hong Kong and worldwide...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (2)
Published: 21 December 2021
...” of the “native” population. Hence women on South Asian tea plantations became allegories of “good” labour. Despite the centrality of the youthful female figure in tea photographs, early British documents concerning tea manufacture reveal anxiety around how the tea worker should be represented. Report...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
... and illuminate the fundamental incompatibility of the island's imaginaries of nation. Within such a context, state and nonstate actors projected political aspirations and fears onto Tamil women's bodies. The LTTE's photographs replicated globalized tropes of gun-bearing women as icons evoking revolutionary...
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