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in Photography in Vietnam from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Start of the Twentieth, by Nguyễn Ðức Hiệp
> Trans Asia Photography
Published: 01 April 2014
Fig. 16. George Planté, Laborers in a Silk Mill, Cholon.
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in Archival Collections of Asia Photographs in Singapore’s National Archives, National Library and National Museum
> Trans Asia Photography
Published: 01 November 2013
Fig. 4. Chinese labourers along the Singapore River, 1960. (K. F. Wong Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore)
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Published: 01 November 2022
Figure 8. Mordechai and Zipora Shchevitz in Abraham Soskin's studio. Abraham Soskin, 1920. Scanned glass plate, 24 × 30. Courtesy of the Pinchas Lavon Institute for Labor Movement Research, Museum Section, Tel Aviv.
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (1)
Published: 01 May 2022
... the chain of manufacture for albumen paper in Europe, comparing both to the material evidence in the album. By doing so, this article shows that the networks of information transfer, labor, and capital worked in tandem to create the conditions of production for the photographs. rahulsharmajammu...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
.... [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Lisa Trivedi 2023 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). photography India women labor Pranlal K. Patel Approximately a hundred photographs of women at work in the Bombay...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (2)
Published: 21 December 2021
... weight. Shot from below, her profile is set against a luminous sky, she is monumentalized, her labour seemingly effortless. W.L.H. Skeen & Company, the commercial photography firm that produced the image in the 1880s, titled it Plucking the leaf . The picture is part of a ubiquitous motif in tea...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (1)
Published: 10 June 2021
... of the archipelago and its labor diasporas. In the absence of a contiguous and ethnolinguistic homogeny, American colonial officials and native elites found difficult the problem of consolidating a national consciousness useful to the American colonial state in the Philippines. The memory and iconography of José...
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Trans Asia Photography (2018) 8 (2)
Published: 16 April 2018
... of city symphony films and street films, Horino portrays an urban landscape that is visibly stratified. From the fifth page, the bourgeois landscape gives way to a site of labor ( figure 4 ). The shift is announced by another text: “But there is another world here” and, further, “Koreans and Japanese...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (1)
Published: 10 June 2021
... the status quo. For instance, Faiham Ebna Sharif’s Cha Chakra: Tea Tales of Bangladesh (2016-ongoing) focused on the exploited baganiya or tea worker communities of Bangladesh, whose lives are shaped by the entwined histories of the colonial production of tea plantations and indentured labor. Sharif’s black...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 9 (2)
Published: 12 April 2019
... penury — job hunting, prostitution, cabarets, “nightlife” ( yoru no seikatsu ) and the regimentation of labor hours and public space by clocks, timecards, and trams at rush hour. Fig. 3. Horino Masao, spread from Ready • Set • Go , 1932. ©Masao Horino/Eiko Horino 2019. The montage’s final...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
... as alternatives to the hollow scripts of imperial liberation, the photographs I discuss here make visible Asian women's everyday labor for survival, which I read as a crucial site and practice of liberatory struggle. It is this labor that makes the photographs vibrate with possible futures than either renewed...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 7 (2)
Published: 01 May 2017
... and darkroom technicians “within six months.” 5 The unpredictable input of labor and materials for testing dye transfer was therefore contradictory to the Great Leap Forward’s demand for rapid productivity. It was not until the fall 1968 that Kodak Dye Transfer returned to research attention...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
..., Ahmedabad's premier women's social reform organization, the Jyoti Sangh, that made these women and their working lives visible. These photographs were not seen until decades later, when they were first adopted by labor activists who fought for the legal recognition and protection of women laborers...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 2 (2)
Published: 01 April 2012
..., along with Singapore and Malacca, and became part of the Malayan Union in 1946 and was in turn succeeded by the Federation of Malaya in 1948 and, today, Malaysia. Penang’s British rulers had imported Chinese and Indian immigrants and used the immigrants’ skills and labor to develop the labor-intensive...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 10 (1)
Published: 18 November 2019
... ). It depicts cargo workers on the pier at Incheon — the closest pier to Seoul. Im made the photograph when working as a photo-editor for Seoul Times. At first sight, the focus seems to center on the labor of the workers. However, a closer reading shows a highly planned composition, complicating what can...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (2)
Published: 01 November 2022
...Figure 8. Mordechai and Zipora Shchevitz in Abraham Soskin's studio. Abraham Soskin, 1920. Scanned glass plate, 24 × 30. Courtesy of the Pinchas Lavon Institute for Labor Movement Research, Museum Section, Tel Aviv. ...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 10 (1)
Published: 18 November 2019
... park/museum and underscores the real, material labor necessary to create such a fantastical environment. That the volume should open with such an image comes as no surprise, as Hamboussi conceived of both the sixty-page catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies in response to a Western thirst...
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Trans Asia Photography (2010) 1 (1)
Published: 01 September 2010
... zhan can zhan Hua gong ji shi 万里赴戎机 第一次世界大战参战华工记实 Over There: the Pictorial Chronicle of [the] Chinese Laborer Corps in the Great War . (Jinan: Shangdong Huabao Chubanshe, 2009), 188 pp. ISBN 9787807138009. France’s male work force was largely conscripted for military duty during WWI, resulting...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 3 (2)
Published: 01 April 2013
... the rescue of the monuments. We see some monuments in the state in which they were found: stones dislodged by vines, monsoon rains, and tree roots; and others we see in various stages of reconstruction. A unique feature of the selection of photos in this book is the inclusion of images showing laborers...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 4 (2)
Published: 01 April 2014
...Fig. 16. George Planté, Laborers in a Silk Mill, Cholon. ...
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