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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 8 (1)
Published: 12 October 2017
...Mariam Rahmani Staci Gem Scheiwiller , Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Iranian Photography: Desirous Bodies ( London : Routledge , 2017 ), 240 pp. ISBN: 9781138201293 2017 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial...
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Trans Asia Photography (2020) 10 (2)
Published: 24 April 2020
... culture drives the atmosphere of liminality that shrouds many of Eng’s photographs. In an eloquent introduction to China Dream , Vanessa Hua remarks on her own experiences as a second-generation child of the Chinese diaspora as she grew up in California: “Even after my parents became U.S. citizens and my...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 8 (1)
Published: 12 October 2017
... that even “art for art’s sake” cannot escape politics. Just as vernacular photography has distinct cultural presences, the idea of photography as art manifests differently in each historical situation. Mariam Rahmani reviews Staci Gem Scheiwiller’s recent book, Liminalities of Gender...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
... is currently undergoing rapid canonization. However, the lack of archives or collections, and their subsequent reemergence, continues to challenge conventional accounts. This unique state of liminality between “stability” and “mutability” enables Chang to not only explore the construction of photography...
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Trans Asia Photography (2018) 9 (1)
Published: 22 October 2018
... and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986), 131 – 50. 7. The scope of this article precludes addressing why elites patronized photography more than did average people on the street. For a longer explanation, see Staci Gem Scheiwiller, Liminalities of Gender and Sexuality...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
... is less seen these days in broad daylight. 6 What can be seen, instead, is the shifting landscapes, the land between agriculture and industry ( fig. 3 ). I grew up in rural China before I moved to the city, so maybe that's why these clashing landscapes and liminal spaces are especially interesting...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 3 (1)
Published: 01 September 2012
... sentiments, such as loss, agony, remorse, and sadness felt by the club workers. Further, by choosing to render their presence through the motif of the narrow gates, she implies the liminal state of their existence that oscillates between being and non-being. Finally, The Narrow Sorrow bears witness...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 9 (2)
Published: 12 April 2019
... are printed on cotton cloth in the five colors of the elements of Buddhist cosmology and placed at sites of sanctity or liminal points in the landscape, such as mountain passes and river crossings. However, in the Pitt Rivers installation, only green, red, yellow, and blue feature in the backdrops...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
... and further illuminate how Wulia deploys found photographs to unsettle misremembered histories. Tracing these early interchanges between photograph, video, and installation, I propose that Wulia accesses and occupies a liminal space of spectrality, secrecy, and haunting, transforming it into a site...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 2 (2)
Published: 01 April 2012
..., deliberately evoking emotion, rather than relying on the direct experience of visual footage. Jain takes on the role of the storyteller of storytellers, on liminal ground between the subjective and objective, injecting emotion into the document through music by Boris Krzisnik and sound design by Niraj Gera...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (1)
Published: 01 May 2022
... us of the photographic image's liminality, of a mode of photographic seeing that has been obscured by its subsequent history: photography is also a medium of shadows. Media studies scholars have noticed how the occultist boom in early twentieth-century China coincided with the emergence...
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Trans Asia Photography (2018) 9 (1)
Published: 22 October 2018
... a liminal space: it cannot be said to “state an interpretation,” nor can it be understood as a direct material vestige of the thing it visually represents. Batniji’s images are, in a literal sense, indices not of the figures they portray but of a manually operated tool and, by extension, the artist’s hand...
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