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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
...Thy Phu Abstract This introduction contends that debates on militarized visual cultures need to consider the active role of images in shaping perspectives on war and in mediating memories of its aftermaths in and across Asia. Doing so entails taking account of quotidian experiences of war as well...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
... embargo to weaken the LTTE's stronghold and severe restrictions on movement. The region consequently became wholly cloistered in a visual-material world of the Tigers' making. A culture of public art led by the LTTE's Arts and Culture Wing sought to recalibrate the visual, material, spatial, temporal...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 2 (2)
Published: 01 April 2012
... Chikako’s Choros of the Melodies series (2010) Picturing “Picturing” — Reflexive Photography by Nobuyoshi Araki Fifty Years of Shōwa : The Art of Kageyama Kōyō Contemporary Trends in Popular Photography in Indonesia Early Japanese Colonial Photography of the Ogasawara Islands The Specters of Militarized...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (1)
Published: 10 June 2021
...Thy Phu 4. Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho, eds., Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2010). See also Lisa Yoneyama, “Toward a Decolonial Genealogy of the Transpacific.” American Quarterly 69.3...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (1)
Published: 01 May 2022
... culture.” 8 In a sense, Sakhaiefar's work exposes the edges of war photography as images that alternately numb and incite to attention. And, at the edges lie the horrors of the actualities of war and displacement. Setting sights not on the rich, existing visual repertoire of mask-making associated...
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Trans Asia Photography (2018) 9 (1)
Published: 22 October 2018
... “visible invisibility” is an integral part — is one of three structuring principles that govern the scopic regime of the Israeli occupation. The second, surveillance, defines the visual sphere experienced by Palestinians as dominated by the militarized Israeli gaze, exemplified most aggressively...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 2 (1)
Published: 01 September 2011
..., and Revolution in Ba Jin’s Trilogy.” ANN SHERIF AND WENDY KOZOL Wendy Kozol is professor of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. Her research and teaching interests are on American visual culture, U.S. militarism, human rights discourse, and transnational feminisms. She is the author...
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Trans Asia Photography (2018) 9 (1)
Published: 22 October 2018
... centers on the intersections of visual studies, photography studies, and transpacific critique. She is the author of Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture and a coeditor of Feeling Photography . She is working on three projects: a monograph on the war in Vietnam from...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
... on an African American, female amateur photographer in Japan. 2 19. See the section “A Brief Overview of Afro-Japanese Cultural Exchange” in Bridges and Cornyetz, “Introduction: Work It,” 4–14 . For scholarship specifically on visual representations, see Fabricand-Person, “Images of American Racial...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 5 (1)
Published: 01 October 2014
... been largely overlooked by scholars of area studies and of visual studies. Family photos are relevant because of, not despite, their quotidian qualities. When it comes to understanding the visual culture of the Vietnamese diaspora, family photos increasingly interest me more than these other iconic...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 10 (1)
Published: 18 November 2019
... of cultural identity,” attempting to wrest the genre of landscape photography from the hands of imperialism (ibid.). Following Hamboussi’s brief introduction, the book presents work created between 1991 and 2019 by eleven photographers. The photographs appear uncaptioned, identified only in a list...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (1)
Published: 10 June 2021
... visual culture scholars Ariella Azoulay and Thy Phu might call a civil community of photography : civil in terms of conceptualizing aspirational forms of citizenship (Azoulay), as well as enacting an Asian diaspora politics of civility (Phu). Here, this civil community is an aspirational one, governed...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (2)
Published: 01 November 2022
...Tong Lam Abstract Drawing on field observations in Dandong and Sinuiju, corresponding border cities in China and North Korea, respectively, this extended visual essay meditates on the mutual imbrication of landscape and history in this border-contact zone. Whereas Chinese soldiers and tourists...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 9 (2)
Published: 12 April 2019
... montage and prohibit us from applying its lessons to our present day, but instead one that effectively teases out the multiple underlying antagonisms that overdetermine society and visualizes their implications. We may, thus, better appreciate photomontage’s plasticity, its capacity to formalize...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 3 (2)
Published: 01 April 2013
... of the images of a Tokyo that emerges and continues its reinvention after 1945. Militarism, barely glimpsed in the artistic renderings of Tokyo on display, fully disappears into a headlong striving for economic growth. A string quartet plays in the background of Nagano Shigeichi’s Salarymen at a Securities...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (1)
Published: 10 June 2021
... of family formation to inform how individuals experience the meaning of kinship over time. Considered together, the cultural representations and personal photographs here offer a lens for examining the entangled relationship between transnational adoption from Asia, the visuality of the transnational...
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Ogawa Kazumasa and the Halftone Photograph: Japanese War Albums at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Trans Asia Photography (2017) 7 (2)
Published: 28 April 2017
... Civil War 1936 – 1939. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986: 1. 14. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012: 36. 15. Ibid. 16. For histories of photomechanical...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 2 (1)
Published: 01 September 2011
... of Japan during the Meiji Restoration that followed, the early 20 th c. militarization of Japan and the Allied Forces occupation of 1945. All these put the relationship between Japan and Western cultures into a rather complex colonial framework. If we examine Morimura’s indulgence with images of Western...
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Trans Asia Photography (2024) 14 (1)
Published: 01 May 2024
... Xingxu, “Xi dao nüminbing” (“Militiawomen of the Western Islands”), published in Jiefangjun huabao in 1972. The militiawomen of the southern coastline were a common, if not ubiquitous, visual topos of the Cultural Revolution era, 48 illustrating as well as actively promoting the militarization...
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Trans Asia Photography (2024) 14 (1)
Published: 01 May 2024
...Xinyue Lulu Yuan Abstract Photographs from the 1938 photobook Rikou Baoxing Shilu ( Records of the Japanese Army's Atrocities ) made their way to postwar viewing contexts as iconic visual evidence of war crimes committed in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). Instead of narrating histories...
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