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![Figure 19. Back of figure 18. Courtesy of Akkasah, the photography archive at al Mawrid, NYUAD. Copyright al Mawrid. The note reads, “Nadiye bir az çirkin ama kusura bakma olmaz mı?” (Nadiye, [the picture is] a little ugly but you do not mind, right?).](https://dup.silverchair-cdn.com/dup/Content_public/Journal/trans-asia-photography/12/1/10.1215_21582025-9710592/9/s_tap9710592figure19.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=R~6G2bjoehad2qig7USlIbrHCRQJN4ntN9JorKp3bcjADDwOouQqHPlaklajQl2SjTMg--~hQfFUFR2yIHrtURH1xNSXs6bVAJSfTKTRUa-YQ4bGsLhED8bPzSOOzlkuNqx~-Ycv0zHdG9cMPfl0R5DXNXIqEMSDFWoqzS239V2Iyj3RHiH7bGLlvHJIGYvfYxYxnfdth3uGYFSfO0bE8OAk33K1-lctbV7qPNkOr2Uka2OepNswI2NO5WZ8wfFrkae82R4jK23knYYYDKdXRh5NLduJNWXD448C0B0HyNfYD8KV5ghvFt5JBY~7YLJ9Mq5ZeBCJvq0MgXpI2YHXTg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
in Toward Understanding the Photogenic New Citizen: Performance in Vernacular Photography from the Early Turkish Republic, 1920s–1940s
> Trans Asia Photography
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 19. Back of figure 18 . Courtesy of Akkasah, the photography archive at al Mawrid, NYUAD. Copyright al Mawrid. The note reads, “Nadiye bir az çirkin ama kusura bakma olmaz mı?” (Nadiye, [the picture is] a little ugly but you do not mind, right?).
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![Figure 4. Back of figure 3. Courtesy of Akkasah, the photography archive at al Mawrid, NYUAD. Copyright al Mawrid. The note reads, “Kardeşim Suna: Bu çirkin gölgemle beni unutmayacaksın, değilmi? Nermin Bingöl” (To my sister [?] Suna: You will not forget me with this ugly shadow of me, will you? Nermin Bingöl).](https://dup.silverchair-cdn.com/dup/Content_public/Journal/trans-asia-photography/12/1/10.1215_21582025-9710592/9/s_tap9710592figure4.png?Expires=2147483647&Signature=0E5h5d7qVYVr4RzKTWmevVHVqnVWAY4NjJYdtw4TO9DjR8VPZERErkMniVDVygXTwHCVLGZqsMzhl9FpEia4DG~HygCm2cMlFBYhZXtHJXvim0SZvXAnhOfUsqhZH8y3KzsOhojlEB94CCqV3mG3fNsB~fNfmMuZihJ~aLY~dCLK0kwEguXVfd9LmiqAkv84po9465RRFduJfOl04NpLHZ8n6JinVVbkqPQRUwbPWXWW~htWmTahUORlTk0y8IuppKREb4B~0hcIInU5YYB9hdJ0mFBN5aLTdaYJjZ1v8uBE7-i1l93uSFoB1Ba4GaGtsYT1dic-GngNoetV6O68cg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
in Toward Understanding the Photogenic New Citizen: Performance in Vernacular Photography from the Early Turkish Republic, 1920s–1940s
> Trans Asia Photography
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 4. Back of figure 3 . Courtesy of Akkasah, the photography archive at al Mawrid, NYUAD. Copyright al Mawrid. The note reads, “Kardeşim Suna: Bu çirkin gölgemle beni unutmayacaksın, değilmi? Nermin Bingöl” (To my sister [?] Suna: You will not forget me with this ugly shadow of me
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 3 (2)
Published: 01 April 2013
... into the category of being cấm kỳ (taboo). They are restricted or forbidden because of folk beliefs or state ideologies, which often operate together. They are all considered ugly, although no one may say so directly. Ugly itself is a word to be avoided. It is considered a rude term that can destroy someone’s...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (1)
Published: 01 May 2022
...Figure 19. Back of figure 18 . Courtesy of Akkasah, the photography archive at al Mawrid, NYUAD. Copyright al Mawrid. The note reads, “Nadiye bir az çirkin ama kusura bakma olmaz mı?” (Nadiye, [the picture is] a little ugly but you do not mind, right?). ...
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Recent Publications of Note
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 4 (2)
Published: 01 April 2014
... “...is a pioneer of Chinese contemporary photography whose works often veer away from conventional beauty and focus on finding the coexistence of the ugly and the poignant in a single frame.” Source: Publisher’s webpage. John Tagg, “ The Mute Testimony of the Picture: British Paper Photography and India...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 3 (2)
Published: 01 April 2013
... the notion of realism in an aesthetic system that is more inclined to deny “the ugly” and banish it from sight. These authors show us that seriously speaking of photographs in terms of culture does not mean applying simple labels or categories; it is a process as complex and evolving as culture itself...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 6 (2)
Published: 01 April 2016
...” (Ledgerwood quoted in Caswell 65). Pro-Vietnamese rhetoric failed to censure the ugly realities of Communism, condemning rather the moral turpitude of Khmer Rouge leaders in an effort to rouse support for the new PRK government. Drawing on this example, Caswell demonstrates that the Tuol Sleng mug shots were...
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Trans Asia Photography (2016) 7 (1)
Published: 01 October 2016
... them. Daumier’s Third Class Carriage (c. 1862–64) was the first time I had seen an honest, but ugly, depiction of the working class. His works were an authentic [ zhenshi ] representation of his social reality, and this deeply impressed me. My father was a factory worker and I grew up in a factory...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 6 (1)
Published: 01 October 2015
.... Envisioning the disappearing, at the center of my work lies a sense of melancholy and nostalgia, quite helplessly.” 16 Through the artist’s digital manipulations, the dustproof netting not only conceals a disturbing environment—the ugliness of daily life—but also shapes a representative visual element...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
... line is forgotten on this side of the ocean, although occasionally it rears its ugly head among some few individuals.” 5 While such comments are inflected with experiences steeped in exoticism, class identity, and historically specific notions of race, the color line in Japan was redrawn with new...
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Reconsidering Everyday Life Photography: Saenghwalchuŭi Sajin in South Korea in the 1950s and 1960s
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 10 (1)
Published: 18 November 2019
... for three days after I experienced the Korean War as a war photographer. (...) Photography doesn’t exist only for expressing beauty. Photography should express every phenomenon in life. Regardless of whether it is beautiful or ugly, everything is a subject of photography. That is what I understood during...
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Trans Asia Photography (2019) 9 (2)
Published: 12 April 2019
... and included in the official record. One such example written under the direction of Ahmed Cevad Paşa states: “It has been notified that the permission will be granted on the condition that no absurd and ugly photographs are taken, printed or sent out. A copy of each image must be presented and reviewed...
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The Charismatic Index: Photographic Representations of Power and Status in the Thai Social Order
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 3 (2)
Published: 01 April 2013
... rides on his elephant named Eravana surrounded by the devata (angels) who are his followers.” 32 Those without such merit, as a result of evil deeds in past lives, are “born in desperate straits, have no clothes to cover themselves, have nothing to eat, are terribly destitute, and have an ugly...
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