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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
... urbanization since its 1980s’ economic reform has been examined by various photographers, Chen's “urban landscape” trilogy, completed over the past decade, offers neither a panoramic view of China's urbanization nor close-ups of specific social and environmental issues; rather, it captures China's uneven...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (1)
Published: 01 May 2022
... and photochemical materialities that constitute a noise-like interface akin to the creative production of feedback in Noise music. As a redistribution of affective attunements that inhere within the urban landscape, this article discusses how Komatsu's photographic forms of feedback offer an evolving site...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 7 (2)
Published: 01 May 2017
... Deconstructed , Hong Kong Umbrella , Some More Hong Kong Seating Arrangements , Hong Kong Informal Seating Arrangements , Hong Kong Flora , and Hong Kong Trilogy. Wolf makes images that are concerned with the density of the urban landscape and the juxtaposition of private life and public space...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 4 (1)
Published: 01 November 2013
... extended families in rural areas to nuclear families in urban centres – but also promote a family model suited to the modernisation scheme of the military government [from the artcle’s abstract].” Jelena Stojkovic, “The City Vanishes: Urban Landscape in Staged Chinese Photography,” History...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 7 (2)
Published: 01 May 2017
... of sixty meters over land is undeniably appealing. Observing an urban landscape from above is fascinating for its patterns and harmony, moments of dissonance, or the surprise of a unique feature. New details seem to emerge with each viewing. Initially a technological innovation developed and exploited...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 3 (1)
Published: 01 September 2012
... of war. “A Country in Ruins,” the next chapter, depicts architectural damage resulting from the war, focusing largely on the urban landscape of South Korea. The chapter “In the Line of Fire” portrays troops, generally U.S. forces. The latter chapter also includes photographs of relevant political...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 4 (1)
Published: 01 November 2013
... through Suda’s modern lens. Almost the opposite seems to be happening in the photograph below ( figure 6 ), as three girls in traditional costume are illuminated against the urban landscape: Fig. 6. Miuramisaki Kanagawa, 1977 . Plate 7 from Fushi Kaden , by Suda Issei. Akio Nagasawa...
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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 (2012) 3 (1)
Published: 01 September 2012
... backdrops depicting natural or urban landscapes, traditional Korean countryside, or exotic Hawaiian landscapes. The photographs show soldiers in many different relationships and moods. For example, a white soldier marrying a Korean woman is beaming at their wedding banquet; another soldier is frowning next...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (2)
Published: 01 November 2022
... into a matrix of feel-good stories about China in its contrast to North Korea. But China's own recent past is itself a messy affair. It lacks the kind of visual clarity that new and restored historic infrastructures seem to offer. That messiness is perhaps most fully manifested in Dandong's urban landscape...
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Trans Asia Photography (2018) 8 (2)
Published: 16 April 2018
...Qiuzi Guo 2018 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. Jin Shisheng (金石声; legal name, Jin Jingchang) has the dual identities of an outstanding urban planner and a pioneering amateur photographer. Born to a merchant family...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 6 (1)
Published: 01 October 2015
... development and the rapid urban transformations. 7 Along with the traditional means of holding on to the present appearance, artistic strategies are being created in response to the overwhelming pace and extent of change in contemporary China. The constant changes have shaped a moving reality beyond...
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Trans Asia Photography (2010) 1 (1)
Published: 01 September 2010
... to the textures and markings of an arid landscape, have been described as exploring a “human ecology.” Lu Yuanmin’s photographs exploring memory in Shanghai, composed of smudges and blurs of light and shadow, have been noted for their attention to urban “props” and “scenes” and their often dilapidated surfaces...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 4 (2)
Published: 01 April 2014
.... Of course, the metropolitan and urban environments that Bennett describes were the primary sites of the most traceable history of early photography in China. Most traceable. We still know too little concerning the beginnings of studio businesses outside towns, and virtually nothing concerning itinerant...
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Trans Asia Photography (2010) 1 (1)
Published: 01 September 2010
... author takes up three of them in her essay. Tucker covers Landscapes, Urbanization and Globalization, and Anxiety, while Sinsheimer treats Korean Cultural Identity and Individual Identity, Memory, and Family. The “Landscapes” section includes photographs connected to the Spiritualist tradition...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 5 (2)
Published: 01 April 2015
... in a landscape when “viewed at close range” (Kuo, 35), are, in Zhang’s photographs, a pervasive human imprint of urbanization and industrial development that reaches rural areas. The palette encompasses the yellowish hues of the loess plateau and the blackened soils of pollutant extractive industries. Occasional...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 5 (1)
Published: 01 October 2014
... were given compact digital cameras and a little instruction to document their lives, and the urban world they now find themselves in. The result is a collection of images that tell powerful stories of life in rapid transition and of how indigenous identities are being shaped and re-shaped [source...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 5 (2)
Published: 01 April 2015
... and Rajesh Vangad, Destroying the Forest , from “Fields of Sight”, 2014, ink on archival pigment print, © Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad, courtesy the artists. Denuded landscapes, infested and opaque waters filled with sewage and chemical sludge, garbage dumps, abandoned houses and communities have all...
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Trans Asia Photography (2013) 3 (2)
Published: 01 April 2013
... Korea’s past. 4 All of these exhibitions and publications are invaluable sources that provide us with a fuller documentation of life and landscape of the late-19 th century and early-20 th century Korea. Interestingly, however, many if not all of the photographs in these volumes are images taken...
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Early Twentieth-Century Art Photography in China: Adopting, Domesticating, and Embracing the Foreign
Trans Asia Photography (2013) 3 (2)
Published: 01 April 2013
...), no. 7 (July 1933). The enunciation and spread of such an advocacy for realism in literature clearly had relevance for all the arts as well. Although Hu Shi never addressed any art other than literature, his critical position seems almost an invitation to photographers to engage in urban street...
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