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Trans Asia Photography (2024) 14 (1)
Published: 01 May 2024
... are much less adept at describing knowledge and feelings arising from visual observations. It is as if the existing vocabulary in the verbal and written language is inadequate for this. Figure 12. From the series Centralia by Poulomi Basu, 2010–20. Courtesy of Poulomi Basu. Figure 12. From...
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Trans Asia Photography (2024) 14 (1)
Published: 01 May 2024
... violence to contend with, Basu understands this and how the intersectionality of race, class, caste, and gender merge, with dangerous consequences. Her photography attests to it and contributes to a growing contemporary visual language which proposes an important link between ecocide and femicide...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (1)
Published: 01 May 2022
... human migration and militarism, making absent the bodies of the displaced peoples who are ostensibly the subject of such photographs—or so we can glean from the series' host of visual cues. Re-contextualizable yet bound to genre, 4 the stock images must draw from a preexisting visual language...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 3 (1)
Published: 01 September 2012
... work and the current still-photography project is the formal, visual language of layering and juxtaposing of two different strata, one on top of the other, a strategy I pay special attention to. The commission’s instructions to Yamashiro explicitly requested that she put aside the painful thematic...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 8 (1)
Published: 12 October 2017
... before and Shortly after the Arrival of Photography,” puts forth one such thesis of hybridity, representing Qajar Iranian photography as a new “language” that incorporated elements of, but did “not always rely on” earlier Iranian image production, including but not limited to painting, and foreign visual...
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Trans Asia Photography (2010) 1 (1)
Published: 01 September 2010
... and the Western world regarding the psychology of color (such as the meaning of “yellow” and “violet”) and regarding the significance of visual symbols (such as the meaning of “dragon” or “octopus”) .In addition to culturally specific visual languages, there are also medium-specific visual languages. In order...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 3 (1)
Published: 01 September 2012
... with their grim historical significance, and their relationship to people. Straddling documentary and artistic photography, The Bomb Ponds recounts an important yet dreadful history through (a visual language of natural) beauty. Unlike provocative images of war that show acts of ferocity, The Bomb Ponds...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (2)
Published: 01 November 2023
... contemporary Indonesian artists and the desire to find an authentic visual language of their own which would be capable of responding to and expressing the realities of contemporary Indonesian society. 7 After the relaxation of censorship laws, those who were considered the pioneers of experimental art...
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Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1)
Published: 01 May 2023
.... Working at the intersections between commercial war photographer and personal documentarian for his GI friends, Waddell draws from and invokes a vernacular language for visualizing warfare. The subjectivity enshrined in his off-duty approach is not without the cultural and institutional dictates...
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Trans Asia Photography (2010) 1 (1)
Published: 01 September 2010
... and problems, resulting in creation and innovation in terms of form, style, and visual language.” 3 Chinese artists, isolated by political circumstances from 1949-1979, had, by the late 1980’s, reconnected with what artists were doing in the rest of the world. They assimilated new and available...
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Trans Asia Photography (2021) 11 (2)
Published: 21 December 2021
...) and Migrations: Humanity in Transitio n (2000), are the pinnacle of this "Family of Man" style of grand visual narrative and unified photographic discourse in the West. 34 The aestheticized photographic language in these works presents a universalized meaning that obscures and erases the highly differentiated...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 2 (1)
Published: 01 September 2011
... the rear view - suggests Bernard’s privileged access, as well as his willingness to invoke it. He also treats his “subjects” with a different visual language than that of his own self-portraits. This reverse headshot shows the costume in scientific detail in a manner that marks the sitter as a “specimen...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 5 (1)
Published: 01 October 2014
...?” and “Do I want to stay here permanently?” In Nepali Diaspora I have realized that I am stuck here and it is about that realization and the introspection that comes in between. Also the visual language is more developed in Nepali Diaspora . Fig. 4. Surendra Lawoti, Everest , from Chicago...
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Trans Asia Photography (2011) 2 (1)
Published: 01 September 2011
... NISHIMURA MORSE, chair 2:00-3:00 Panel: Japanese Visions of Self and Other (Part I) Saturday, May 21 Lenore Metrick-Chen is Associate Professor of Art History at Drake University. Her work explores visual art as a language of cultural communication, seen in her articles and book chapters...
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Trans Asia Photography (2015) 5 (2)
Published: 01 April 2015
... of photographs of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which struck on 11 March 2011. The earthquake caused enormous destruction and damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Seventeen photographers are represented in the catalog. “Taken as a whole, their work explores the way art provides a powerful language...
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Trans Asia Photography (2017) 8 (1)
Published: 12 October 2017
... with touch-screen page-turning kiosks and timed projections to reveal an entire book. Yet the need to touch and hold a book as a way to fully connect with a photographer’s visual language is limited within the museum context. Some museums are setting up reading rooms with tables populated by facsimiles...
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Trans Asia Photography (2022) 12 (1)
Published: 01 May 2022
... “photographed” immortal spirits but used shadow to render their spectral likeness. Situating this conception of photography in the Daoist practice of visualizing the formless and the true, this article asks: what is the implication of marrying the ancient search for the invisible with an obsession...
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Trans Asia Photography (2012) 3 (1)
Published: 01 September 2012
..., those sensitive to the pragmatic value of language or the context of language usage might find it difficult to refer to these photographs as ‘landscape.’ In a larger sense, such a critique is based on the theoretical presupposition that ‘landscape’ in the modern sense, especially the history...
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Trans Asia Photography (2014) 4 (2)
Published: 01 April 2014
... will also enjoy the high standard of visual reproduction and the fitting design format ensured by Bernard Quaritch. Somewhat less accessible are the principles of the volume’s internal arrangement as well as the editorial divisions between the content of this and earlier China volumes. Bennett allows...
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Trans Asia Photography (2010) 1 (1)
Published: 01 September 2010
... on visual culture. Three central concerns unify the essays that constitute this book: temporality (anticipation of death, memory), excess (of meaning, language, image), and the foreign (glossed variously as the modern and the sublime). The authors argue that these are the things that make photographs...
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