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Photographies East – The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia: Objects/Histories

Autor Rosalind C. Morris
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mar 2009
Introducing "Photographies" "East," Rosalind C. Morris notes that although the camera is now a taken-for-granted element of everyday life in most parts of the world, it is difficult to appreciate the shock and sense of utter improbability that accompanied the new technology as it was introduced in Asia (and elsewhere). In this collection, scholars of Asia, most of whom are anthropologists, describe frequent attribution of spectral powers to the camera, first brought to Asia by colonialists, as they examine the transformations precipitated or accelerated by the spread of photography across East and Southeast Asia. In essays resonating across theoretical, historical, and geopolitical lines, they engage with photography in China, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand, and on the islands of Aru, Aceh, and Java in what is now Indonesia. The contributors analyze how in specific cultural and historical contexts, the camera has affected experiences of time and subjectivity, practices of ritual and tradition, and understandings of death. They highlight the links between photography and power, looking at how the camera has figured in the operations of colonialism, the development of nationalism, the transformation of monarchy, and the militarization of violence. Moving beyond a consideration of historical function or effect, the contributors also explore the forms of illumination and revelation for which the camera has offered itself as instrument and symbol. And they trace the emergent forms of alienation and spectralization, as well as the new kinds of fetishism, that photography has brought in its wake. Taken together, the essays chart a bravely interdisciplinary path to visual studies, one that places the particular knowledge of a historicized anthropology in a comparative frame and in conversation with aesthetics and art history.
"Contributors." James L. Hevia, Marilyn Ivy, Thomas LaMarre, Rosalind C. Morris, Nickola Pazderic, John Pemberton, Carlos Rojas, James T. Siegel, Patricia Spyer"
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822342052
ISBN-10: 0822342057
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 59 b&w photographs
Dimensiuni: 178 x 255 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria Objects/Histories


Cuprins

Introduction. Photographies East: The Camera and Its Histories in East and Southeast Asia/Rosalind C. Morris; The Ghost in the Machine/John Pemberton; The Curse of the Photograph: Atjeh 1901/James T. Siegel; The Photography Complex: Exposing Boxer-Era China (1900–1901), Making Civilization/James L. Hevia; Photography and the Power of Images in the History of Power: Notes from Thailand/Rosalind C. Morris; In and Out of the Picture: Photography, Ritual, and Modernity in Aru, Indonesia/Patricia Spyer; Mysterious Photographs/Nickola Pazderic; Abandoned Cities Seen Anew: Reflections on Spatial Specificity and Temporal Transience/Carlos Rojas; Dark Enlightenment: Naito Masatoshi’s Flash/Marilyn Ivy; Cine-Photography as Racial Technology: Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s Close-up on the New/Oriental Woman’s Face/Thomas LaMarreBibliography; Contributors; Index

Recenzii

“Photographies East is remarkable in many ways. As the first systematic consideration of photography in East and Southeast Asia, it offers some of the most acute reflections on the different workings and effects of photography in non-Western contexts. It will also stir fresh thinking about the relationship between history and anthropology in the wake of the camera.” Vicente Rafael, author of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines“Through its ‘radical attention to the unexpected,’ this bold and provocative collection asks vital questions about the disturbance created by photography. The sweep and intensity of this stellar ensemble make an essential contribution to our understanding of the photographic world-system.”—Christopher Pinney, author of Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs

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""Photographies East" is remarkable in many ways. As the first systematic consideration of photography in East and Southeast Asia, it offers some of the most acute reflections on the different workings and effects of photography in non-Western contexts. It will also stir fresh thinking about the relationship between history and anthropology in the wake of the camera."--Vicente L. Rafael, author of "The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines"

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Scholars of Asia, most of whom are anthropologists, examine the transformations precipitated or accelerated by the spread of photography across East and Southeast Asia