Photographies East : the camera and its histories in East and Southeast Asia / edited by Rosalind C. Morris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morris, Rosalind C.

Series:

Objects/histories.

Objects/histories : critical perspectives on art, material culture, and representation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Social aspects--East Asia.

Photography.

Photography--Social aspects--Southeast Asia.

Photography--East Asia--History.

Photography--Southeast Asia--History.

East and West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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 : Naitō Masatoshi's flash / Marilyn Ivy

Cine-photography as racial technology : Tanizaki Junʼichirō's close-up on the new/Oriental woman's face / Thomas Lamarre.

Notes:

Description based on print version record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-03632-0

9786613036322

0-8223-9182-1

OCLC:

611104489