Photographies East
Subtitle: the camera and its histories in East and Southeast Asia
By: edited by Rosalind C. Morris.
Contributors: Morris, Rosalind C.
Series: Objects/histories : critical perspectives on art, material culture, and representation; Objects/histories
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780822341888; 9780822342052
Subjects: Photography -- Social aspects -- East Asia; Photography -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia; Photography -- East Asia -- History; Photography -- Southeast Asia -- History; East and West
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ghost in the machine / John Pemberton; title: The curse of the photograph : Atjeh 1901; title: James T. Siegel; title: The photography complex : exposing Boxer-era China (1900/1901), making civilization / James L. Hevia; title: Photography and the power of images in the history of power : notes from Thailand; title: Rosalind C. Morris; title: In and out of the picture : photography, ritual, and modernity in Aru, Indonesia / Patricia Spyer; title: Mysterious photographs / Nickola Pazderic; title: Abandoned cities seen anew : reflections on spatial specificity and temporal transience / Carlos Rojas; title: Dark enlightenment : Naitō  Masatoshi's flash / Marilyn Ivy; title: Cine-photography as racial technology : Tanizaki Junʼichirō's close-up on the  new/Oriental woman's face; title: Thomas Lamarre.