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Pictorial Photography from the 1950s to the 1970s
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Photography in Asia, Volume: 2
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Imagining Singapore is the first comprehensive study on the history of Pictorial photography in Singapore. Drawing from interviews, unpublished historical data and newly discovered photographs, the book unveils a fascinating aspect of visual culture and its links to global Pictorialism. While Singapore experienced sweeping changes from independence and industrialisation, Pictorial photography took on multiple roles, acting as a symbol of democracy and modernity, staging national identity and providing a mechanism for Singaporeans to engage with ideas of the past, present and future. Such photographs shaped the way modern Singapore was imagined and represented for decades to come.
Pictorial Photography from the 1950s to the 1970s
Series:
Photography in Asia, Volume: 2
Author:
Imagining Singapore is the first comprehensive study on the history of Pictorial photography in Singapore. Drawing from interviews, unpublished historical data and newly discovered photographs, the book unveils a fascinating aspect of visual culture and its links to global Pictorialism. While Singapore experienced sweeping changes from independence and industrialisation, Pictorial photography took on multiple roles, acting as a symbol of democracy and modernity, staging national identity and providing a mechanism for Singaporeans to engage with ideas of the past, present and future. Such photographs shaped the way modern Singapore was imagined and represented for decades to come.
The Broad Movement
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Spatial Practices, Volume: 39
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This book is an investigation of the widely overlooked photographic style of pictorialism in the American West between 1900 and 1950 and argues that western pictorialist photographers were regionalists that had their roots in the formidable photographic heritage of the nineteenth-century West. Driven by a wealth of textual and visual primary sources, the book addresses the West’s relationship with the eastern centers of art in the early century, the diversity of practitioners such as women, Japanese Americans, Indigenous Americans, western rural workers, etc., and the style’s final demise as it related to the modernism of Group F.64. Couched in the rhetoric of regionalism; it is a refreshing and innovative approach to an overlooked wealth of American cultural production.
The Broad Movement
Series:
Spatial Practices, Volume: 39
Author:
This book is an investigation of the widely overlooked photographic style of pictorialism in the American West between 1900 and 1950 and argues that western pictorialist photographers were regionalists that had their roots in the formidable photographic heritage of the nineteenth-century West. Driven by a wealth of textual and visual primary sources, the book addresses the West’s relationship with the eastern centers of art in the early century, the diversity of practitioners such as women, Japanese Americans, Indigenous Americans, western rural workers, etc., and the style’s final demise as it related to the modernism of Group F.64. Couched in the rhetoric of regionalism; it is a refreshing and innovative approach to an overlooked wealth of American cultural production.
Primary Sources Collections
Collection of about c. 37,000 photographs documenting the early and late medieval Christian architectural arts of Georgia and its historical area of settlement. Collection divided into 8 volumes, each containing about 6,000 photographs, including plans, sectional drawings, a short account of the building's historical and architectural features, as well as a bibliography for each monument. A map indicates the location of each site.
Das US-amerikanische Fotobuch im Diskurs des 20. Jahrhunderts bei Susan Sontag und Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Das Buch widmet sich der unauflösbaren, mythischen Verknüpfung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der Fotografie, die ihr medienspezifisches Musterbeispiel im »Fotobuch« gefunden hat. Als Ausgangspunkt dient der 1991 erschienene Bildband L’Amérique furtivement des französischen Fotografen Henri Cartier-Bresson. Anhand dessen Publikations- und Ausstellungsgeschichte wird nachgezeichnet, wie Cartier-Bressons Amerika-Bilder Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zwar eine Revitalisierung erfahren, eine breitere Rezeption jedoch ausbleibt. Die marginalisierte Auseinandersetzung mit Cartier-Bressons Amerika-Bild ist ein Spiegel des ambivalenten Verhältnisses zwischen dem französischen Fotografen und den Vereinigten Staaten: zwar wird er hier früh in Ausstellungen präsentiert, seine Fotografien von Amerika werden jedoch nie Teil des Kanons einer »amerikanischen Fotografie«.
Vor diesem Hintergrund zeichnet der Autor die Rahmenbedingungen dieser »Verkennung« nach, die sich zum einen im Mythos des »decisive moments« verorten lässt, der als fotografisches Konzept Cartier-Bressons Œuvre überstrahlt. Zum anderen wird der insbesondere US-amerikanische Diskurs der »American Photography« sichtbargemacht, dessen Inanspruchnahme der Fotografie als ein nationales, amerikanisches Medium »Regeln« und Narrative entwirft, in die sich Cartier-Bressons Reportage-Fotografie nicht einpassen lässt.
Die Arbeit mündet in einer Auseinandersetzung mit Susan Sontags Essay-Sammlung On Photography (1977), deren Texte als paradigmatische Stimme dieses Diskurses den Mythos einer amerikanischen Fotografie einerseits aufgreifen und bestätigen, sowie andererseits eine intellektuelle Rede zur Schau stellen, deren populär gewordene Lesart »gegen« Fotografie eine exklusive Kritik am Fotobuch/Bildband ist, die in diesem Buch erstmals herausgearbeitet wird.
Vor diesem Hintergrund zeichnet der Autor die Rahmenbedingungen dieser »Verkennung« nach, die sich zum einen im Mythos des »decisive moments« verorten lässt, der als fotografisches Konzept Cartier-Bressons Œuvre überstrahlt. Zum anderen wird der insbesondere US-amerikanische Diskurs der »American Photography« sichtbargemacht, dessen Inanspruchnahme der Fotografie als ein nationales, amerikanisches Medium »Regeln« und Narrative entwirft, in die sich Cartier-Bressons Reportage-Fotografie nicht einpassen lässt.
Die Arbeit mündet in einer Auseinandersetzung mit Susan Sontags Essay-Sammlung On Photography (1977), deren Texte als paradigmatische Stimme dieses Diskurses den Mythos einer amerikanischen Fotografie einerseits aufgreifen und bestätigen, sowie andererseits eine intellektuelle Rede zur Schau stellen, deren populär gewordene Lesart »gegen« Fotografie eine exklusive Kritik am Fotobuch/Bildband ist, die in diesem Buch erstmals herausgearbeitet wird.
Das US-amerikanische Fotobuch im Diskurs des 20. Jahrhunderts bei Susan Sontag und Henri Cartier-Bresson
Author:
Das Buch widmet sich der unauflösbaren, mythischen Verknüpfung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der Fotografie, die ihr medienspezifisches Musterbeispiel im »Fotobuch« gefunden hat. Als Ausgangspunkt dient der 1991 erschienene Bildband L’Amérique furtivement des französischen Fotografen Henri Cartier-Bresson. Anhand dessen Publikations- und Ausstellungsgeschichte wird nachgezeichnet, wie Cartier-Bressons Amerika-Bilder Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts zwar eine Revitalisierung erfahren, eine breitere Rezeption jedoch ausbleibt. Die marginalisierte Auseinandersetzung mit Cartier-Bressons Amerika-Bild ist ein Spiegel des ambivalenten Verhältnisses zwischen dem französischen Fotografen und den Vereinigten Staaten: zwar wird er hier früh in Ausstellungen präsentiert, seine Fotografien von Amerika werden jedoch nie Teil des Kanons einer »amerikanischen Fotografie«.
Vor diesem Hintergrund zeichnet der Autor die Rahmenbedingungen dieser »Verkennung« nach, die sich zum einen im Mythos des »decisive moments« verorten lässt, der als fotografisches Konzept Cartier-Bressons Œuvre überstrahlt. Zum anderen wird der insbesondere US-amerikanische Diskurs der »American Photography« sichtbargemacht, dessen Inanspruchnahme der Fotografie als ein nationales, amerikanisches Medium »Regeln« und Narrative entwirft, in die sich Cartier-Bressons Reportage-Fotografie nicht einpassen lässt.
Die Arbeit mündet in einer Auseinandersetzung mit Susan Sontags Essay-Sammlung On Photography (1977), deren Texte als paradigmatische Stimme dieses Diskurses den Mythos einer amerikanischen Fotografie einerseits aufgreifen und bestätigen, sowie andererseits eine intellektuelle Rede zur Schau stellen, deren populär gewordene Lesart »gegen« Fotografie eine exklusive Kritik am Fotobuch/Bildband ist, die in diesem Buch erstmals herausgearbeitet wird.
Vor diesem Hintergrund zeichnet der Autor die Rahmenbedingungen dieser »Verkennung« nach, die sich zum einen im Mythos des »decisive moments« verorten lässt, der als fotografisches Konzept Cartier-Bressons Œuvre überstrahlt. Zum anderen wird der insbesondere US-amerikanische Diskurs der »American Photography« sichtbargemacht, dessen Inanspruchnahme der Fotografie als ein nationales, amerikanisches Medium »Regeln« und Narrative entwirft, in die sich Cartier-Bressons Reportage-Fotografie nicht einpassen lässt.
Die Arbeit mündet in einer Auseinandersetzung mit Susan Sontags Essay-Sammlung On Photography (1977), deren Texte als paradigmatische Stimme dieses Diskurses den Mythos einer amerikanischen Fotografie einerseits aufgreifen und bestätigen, sowie andererseits eine intellektuelle Rede zur Schau stellen, deren populär gewordene Lesart »gegen« Fotografie eine exklusive Kritik am Fotobuch/Bildband ist, die in diesem Buch erstmals herausgearbeitet wird.
Changing Visual and Material Culture
Yearbook Volume 19 continues an investigation which began with Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-45 (Volume 6, 2004). Twelve chapters, ten in English and two in German, address and analyse the significant contribution of émigrés across the applied arts, embracing mainstream practices such as photography, architecture, advertising, graphics, printing, textiles and illustration, alongside less well known fields of animation, typography and puppetry. New research adds to narratives surrounding familiar émigré names such as Oskar Kokoschka and Wolf Suschitzky, while revealing previously hidden contributions from lesser known practitioners. Overall, the volume provides a valuable addition to the understanding of the applied arts in Britain from the 1930s onwards, particularly highlighting difficulties faced by refugees attempting to continue fractured careers in a new homeland.
Contributors are: Rachel Dickson, Burcu Dogramaci, Deirdre Fernand, Fran Lloyd, David Low, John March, Sarah MacDougall, Anna Nyburg, Pauline Paucker, Ines Schlenker, Wilfried Weinke, and Julia Winckler.
Contributors are: Rachel Dickson, Burcu Dogramaci, Deirdre Fernand, Fran Lloyd, David Low, John March, Sarah MacDougall, Anna Nyburg, Pauline Paucker, Ines Schlenker, Wilfried Weinke, and Julia Winckler.
Changing Visual and Material Culture
Yearbook Volume 19 continues an investigation which began with Arts in Exile in Britain 1933-45 (Volume 6, 2004). Twelve chapters, ten in English and two in German, address and analyse the significant contribution of émigrés across the applied arts, embracing mainstream practices such as photography, architecture, advertising, graphics, printing, textiles and illustration, alongside less well known fields of animation, typography and puppetry. New research adds to narratives surrounding familiar émigré names such as Oskar Kokoschka and Wolf Suschitzky, while revealing previously hidden contributions from lesser known practitioners. Overall, the volume provides a valuable addition to the understanding of the applied arts in Britain from the 1930s onwards, particularly highlighting difficulties faced by refugees attempting to continue fractured careers in a new homeland.
Contributors are: Rachel Dickson, Burcu Dogramaci, Deirdre Fernand, Fran Lloyd, David Low, John March, Sarah MacDougall, Anna Nyburg, Pauline Paucker, Ines Schlenker, Wilfried Weinke, and Julia Winckler.
Contributors are: Rachel Dickson, Burcu Dogramaci, Deirdre Fernand, Fran Lloyd, David Low, John March, Sarah MacDougall, Anna Nyburg, Pauline Paucker, Ines Schlenker, Wilfried Weinke, and Julia Winckler.
Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding photographs as prime sites of knowledge production and advocates of socio-political transformations, a transnational set of scholars reveals how images enact both our perception and conception of American environments. They investigate the power photography yields in shaping our ideas of self, nation, and empire, of private and public space, through urban, landscape, wasteland and portrait photography. The volume radically reconfigures how pictures alter the development of American places in the past, present, and future.
Photography and the Sense of Place
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Spatial Practices, Volume: 26
Picturing America: Photography and the Sense of Place argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making American places. Its collected essays epitomize not only how pictures situate us in a specific place, but also how they create a sense of such mutable place-worlds. Understanding photographs as prime sites of knowledge production and advocates of socio-political transformations, a transnational set of scholars reveals how images enact both our perception and conception of American environments. They investigate the power photography yields in shaping our ideas of self, nation, and empire, of private and public space, through urban, landscape, wasteland and portrait photography. The volume radically reconfigures how pictures alter the development of American places in the past, present, and future.
Dirigé par Roussel-Gillet et Evelyne Thoizet, La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique s’interroge sur les nouvelles fonctions de la miniature à la croisée des arts, de l’architecture, de la littérature, des sciences et des techniques, depuis le début des années 1960. Ludique, cognitive, didactique, la miniature permet d’abord d’approcher, de comprendre et de dominer la complexité du réel (maquette, modèle réduit, maison de poupée, diorama, aquarium, etc.) mais elle constitue aussi une œuvre d’art à part entière qui change notre rapport au monde et modifie notre regard. Contrairement au fragment et au détail, souvent étudiés, elle représente l’objet dans sa totalité en changeant d’échelle, et ouvre la connaissance et l’imagination à de nouveaux mondes.
Co-edited by Isabelle Roussel-Gillet and Evelyne Thoizet, La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique focuses on the new functions of the miniature at the crossroads of visual arts, architecture, literature, technology and sciences since the early 1960s. Playful, cognitive or didactic, the miniature (as model, dollhouse, aquarium, diorama…) allows us to approach, understand and perhaps dominate a complex reality. Many contemporary artists consider the miniature as a fully-fledged work of art which changes our relationships with the world and modifies our perception. Contrary to the often-studied detail, ornament or fragment, the miniature provides a complete vision of the depicted object in a different scale, and opens knowledge and imagination to new worlds.
Co-edited by Isabelle Roussel-Gillet and Evelyne Thoizet, La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique focuses on the new functions of the miniature at the crossroads of visual arts, architecture, literature, technology and sciences since the early 1960s. Playful, cognitive or didactic, the miniature (as model, dollhouse, aquarium, diorama…) allows us to approach, understand and perhaps dominate a complex reality. Many contemporary artists consider the miniature as a fully-fledged work of art which changes our relationships with the world and modifies our perception. Contrary to the often-studied detail, ornament or fragment, the miniature provides a complete vision of the depicted object in a different scale, and opens knowledge and imagination to new worlds.
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Chiasma, Volume: 43
Dirigé par Roussel-Gillet et Evelyne Thoizet, La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique s’interroge sur les nouvelles fonctions de la miniature à la croisée des arts, de l’architecture, de la littérature, des sciences et des techniques, depuis le début des années 1960. Ludique, cognitive, didactique, la miniature permet d’abord d’approcher, de comprendre et de dominer la complexité du réel (maquette, modèle réduit, maison de poupée, diorama, aquarium, etc.) mais elle constitue aussi une œuvre d’art à part entière qui change notre rapport au monde et modifie notre regard. Contrairement au fragment et au détail, souvent étudiés, elle représente l’objet dans sa totalité en changeant d’échelle, et ouvre la connaissance et l’imagination à de nouveaux mondes.
Co-edited by Isabelle Roussel-Gillet and Evelyne Thoizet, La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique focuses on the new functions of the miniature at the crossroads of visual arts, architecture, literature, technology and sciences since the early 1960s. Playful, cognitive or didactic, the miniature (as model, dollhouse, aquarium, diorama…) allows us to approach, understand and perhaps dominate a complex reality. Many contemporary artists consider the miniature as a fully-fledged work of art which changes our relationships with the world and modifies our perception. Contrary to the often-studied detail, ornament or fragment, the miniature provides a complete vision of the depicted object in a different scale, and opens knowledge and imagination to new worlds.
Co-edited by Isabelle Roussel-Gillet and Evelyne Thoizet, La miniature, dispositif artistique et modèle épistémologique focuses on the new functions of the miniature at the crossroads of visual arts, architecture, literature, technology and sciences since the early 1960s. Playful, cognitive or didactic, the miniature (as model, dollhouse, aquarium, diorama…) allows us to approach, understand and perhaps dominate a complex reality. Many contemporary artists consider the miniature as a fully-fledged work of art which changes our relationships with the world and modifies our perception. Contrary to the often-studied detail, ornament or fragment, the miniature provides a complete vision of the depicted object in a different scale, and opens knowledge and imagination to new worlds.
Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki and Kanai Mieko
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In The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature, Atsuko Sakaki closely examines photography-inspired texts by four Japanese novelists: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886-1965), Abe Kōbō (1924-93), Horie Toshiyuki (b. 1964) and Kanai Mieko (b. 1947). As connoisseurs, practitioners or critics of this visual medium, these authors look beyond photographs’ status as images that document and verify empirical incidents and existences, articulating instead the physical process of photographic production and photographs’ material presence in human lives. This book offers insight into the engagement with photography in Japanese literary texts as a means of bringing forgotten subject-object dynamics to light. It calls for a fundamental reconfiguration of the parameters of modern print culture and its presumption of the transparency of agents of representation.
Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki and Kanai Mieko
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In The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature, Atsuko Sakaki closely examines photography-inspired texts by four Japanese novelists: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886-1965), Abe Kōbō (1924-93), Horie Toshiyuki (b. 1964) and Kanai Mieko (b. 1947). As connoisseurs, practitioners or critics of this visual medium, these authors look beyond photographs’ status as images that document and verify empirical incidents and existences, articulating instead the physical process of photographic production and photographs’ material presence in human lives. This book offers insight into the engagement with photography in Japanese literary texts as a means of bringing forgotten subject-object dynamics to light. It calls for a fundamental reconfiguration of the parameters of modern print culture and its presumption of the transparency of agents of representation.
Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography
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Photography in Asia, Volume: 1
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A Career of Japan is the first study of one of the major photographers and personalities of nineteenth-century Japan. Baron Raimund von Stillfried was the most important foreign-born photographer of the Meiji era and one of the first globally active photographers of his generation. He played a key role in the international image of Japan and the adoption of photography within Japanese society itself. Yet, the lack of a thorough study of his activities, travels, and work has been a fundamental gap in both Japanese- and Western-language scholarship. Based on extensive new primary sources and unpublished documents from archives around the world, this book examines von Stillfried’s significance as a cultural mediator between Japan and Central Europe. It highlights the tensions and fierce competition that underpinned the globalising photographic industry at a site of cultural contact and exchange – treaty-port Yokohama. In the process, it raises key questions for Japanese visual culture, Habsburg studies, and cross-cultural histories of photography and globalisation.
A Career of Japan is the winner of the 2nd Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award for International Studies (Kreiner Award).
“Luke Gartlan’s book is a compelling and enjoyable read, and contributes major new perspectives to the growing field of Meiji photography. It will certainly be the authoritative work on Raimund von Stillfried, but it is also impressive for its contributions to other important areas of Meiji cultural studies, including representations of the emperor, photography of Hokkaido, and world’s fairs.” Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine)
A Career of Japan is the winner of the 2nd Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award for International Studies (Kreiner Award).
“Luke Gartlan’s book is a compelling and enjoyable read, and contributes major new perspectives to the growing field of Meiji photography. It will certainly be the authoritative work on Raimund von Stillfried, but it is also impressive for its contributions to other important areas of Meiji cultural studies, including representations of the emperor, photography of Hokkaido, and world’s fairs.” Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine)
Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography
Series:
Photography in Asia, Volume: 1
Author:
A Career of Japan is the first study of one of the major photographers and personalities of nineteenth-century Japan. Baron Raimund von Stillfried was the most important foreign-born photographer of the Meiji era and one of the first globally active photographers of his generation. He played a key role in the international image of Japan and the adoption of photography within Japanese society itself. Yet, the lack of a thorough study of his activities, travels, and work has been a fundamental gap in both Japanese- and Western-language scholarship. Based on extensive new primary sources and unpublished documents from archives around the world, this book examines von Stillfried’s significance as a cultural mediator between Japan and Central Europe. It highlights the tensions and fierce competition that underpinned the globalising photographic industry at a site of cultural contact and exchange – treaty-port Yokohama. In the process, it raises key questions for Japanese visual culture, Habsburg studies, and cross-cultural histories of photography and globalisation.
A Career of Japan is the winner of the 2nd Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award for International Studies (Kreiner Award).
“Luke Gartlan’s book is a compelling and enjoyable read, and contributes major new perspectives to the growing field of Meiji photography. It will certainly be the authoritative work on Raimund von Stillfried, but it is also impressive for its contributions to other important areas of Meiji cultural studies, including representations of the emperor, photography of Hokkaido, and world’s fairs.” Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine)
A Career of Japan is the winner of the 2nd Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award for International Studies (Kreiner Award).
“Luke Gartlan’s book is a compelling and enjoyable read, and contributes major new perspectives to the growing field of Meiji photography. It will certainly be the authoritative work on Raimund von Stillfried, but it is also impressive for its contributions to other important areas of Meiji cultural studies, including representations of the emperor, photography of Hokkaido, and world’s fairs.” Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine)
Photography in Asia is a peer reviewed book series dedicated to original scholarship on the history of photography in Asia, ranging from the appearance of the first daguerrotypes in the 19th century to contemporary photography.