Pacific exposures photography and the Australia-Japan relationship / Melissa Miles and Robin Gerster.
| Author/creator | Miles, Melissa |
| Other author | Gerster, Robin, 1953- |
| Other author | Australian National University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Acton, A.C.T. : Australian National University Press, 2018. |
| Description | xiv, 251 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Asian studies series monograph ; 11 |
| Contents | The Child of the Worlds Old Age: Photographing Japan in the Early Twentieth Century -- White Australia in the Darkroom: 1915 1941 Shooting Japanese: Photographing the Pacific War Japan for the Taking: Images of the Occupation Through NonMilitary Eyes: Developing the Postwar Bilateral Relationship Cross-Cultural (Mis)understandings: Independent Photography since the 1980s -- Conclusion: Revising Us and Them. |
| Review | Photography has been a key means by which Australians have sought to define their relationships with Japan. From the fascination with all things Japanese in the late nineteenth century, through the era of White Australia, the bitter enmity of the Pacific War, the path to reconciliation in the post-war period and the culturally complicated bilateralism of today, Australians have used their cameras to express a divided sense of conflict and kinship with a country that has by turns fascinated and infuriated. The remarkable photographs collected and discussed here for the first time shed new light on the history of Australias engagement with its most important regional partner. Pacific Exposures argues that photographs tell an important story of cultural production, response and reaction not only about how Australians have pictured Japan over the decades, but how they see their own place in the Asia Pacific. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019394056 |
| ISBN | 9781760462543 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
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