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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