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Karen Fraser, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, will give a public lecture on Japanese photography on Thursday, March 5, at 5pm in the Student Union Theater at San Jose State University. This lecture is part of the Kazuki Fukuda-Abe Endowed Lecture Series in Contemporary Japanese Arts at SJSU. Parking is available in the Seventh Street Garage. Daily parking permits can be purchases at kiosks on marked floors.

Abstract:

What is "Japanese" Photography?
Contemporary scholarship addressing the concepts of transnationalism and global modernism emphasizes the interplay between the global and the local in the creation of modern and contemporary artistic forms. How might these terms relate to the ubiquitous medium of photography, and how can we begin to define a notion such as "Japanese photography" within these contexts? This lecture will contemplate characteristics relevant to defining a distinctively "Japanese" approach to photography at three key moments in Japanese photographic history, represented via the work of 19th century commercial photographers Kusababe Kimbei and Ogawa Kazumasa, the early 20th century Pictionalist Fukuhara Shinzō, and postwar artist Tōmatsu Shōei.

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