Shadow traces
type: CreativeWork
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Portrait photography--Social aspects
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  alternate name: Japanese American women
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  alternate name: Women, Ainu
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  alternate name: Photograph collections--Social aspects
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  alternate name: War brides
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126550
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126960
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320133109
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330137783
abstract: "Images of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Japanese immigrant picture brides of the early twentieth century; interned Nisei women in World War II camps; and Japanese war brides who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. Creef illustrates how an against-the-grain viewing of these images and other archival materials offers textual traces that invite us to reconsider the visual history of these women and other distinct historical groups. As she shows, using an archival collection's range as a lens and frame helps us discover new intersections between race, class, gender, history, and photography. Innovative and engaging, Shadow Traces illuminates how photographs shape the history of marginalized people and outlines a method for using such materials in interdisciplinary research."-- Provided by publisher.
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310224055
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Those "mysterious little Japanese primitives" -- Looking at Japanese picture brides -- Beauty behind barbed wire -- Filling in the blank spot in an incomplete war bride archive.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301331072

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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 331072