Charles University in Prague / KREAS Project
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague/ Faculty of Film and Television
and European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology
would like to invite all those who are interested in Asian photography to participate in the conference Photography in Asia 1839-1939.
The conference will run online from September 30 to October 2, 2021, always from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Prague time. Just for listening, you can watch all lectures on youtube through our website. If you want to take part in discussions, please register at:
asiaphoto21gmail.com (no later than September 28).
For detailed information, see our website https://asiaphotoprague.com.
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Program
Thursday, 30 September 2021
13:45 Registration - Welcome - Introduction
14:00–14:50 Keynote speech I
Luke Gartlan
Trading Places: Business and the Materials of Meiji Photography
15:00–17:30 Panel I: Archetypes – Stereotypes – Genres – Variability – Identity
Chair: Burglind Jungmann
Bing Wang
Street Cries in China from British Photographers’ Lens: Inheritance and Evolution
Mirjam Dénes
Photography and the Changing ‘Image’ of Japan in the Early Illustrated Press
Mio Wakita
The Vision of Modern Visual Technologies and the Image of Femininity in Meiji Japan
Sebastian Dobson
Felice Beato and the Carte-de-visite Photograph in Japan, 1863-1868
Frank Feltens
Towards the Future: Between Photographs and Prints in Meiji Era Japan
Discussion
17:45–18:30 Keynote speech II
Filip Suchomel
…When writing a travelogue, I only record my general impressions, and most of all I buy photographs…. The Creation of the First Photographic Collections from Asia in 19th-Century Central Europe.
Friday, 1 October 2021
14:00–14:50 Keynote speech III
Burglind Jungmann
Chosŏn Entering the International Arena: Three Witnesses
15:00–17:00 Panel II: Photographic Collections–Curators, Collectors, Travellers and their Admirers
Chair: Filip Suchomel
Stefano Turina
“Da una fotografia”. Picturing Japan in the Official Account of the First Italian Diplomatic Mission to Japan and China (1875).
Rebeca Gómez Morilla
Ambiguous Encounters and Colonial Imaginations – A Swiss Diplomat between Japanese Imperialism, Korean Independence and Swiss Economic Interests
Helena Čapková
In the land where only the abstract qualities are permanent – Photographic Collection of Bedřich Feuerstein
Michèle Galdemar
The Noblot Collection, French Indochina 1927–1937. A Private Contribution to Colonial Iconography
Discussion
17:15–18:45 Panel III: Uniqueness – Visuality – Transformation
Chair: Luke Gartlan
Ayelet Zohar
Hazy Moon, Eclipsed Sun: Between Art and Science. The Aesthetics of Astronomical Photography and Celestial Painting in Meiji Japan
Giulia Pra Floriani
Crafting China through Photographs. Francis E. Stafford’s Vision of the Commercial Press and the 1911 Revolution
Yupin Chung
Stillness and Time: “Shanghai of Today”
Discussion
Saturday, 2 October 2021
14:00–14:45 Keynote Speech IV
Terry Bennett
Photography and the Taiping Rebellion
15:00–17:30 Panel IV: New Views - Unknown vs. Famous in Asian Photography
Chair: Terry Bennett
Oliver Moore
The Photographic Image in China: More than One Life, More than One History
Freya Schwachenwald
Ornamental Streets and Ambivalent Subjects: Historiographical Reflections on Photographs and Artworks between East Asian and European Archives
Celio Barreto
The Syasin Makie of Mizuno Hanbeh: Unique Reproductions or Something Else?
Ekaterina B. Tolmacheva and Polina Rud
...Sometimes I get tired, but I think the cause of tiredness is my years — my 55 years are already over – The Far East Through the Eyes of Agnia Diness
Xavier Ortells-Nicolau
Traveling Photographic Collections: The Case of Juan Mencarini
Discussion
17:30–18:00 Closing Remarks
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Photography in Asia 1839-1939 (online, 30 Sep-2 Oct 21). In: ArtHist.net, 21.09.2021. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/34864>.