Editor's Introduction
Articles
Distinctiveness versus Universality:
Reconsidering New Japanese PhotographyYoshiaki Kai
Notes on a Painting of a Painted PhotographAjay Sinha
The Good, the Bad, and the Not Beautiful:
In the Street and on the Ground in VietnamNina Hien
Early Twentieth-Century Art Photography in China:
Adopting, Domesticating, and Embracing the ForeignRichard K. Kent
The Charismatic Index:
Photographic Representations of Power and
Status in the Thai Social OrderClare Veal
Engaging with Tradition:
A Conversation with Michael CherneyStephanie H. Tung
Book Reviews
Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs: Towards a Transcultural History of Photography (Deepali Dewan)
Reviewed by Jennifer Chowdhry
Reinventing Tokyo:
Japan’s Largest City in the Artistic Imagination (Samuel C. Morse, ed.) Reviewed by William Johnston
Traces of Life: Seen Through Korean Eyes (Chang Jae Lee, ed.)
Reviewed by Jina E. Kim
Archeologists in Angkor:
Photographic Archives of the Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient Reviewed by Raymond Lum
The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and the Representation of the Real in Nineteenth Century Japan (Maki Fukuoka)
Reviewed by Ayelet Zohar
Photography and China (Claire Roberts)
Reviewed by Laura Wexler
Recent Publications of Note:
an Annotated List by Raymond Lum
Symposia:
Abstracts
Resources:
Archives, Databases & Other Information