"Here ... I have really lived."Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell arrived in Northern Thailand in 1912, the young wife of a recently ordained Presbyterian missionary. Thousands of miles lay between her and her grandparents' farm in Nova Scotia, where she had been born and raised. But ove…
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Collection of essays on the history of photography in Southeast Asia and East Asia that emphasize the ethnographic uses of the medium.
Collection of essays on the history of photography in Southeast Asia and East Asia that emphasize the ethnographic uses of the medium.
"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…
Since the 1970s, the South African artist William Kentridge has charted the turbulent terrain of his homeland in both personal and political terms. With erudition, absurdist humor, and an underlying hope in humankind, Kentridge's artwork has examined apartheid, humanitarian atro…