Displaced smiles: Photography and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II
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Photographers working for the War Relocation Authority created thousands of photographs of the forced evacuation and incarceration of Japanese Americans between 1942 and 1945. Aware of how the media and the government were portraying them as criminals, Japanese Americans went out of their way to salvage whatever dignity was permitted by dressing in their finest clothes and putting the best face on a situation that was fundamentally humiliating and degrading and smiling for the camera, became a reflexive response.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2005
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Illustration "urgently required": The Picturesque Palestine project, 1878-83
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The book, Picturesque Palestine, Sinai and Egypt is a prime example of the 'visualization of the travel experience', in which scenic tourism replaces the opportunity to meet and converse with others as the primary appeal of travel. By featuring subjects that suggested that these regions were little changed since biblical times, and by focusing on attractive landscape features and picturesque ruins, the book interpreted the regions as survivals from ancient times and distanced viewers from the present reality.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 2005
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Holy land, holy people? Photography, Semitic wannabes, and Chautauqua's Palestine Park
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Late 19th-century Americans' fascination with the landscape of the Holy Land and their ambivalence toward its contemporary inhabitants are illustrated by a book of photographs entitled 'Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee' and the creation of a replica, Palestine Park, at the Chautauqua community of New York. The focus on landscape reflects a belief in the importance of experience as well as Americans' vision of themselves as a chosen people.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1992
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