The Fall 2015 issue of the Trans Asia Photography Review, entitled Composite Realities: The Art of Photographic Manipulation in Asia, is now available online at tapreview.org. You may need to refresh your browser to see the new contents. This issue is guest edited by Claire Roberts and Yi Gu, two important scholars writing about the histories of photography in China.
Essays and Conversations:
CHEN Shuxia, Manipulation as Art: Photographs by Xu Zhuo, 1979–1981
GAO Chu and WANG Shuo, Photographic Manipulation in China: A Conversation between Fu Yu and Gao Chu
JIANG Jiehong, The ‘China Dream’ Reimagined: Contemporary Photography in China
Mia Linxing LIU, The “Emulative” Portraits: Lang Jingshan’s Photography of Zhang Daqian
LEE Wing Ki, Xi Jinping at the “Occupy” Sites: Derivative Works and Participatory Propaganda from Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement (2014)
Claire ROBERTS, translator, Excerpt from Coming to the Village to Take Photos, by Wang Yong
Reviews:
Red Flag Studio: Debates on Photography in China, Jin Yongquan; reviewed by Yi Gu
In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, Anne Nishimura Morse and Anne E. Havinga; reviewed by Tessa Hite
Raja Deen Dayal: Artist Photography in 19th Century India, Deepali Dewan and Deborah Hutton; reviewed by Ajay Sinha
In addition to essays and reviews, the TAP Review features a Resources Page – an annotated list of databases and archives, including abstracts of symposia – as well as an annotated list of Recent Publications of Note.
The Trans Asia Photography Review is an open access peer review journal, published by Hampshire College in collaboration with Michigan Publishing, with support from the Five College Consortium.
Sandra Matthews
Associate Professor of Film and Photography
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002, USA
Editor, Trans-Asia Photography Review
tapreview.org