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 March 30, 2012
| Time: | 3:30-5 p.m. |
| Description: | "Visualizing 'Local Color' and the Imperial Tourist Gaze" is a talk by Dr. Hyung Il Pai that traces the disciplinary origins, photographic conventions and cultural biases inherent in the creation, dissemination and curating of stock images of "native types and places."
Such stock photos date back to the turn of the century, when the first mass-produced ethnographic sketches/photographs, postcard views and tourist guides commissioned by the Colonial Government-General of Korea were included in archaeological reports, museum catalogs, newspapers, photo-albums, exposition postcards and textbooks. By the 1920s-1930s, the Japanese tourist industry and printing presses in Japan as well as Korea were distributing millions of travel manuals, brochures and picture postcards promoting Korea's ruins and its people as the most authentic and picturesque destination in the Japanese empire to a world audience. |
| Location: | Hogg Building (WCH), Meyerson Conference Room 4.118 |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | Nicole L Elmer | 512-232-1947 |
| Sponsor: | Center for East Asian Studies |
| Admission: | Free |
| Categories: | Everyone, Politics & International, Seminar |
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