In this seminar, we shall consider several  focal points in the development of photography in Japan: the use of the term shashin to describe the process and product of Photography, stemming from the history and discourse on the term from the non-photography context, and the implication of this term on perceiving photography in Japan; the presence of European and Americn photographers in Japan, who had crucial affect on the image of Japan in the West; "anti-photography", and "opaque photography" – expriments in 19^th and early 20^th c. Japan; Pictorial and Modernist Photography in the prewar era, visual theories in the context of local arts and traditions; Photography, War, occupation and settlement – the representation of Japan in war in

Asia and the Pacific Region by recruited and independent photographers; Hiroshima and Nagasaki – trauma and photographic memory; Performativity in pjtography – the 1950s and 60s; Are-Bure-Boke – the aesthetics of the 1960s-1970s; Morimura Yasuamsa and gender issues in Japanese photography/ the rise of female photographers in Japan;  Hiroshi Sugimoto and the rise of conceptual photography in Japan; The Return of the Repressed: The Asia-Pacific War Images in Contemporary Japanese Photography;

דרישות הקורס:

 

נוכחות בשיעורים, קריאת ספרות מחקר, הצגת רפרט בקורס, הגשת סמנריון מסכם.

מרכיבי הציון הסופי:

 

הצגת רפרט (30%), השתתפות בכיתה (20%), סמינר מסכם (50%).

נושאי השיעורים (נתון לשינויים):

 

נושאי השיעורים הספציפיים ורשימת הקריאה הנלווית לכל שיעור יוכתבו בהתאם למהלך הדיון בכיתה.