Behind The Camera Japan

Behind the Camera is an open-source website that creates new critical directions on the history of photography, feminist art history, and the history of Japan

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Check out this beautifully designed book featuring work by Behind the Camera contributors

[Kelly McCormick マコーミック・ケリー @KellyMidoriMcCo]

Delighted to be included in this collection of thought provoking work edited by @louiserouse and Deanna MacDonald

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On the exhibition, Behind the Camera co-creator Carrie Cushman writes, “Not only do we see the world as the departed saw it—through their possessions, through their windows—but we wink to see the world anew just as they might have, a world close to death.”

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For those in Kyoto, don't miss Kyotographie's "A dialogue between Ishiuchi Miyako and Yuhki Touyama
Views through my window"
https://t.co/l4PBY4zrHb

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Huge thanks to Ritsumeikan ARC for supporting this project!

[立命館大学アート・リサーチセンター (Art Research Center) @RitsARC]

Interview release‼️
Read about the project 'Expanding the Study of Japanese Photography and Gender: Modules for Teaching and Public Access', supported by ARC-iJAC. The team is actively seeking contributors around the world for new modules! https://t.co/azTyNAMJG7
@KellyMidoriMcCo

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Thank you for the spotlight!

[NCC Japan (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @NCCJapanInfo]

This month’s #NCCSpotlight explores the intersections of history, photography, & #genderstudies in Japan with a look at the “Behind the Camera” project on Japanese Women Photographers by Carrie Cushman (@HASGalleries) & @KellyMidoriMcCo (@UBC_History)!📸🗾 https://t.co/bwowCHQvB4

[Kelly McCormick マコーミック・ケリー @KellyMidoriMcCo]

Go see this exciting exhibition of @komatsu_hiroko's work @hartfordart curated by the brilliant Carrie Cushman. Carrie and Komatsu improvised a way to process a 50-foot roll of photographic paper in horse troughs with help from students.

https://t.co/5m4TqjLx55

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Huge thanks also to the support of @UBC_History, the UBC Teaching and Learning Enchancement Fund, @UBC_PH, and @SSHRC_CRSH 8/8

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Announcing the launch of the first searchable, interactive, timeline of Japanese women photographers! Data visualization and information designer Steven Geofrey of @fluidencodings worked with us to turn a huge data set into a timeline 1/8

https://t.co/JgAAPcYVbw

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This project was made possible thru @fluidencodings's vision, the work of @mj_mustard creating data on the hist of photo and modern Japan, Carrie Cushman and @KellyMidoriMcCo's midnight data entries, and Kelly Chan @kafkaesquekelly and Bianca Chui's work on the data set @bmychui

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Rebecca Mendelson, Japanese Studies Librarian at @upennlib, is doing an amazing job building what is likely one of the strongest collections of work by Japanese women photographers in North America. Thanks to the shout out and bravo on such amazing work!
https://t.co/UXpuGwmzwX

[Kelly McCormick マコーミック・ケリー @KellyMidoriMcCo]

In my History Through Photographs course this week we focus on photography as a colonial tool. I am excited to use Christina Spiker's @Reaching4Random lecture video on late 19th c photos of Ainu communities made for Behind the Camera @BehindCameraJP 1/3

https://t.co/BMupDZRsAL

[Kelly McCormick マコーミック・ケリー @KellyMidoriMcCo]

Remembering Sasamoto Tsuneko (1914-2022) who recently passed at 107. #笹本恒子
https://t.co/CvqxwAnW5e (1/11)

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Correction: We are deeply embarrassed to have miss-written Nagashima Yurie's name and have corrected the error on the site to 長島 有里枝

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Announcing the launch of “Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography” an open-source website creating new critical directions on the history of photography, feminist art history, and the history of modern Japan https://t.co/3b6Nn6Jal4

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Stay tuned for an eye-opening interview with the feminist photographer and scholar Nagashima Yurie, exploring her photographic and written interventions into representations of women as photographers.

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Adding new lectures each year and would love to hear pitches for future content. For intros to the lectures and interactive timeline of Japanese women photographers *coming soon* follow us on Twitter @BehindCameraJP Instagram @BehindtheCameraJapan Facebook BehindtheCameraJapan

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Thanks to the hard work of scholars, curators, photographers, and numerous graduate research assistants, translators, web designers, and video editors. Thank you @ArtsISIT_UBC @ShayScholes @bmychui @kafkaesquekelly @saekosuzuki Haruki Sekiguchi and Motoko Jumonji and many more!