Searching for Japanese Women Photographers in the Archive
Schedule
Fri May 29 2026 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
652 Kingsway | Vancouver, BC
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You're invited to the next Source Cited lecture by Professor Kelly McCormick at Take Your Time Back!About this Event
What do you do when you are told that someone did not exist in the past but you are certain they must have? In this talk I introduce a historian's approach to critically engaging with the archive to find a way to tell stories thought to be impossible. Tracing "the woman photographer" in Japan from the 1930s to the 1970s I show how she was represented in the mass media, colluded with the Japanese government during World War Two, and worked to be recognized as a professional and protest systemic inequality in postwar Japan. In doing so I demonstrate how critically reframing the archive provides new possibilities for telling new stories in the present.
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