A Photo Album's Redrawn Color Line
On Black Freedom in Japan, 1947–1949
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22006013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emilie Boone (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Trans Asia Photography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2025 • E-ISSN: 2158-2025 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/21582025-10924828 |
| OpenAlex | W4390901756 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
While art historians have highlighted the reputed freedoms afforded to African Americans—such as painters and sculptors—who traveled abroad to escape racism in the United States, little attention has been paid to vernacular photography or to places beyond a few storied locations. Made partly within the context of the American military base of Camp Gifu, an album by a woman named Darlene Littleton brings attention to the vernacular photographs of Black life in Japan under the US Occupation following World War II. The album serves as a creative practice in which Black visual production is propelled by a range of circumstances distinctly marked by alternate modes of freedom—moments loosened from the logic of race, gender, and class commonly known to the United States
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Color line · Literature · Painting · Photography · Racism · Sociology · Vernacular · Visual arts · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · History · Photography and Visual Culture · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |