East Asia Image Collection Lafayette College

The "Oleg Benesch Postcards of Militarism, Heritage, and Pageantry in Imperial Japan" collection is in production. So many instructive images and captions!

Excellent resource for researchers, teachers, students, and curious people, focused and gender and women in the history of Japanese photography

https://behindthecamerajapan.arts.ubc.ca/

"Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography."

Introduction 紹介／ホームページ | Behind the Camera Behind the Camera ​​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 modern Japan. It is a pedagogical tool for the growing global investment in diverse and expanded histories of photography a...

The East Asia Image Collection has just uploaded 414 postcards, with translations to English, of correspondence between Japanese citizens on the home-front and Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in the Pacific theater, dated mid-1945 through early 1946. Open access at: https://ldr.lafayette.edu/collections/0v838103c

Nice excerpt from Kuan Da-wei, 官大偉)'s 2019 book Zyaw pinttriqan nqu llingay Tapung (李崠山事件) with East Asia Image Collection illustration.

Taiwan in Time: The Atayal alliance’s last stand - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Yasukuni Shrine, the Yushukan Military Museum, and Japan’s Place in the World - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Our course readers are essay compilations designed to make it easier for teachers and students to use the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus archive.

Yushukan revisited. Visual studies and history tour de force!

Yasukuni Shrine, the Yushukan Military Museum, and Japan’s Place in the World - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Our course readers are essay compilations designed to make it easier for teachers and students to use the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus archive.

The Lafayette College's East Asia Image Collection featured in NHK News (Japanese Public Broadcasting).

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20231220/k10014293911000.html

Learn About the Mexican Muralism Movement History and documentaries about the movement and its three defining artists: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

http://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/668443

I've never seen this photograph of the 1874 Expedition to Taiwan. Thank you Michael Jacobson for the tip.

Posed group photograph of expedition staff and Indigenous people outside Collections records may contain language, reflecting past collecting practices and methods of analysis, that is no longer acceptable. The Peabody Museum is committed to addressing the problem of offensive and discriminatory language present in its database. Our museum staff are continually updating....

East Asia Image Collection postcards featured in the exhibition KANTEN 観展: The Limits of History, at apexart on Church St. in lower Manhattan. The exhibit examines Japan’s expansionism during the Asia Pacific war from an array of viewpoints. On May 3, Eimi Tagore-Erwin, Chinghsin Wu, Asato Ikeda and Paul Barclay held a panel on the visual culture of Japanese imperialism. Co-creator of the EAIC Eric Luhrs also in attendance.