Pacific Exposures: Photography and the Australia-Japan Relationship : 9781760462543

Photography has been a key means by which Australians have sought to define their relationships with Japan. From the fascination with all things Japanese in the late nineteenth century, through the era of 'White Australia', the bitter enmity of the Pacific War, the path to reconciliation in the post-war period and the culturally complicated bilateralism of today, Australians have used their cameras to express a divided sense of conflict and kinship with a country that has by turns fascinated and infuriated. The remarkable photographs collected and discussed here for the first time shed new light on the history of Australia's engagement with its most important regional partner. Pacific Exposures argues that photographs tell an important story of cultural production, response and reaction-not only about how Australians have pictured Japan over the decades, but how they see their own place in the Asia-Pacific.

Author: Melissa Miles

Publisher: Anu Press

Publication Date: Dec 17, 2018

Number of Pages: 266 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1760462543

ISBN-13: 9781760462543