Summaries of Scholarly Symposia 2.2

The Trans-Asia Photography Review is pleased to publish summaries and reviews of symposia, conferences, panels and workshops on topics related to photography in Asia. In addition to the symposia summarized here, abstracts from previous symposia can be found in the Symposium Archive. The TAP Symposium was held on October 14, 2011 at Hampshire College. The symposium, organized by Sandra Matthews, marked the first full year of publishing the Trans Asia Photography Review, and celebrated the launch of a special issue of the journal, guest edited by Ayelet Zohar and entitled “The Elu[va]sive Portrait: In Pursuit of Portrait Photography in East Asia and Beyond”. Symposium speakers included several members of the Trans-Asia Photography Review Editorial Board, as well as individuals who had contributed to the TAP Review in other ways. Camouflage, Photography and [In]visibility: Yamashiro Chikako’s Choros of the Melodies series (2010) Picturing “Picturing” — Reflexive Photography by Nobuyoshi Araki Fifty Years of Shōwa : The Art of Kageyama Kōyō Contemporary Trends in Popular Photography in Indonesia Early Japanese Colonial Photography of the Ogasawara Islands The Specters of Militarized Modernity: Photography in South Korea Disturbing the Peace: Ai Weiwei and the Documentary Mode “Reflections on Dayanita Singh’s ‘House of Love’” “Come Up and See Me Sometime: Why Photographs Should be Institutionalized” Lives and Deaths of a Colonial Vietnamese Hero-Villain: Ba Biểu in the Postcards of Pierre Dieulefils and Related Texts, ca. 1909–2007 Liu Zheng’s “The Chinese”