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Maki Fukuoka - The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan - 9780804777902 - V9780804777902
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The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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Description for The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan Hardback. The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth century Japan uncovers the social and epistemological roles of the term shashin within the scientific community before the term came to mean photography. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 916. Weight in Grams: 476.

The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of "the real" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful examination of a network of local scholars—from physicians to farmers to bureaucrats—known as Shōhyaku-sha. In their archival materials, these scholars used the term shashin (which would, years later, come to signify "photography" in Japanese) in a wide variety of medical, botanical, and pictorial practices. These scholars pursued questions of the relationship between what they observed and what ... Read more

This book is an exploration of the process by which the Shōhyaku-sha shaped the concept of shashin. As such, it disrupts the dominant narratives of photography, art, and science in Japan, providing a prehistory of Japanese photography that requires the accepted history of the discipline to be rewritten.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804777902
SKU
V9780804777902
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99-50

About Maki Fukuoka
Maki Fukuoka is assistant professor of Japanese Humanities in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan.

Reviews for The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan
"The Premise of Fidelity analyzes a field that has barely been considered in Western-language materials before, but the text does not, on this account, restrict itself to an introductory treatment. Rather, it leads the reader at once into serious and important topics relating to truth and the ability of scholars to grasp, and then to represent, this. Its particularizing features ... Read more

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