Imagining Japan: The Early Souvenir Postcard Industry in Yokohama - BA Languages Degree Taster
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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Imagining Japan: the early souvenir postcard industry in Yokohama
An engaging one-hour session with Dr Irene González-López explores Japanese stereotypes, Western postcards, Orientalism, Yokohama photography and image analysis following by a campus tour.
What stereotypes do you associate with traditional Japanese culture? How were these stereotypes spread through images consumed in the West? Are these images (and the ideas they convey) still relevant today? In this session you will learn about the development of the souvenir postcard industry in the port city of Yokohama in the late 19th century—a thriving business selling images of Japan to Western consumers and led by foreign photographers, such as Felice Beato. We will explore the concept of “Orientalism” to consider how stereotypical images of Japan were reproduced in these popular postcards and to what effect. The session will also include hands-on exercises on how to critically analyse images.
Contact name: Linda Halimi
Speakers- Dr Irene Gonzalez Lopez
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