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Imaging the Rural: Modernity and Agrarianism in Hiroshi Hamaya’s Snow Land Photographs
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Tunney, R, Imaging the Rural: Modernity and Agrarianism in Hiroshi Hamaya's Snow Land Photographs, New Voices, 7 pp. 1-20. ISSN 2205-3166 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Th is article analyses the Snow Land photographic series by Japanese
photographer Hiroshi Hamaya [1915–1999] in relation to issues of modernity,
nostalgia and discourses of agrarianism in 1940s and 1950s Japan. Hamaya
is one of Japan’s most celebrated and infl uential documentary photographers
at both a national and international level. His Snow Land series presents
an idyllic view of life in the small mountain villages of Japan’s Niigata
Prefecture, emphasising a sense of community and spiritual meaning that
Hamaya perceived to be lacking in modern society. In this sense, Snow Land
constituted a critique of modernity. Th rough engagement with theorists such
as Heidegger, Foucault and Barthes, as well as critical writings on agrarian
ideology, this article investigates the underlying assumptions that govern
Hamaya’s depiction of snow country, demonstrating that the series is shaped
by a modern worldview and is tied to ideological discourses of agrarianism.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Cultural studies |
Research Field: | Asian cultural studies |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture |
UTAS Author: | Tunney, R (Dr Ross Tunney) |
ID Code: | 104344 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2015-11-10 |
Last Modified: | 2016-08-26 |
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