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    About Celio
    January 31, 2024 · Photohistory,Collections,Photographic History,Historic Processes
    I study the artistic, commercial, cultural, historical, scientific, socio-political,...
    Photograph Truths-Imposed Narratives
    December 5, 2023 · Photographic History,History of Photography
      This past month the European Society for the History of Photography (ESHPh), based in Vienna,...
    Speaking Engagements
    September 28, 2023
    ROM Colloquium, Toronto, Canada, 2017 U of T Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada, 2017 Tel Aviv...
    Photo Workshop 2022:Photography as Knowledge (Re-) Production in Twentieth Century East Asia
    May 26, 2022 · Russo-Japanese War,Yokohama,Margaret MacLean,Japanese Red Cross,Canadian connections
    Margaret's Letter, A Digital Media Shared ExperienceVideo, 7:30 minutes, 2022, Celio H. Barreto,...
    International Symposium Photography in Asia 1839-1939
    September 18, 2021 · Mizunotype,Photomicrography,Photographic History,Conference,Yokohama Shashin
    ASIA PHOTO 2021 Prague How is Asian photographic documentation and reproduction currently...
    Stereoscopic and Interactive Media: Online Edition
    June 1, 2021 · Russo-Japanese War,Collections,Conference,Stereograph,Video
    Collectors Choices Every collector has his favourite item. S&I Media 2021 is looking for...
    The Journey Around the World Through Images: From the 19th Century to the Contemporary Age
    November 1, 2020 · Russo-Japanese War,Conference,Visual Culture,Meiji Period,Yellow Peril
    CO-ORGANISER & PANEL CHAIR Aurore YAMAGATA-MONTOYA – MIRA President & Independent researcher,...
    #PHRC20 Annual Conference Camera Education: Photographic Histories of Visual Literacy, Schooling, and the Imagination
    July 1, 2020 · Russo-Japanese War,Conference,United Kingdom,Visual Culture,materiality
    Conference hashtag #PHRC20 Photography has been entangled with education processes for nearly...
    Barreto on Ross, 'Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan'
    October 6, 2019 · Photographic History,Japan,Review,Meiji Period, Taisho Period
    Author: Kerry Ross Reviewer: Celio H. Barreto Kerry Ross. Photography for Everyone: The Cultural...
    Photographic Historical Society of Canada
    March 1, 2019 · Yokohama Shashin,Japan,Meiji Period,Photographic History,Talk
    The recent explosion in interest in historical photography from Asia has revealed just how little...
    PODCAST Project: THE PHOTO HISTORIAN
    December 31, 2018 · Photo history,Podcast,Photo collections,Photography,Instagram
    Hello everyone, I have some exciting news for 2019. I have just created a new instagram account, ...
    The IAJS Thematic Conference 2018: The West in Japanese Imagination / Japan in Western Imagination: 150 Years to the Meiji Restoration.
    December 25, 2018 · Conference,Japanese Studies,Meiji Period,Visual Culture,Israel
    The Israeli Association for Japanese Studies’ Thematic Conference 2018 was hosted at Tel Aviv...
    A British Adventure in Photo History
    July 22, 2018 · Photohistory,United Kingdom,Conference,Mizunotype,Yokohama Shashin
    The Thames River on our final approach to Heathrow. A little over a month ago I embarked on a...
    About a (photo) Postcard (version 2.0)
    June 2, 2018 · Postcards,Ephemera,Daibutsu,Kamakura,Yokohama Shashin
    Materiality speaks! The physical characteristics of a postcard can tell us quite a lot about...
    Unfolding Margaret MacLean's Orihon-Format Scrapbook In The Royal Ontario Museum Collection: A Focus On Context, Preservation And Access.
    May 4, 2018 · Thesis,Margaret MacLean,Canadian connections,Orihon,Photographic Album
    My Film and Photographic Preservation and Collections Management Master of Arts thesis available...
    Painless Cataloging
    May 1, 2018 · Collections,Postcards,Cataloging,Metadata
    I believe that in order to unlock the full power of any collection, you first need to know what...
    Recently Published Books on 19th Century Photographic History of Japan.
    April 12, 2018 · Photohistory,Photographic History,Yokohama Shashin,Japan,19th Century
    Scholarship on 19th century Japanese photography keeps on growing with lots of new stories,...
    A Silver Mizunotype: Lessons Learnt
    March 23, 2018 · Mizunotype,Photohistory,Photomicrography
    WHAT I LEARNT ABOUT MIZUNO AND HIS PROCESS In spite of it being hailed as Japan’s greatest...
    A Silver Mizunotype: Identification
    March 17, 2018 · Photomicrography,Mizunotype,Photographic History,Yokohama Shashin,Japan
    IDENTIFICATION In spite of the difficulties of asserting image attribution, the photograph used...
    A Silver Mizunotype: Attribution
    March 10, 2018 · Photographic History,Yokohama Shashin,Mizunotype,Japan,Photohistory
    THE PROBLEM OF ATTRIBUTION Being somewhat familiar with Felice Beato, Baron Raimund Von...
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    PhotoResearcher no.40 "Photograph Truths-Impossing Narratives" Special Issue.

    PhotoResearcher no.40 "Photograph Truths-Impossing Narratives" Special Issue.

    $29.99
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    Soft-cover,
    118 pages, colour,
    8.5 inches by 11 inches.
    Published by the European Society for the History of Photography, Vienna.
    Printed in Austria, October 2023

    Editors: Ulla Fischer-Westhauser, Uwe Schögl

    Guest Editor: Celio H. Barreto Ramos

    Contents:
    Jürg Schneider
    Photographic Encounters.
    How Africans Saw Photography

    Carole Naggar
    Marc Garanger — Algerian Women 1960

    Aurore Yamagata-Montoya
    Sotsugyō Arubamu: The Development of Japanese Universities’ Graduation Albums

    Sarah L. Hart
    “Our Boy Willie” — Photographs of Child Labour, and Masculinity in Canadian Soldiers’ Photographs of the Korean War

    Emma Wilde
    “Dead birds” — Misogynistic Misappropriation of Police Photography in the Cases of Jack the Ripper and the Murders of Henry and Smallman
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