<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"><FONT BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">What a fascinating thread this has proved to be.<BR>
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Among the very many virtues of this List, I for one<BR>
- having missed out on formal training on Korea,<BR>
and being too preoccupied with the here and now -<BR>
especially appreciate such opportunities as this<BR>
to keep abreast of historical and cultural themes<BR>
that one would otherwise miss.<BR>
Many thanks to all who have contributed.<BR>
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Aidan FC<BR>
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AIDAN FOSTER-CARTER<BR>
Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=11 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">My recent musings on North Korea can be read at http://www.newnations.com/headlines/nk.php#up008 and on inter-Korean relations at http://www.csis.org/pacfor/cc/0404Qnk_sk.html<BR>
- the latter also picked up by Nautilus, at http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/0508A_FosterCarter.html <BR>
Most recently (as at 11 Feb.) I'm back in Asia Times Online after a longish silence, with two pieces: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GB11Dg05.html , www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GB12Dg01.html<BR>
The former, slightly revised, is also on PacNet t: http://www.csis.org/pacfor/pac0506A.pdf <BR>
- and also on Nautilus, at http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/0516A_Carter.html<BR>
PS Very latest (7 March) on Asia Times at http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/GC08Dg01.html</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><BR>
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Having followed this thread with what I trust is <BR>
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In a message dated 08/03/2005 16:01:11 GMT Standard Time, hyungpai@yahoo.co.jp writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:<B>Re: [KS] Question on colonial photography </B><BR>
Date:08/03/2005 16:01:11 GMT Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:hyungpai@yahoo.co.jp">hyungpai@yahoo.co.jp</A><BR>
To:<A HREF="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</A><BR>
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Dear Mr. Burgeson and members,<BR>
I have also seen such photos taken by Western commercial<BR>
photographers who resided in the foreign port cities in<BR>
Japan. They were taken in Bakumatsu period and they were<BR>
included in a catalogue from the Peabody Museum at Harvard<BR>
University in the mid 1980's.<BR>
I did go to see this exhibition when I was a student but<BR>
thought they were considered "artistic" photos but not<BR>
pornorgraphic. Young women are usually showed in various<BR>
states of undress either lounging around or in front of<BR>
the cosmetic mirror. I believe at this period it is <BR>
probably a fine-line between art and pornography. <BR>
But I agree with you there must have been a market for<BR>
these images because it is obvious they were carefully<BR>
staged and some are even colored at commercial photo<BR>
studios. The fact that the Peabody Museum at Salem and<BR>
Harvard own the collections now is indication that they<BR>
were acquired during part of the international<BR>
import/export trading network with the port of Boston port<BR>
and the Far East.<BR>
When I get back to the U.S. I will look at this<BR>
catalogue again but I do not believe there was anything in<BR>
the text by the authors about women's bodies and colonial<BR>
desire or gaze. I guess this exhibition happened before<BR>
the proliferation of cultural studies perspectives. <BR>
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--- "J.Scott Burgeson" <jsburgeson@yahoo.com> ?????<BR>
???:<BR>
> <BR>
> --- Pai hyungil <hyungpai@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:<BR>
> <BR>
> > In my recent research on photography in the early<BR>
> > colonial era, I have come across quite a few<BR>
> images<BR>
> of Korean women, such as haenyo (diving women) and<BR>
> country women with exposed breasts. <BR>
> > Was this part of the male photographers'<BR>
> fascination<BR>
> > with the exotic/erotic female? <BR>
> <BR>
> <BR>
> Apparently an underground photographic pornography<BR>
> market also existed in Korea since at least late<BR>
> Choson/late 19th century. Although I have not seen<BR>
> such images myself as they are extremeley rare,<BR>
> collectors describe intentionally sexualized images<BR>
> of<BR>
> topless Korean women (i.e., exposed breasts but not<BR>
> genitalia) posing seated in interior spaces<BR>
> alongside<BR>
> Korean men. It is probable that these images were<BR>
> taken by visiting Japanese photographers aiming for<BR>
> a<BR>
> Japanese or foreign market. Such images are clearly<BR>
> different from those everyday life portraits<BR>
> described<BR>
> above, and were no doubt meant for purposes of<BR>
> "erotic" arousal...<BR>
> --Scott Bug <BR>
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