[KS] colonial photography replies

[Pai hyungil]

Dear colleagues and students,
I want to thank the overwhelming number of replies I have
received on my query about the prevalence of images
focussed on Korean women's exposed breasts. It is a relief
to know that it was not only the Japanese ethnographers
and travellers who noted this phenomena and that it
continued well into the Post-war period.
I myself just stumbled onto to these images working on
colonial era photographs of Korean remains and relics. I
was particurlary fascinated with how the so-called
"Chosenjin" (usually very poor dirty children, laborers or
old yangban men and sometimes monks in the case of
temples) were juxtaposed with decaying ruins imitating the
format of Victorian photographic conventions of framing
scenic monuments with natives lounging in the foreground.

Once I have digested the information, I hope to write to
your replies individually. I have so far only looked at
Meiji-Taisho journals on customs surveys and travelogues
here in Japan. 
If you have any student or yourself have written articles
or papers on this topic, I would appreciate if  you can
send them to my university address at UCSB. I will be
returning to California in early May.
Your sincerely, 
Hyung Il Pai

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