Good American subjects done through Japanese eyes: Race, nationality, and the Seattle Camera Club, 1924-1929

Pacific Northwest Quarterly

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-34

  Lee, Shelley Sang Hee ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (33)

1. Notan: Bulletin of the Seattle Camera Club, July 8, 1927.
2. Robert D. Monroe, "Light and Shade: Pictorial Photography in Seattle, 1920-1940, and the Seattle Camera Club," in Turning Shadows into Light: Art and Culture of the Northwest's Early Asian/ Pacific Community, ed. Mayumi Tsutakawa and Alan Chong Lau (Seattle, 1982),
3. David F. Martin, "Painted with Light: Photographs by the Seattle Camera Club," American Art Review, Vol. 12 (February 2000).
4. Joel Eisinger, Trace and Transformation: American Criticism of Photography in the Modern Period (Albuquerque, N. Mex, 1995), 25.
5. Kyo Koike, "The Seattle Camera Club," Photo-Era Magazine, Vol. 55 (October 1925), 182;
6. Club Notes, Camera Craft, Vol. 33 (August 1926), 350.
7. Kyo Koike, "Mount Rainier," Camera Craft, Vol. 33 (August 1926).
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9. Christian A. Peterson, After the Photo-Secession: American Pictorial Photography, 1910-1955 (Minneapolis, Minn., 1997), 55.
10. S. Frank Miyamoto, Social Solidarity among the Japanese in Seattle: With a New Introduction (Seattle, 1981).
11. Kyo Koike, "Why I Am a Pictorial Photographer," Photo-Era Magazine, Vol. 61 (September 1928), 123.
12. Chicago Evening Post Magazine of the Art World quoted in Notan, June 11, 1926.
13. Arthur Wesley Dow in Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers, 13th ed. (Berkeley, 1997).
14. Koike, "Why I Am a Pictorial Photographer."
15. Frank V. Chambers quoted in Notan, May 14, 1926.
16. The Publisher's Corner, Photo-Era Magazine, Vol. 57 (October 1926), 228.
17. "Art Institute of Seattle," Seatle Town Crier, June 22, 1929, p. 6;
18. Seattle Star, June 6, 1929;
19. Kyo Koike, "Fifth Seattle International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography," Camera Craft, Vol. 36 (September 1929), 413.
20. Ann Douglas, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (New York, 1995), 360.
21. Nicholas Haz, "The Third International Salon of the Pictorial Photographers of America," Vol. 23 (July 1929), 341.
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23. Sigismund Blumann, "What Our Japanese Pictorialists Might Do," Notan, April 10, 1925.
24. F. C. Tilney, "American Work at the London Exhibitions," American Photography, Vol. 21 (December 1927), 666.
25. Carol Zabilski,"Dr. Kyo Koike, 1878-1947: Physician, Poet, Photographer," PNQ, Vol. 68 (1977), 75, 77.
26. Koike, "Seattle Camera Club," 188.
27. "Art Institute of Seattle," Town Crier, June 15, 1929, p. 8.
28. "To the Seattle Photographers."
29. "Dr. Koike to Exhibit in International Salon," Feb. 8, 1935, p. 1,
30. "Two Photographers Contribute Studies to Royal Gift Box," July 11, 1935, p. 1, in Great Northern Daily News (Seattle).
31. "Furuya Camera Club Sponsors Contest," Japanese-American Courier, May 4, 1930, p. 4.
32. Seattle Times, Dec. 9, 1941;
33. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dec. 29, 1941;