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title: "Non-Western Concepts and Translation problems for Terminology in the field of Photography and Image Culture"
whom: MN
tags: Asia, Photography, Terminology, Japan, Korea, China, Routledge Companion
link:
license: CC BY-SA 4.0
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# "Non-Western Concepts and Translation problems for Terminology in the field of Photography and Image Culture"

Links:
1. https://youtu.be/_POnqQufXoo (our conversation on Youtube, as an unlisted video)
2. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OEsDeH71RnbQa-G15JuRIGzIxLA2FMpXmAr-5uw6a6w/edit?usp=sharing (our initial Google Doc)

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## Terms to be included:
> [this list will be growing]

digraph img {
    layout = circo;
    "Photography" -> "Terminology" -> "Colonialism";
    "Photography" -> "Use" ->"Private";
    "Use" -> "Documentary" -> "Street" ->"Snapshot"
    "Private" -> "Snapshot";
    "colonial" -> "Japan" -> "Korea"
    "Japan" -> "China";
}

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## Relation between the three countries, Colonialism and Terminology

digraph {
  rankdir="LR"
  // the normal ranking algorithm doesn't know what to
  // do with clusters with rank="same".
  // If you opt in to the 'new' ranking algorithm, it
  // works as expected.
  newrank="true"

  Photography -> Japan
  Photography -> China
  Japan -> Korea
  Japan -> Terminology ->  

  subgraph cluster_subs {
    label="Colonialism"
    rank="same"
    China
    Korea
  }
}

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digraph img {

    node[fontname="CutiveMono" fontsize="13"];
	rankdir=LR;
    "Photography" -> "Terminology";
    "Terminology" -> "Practice" [dir=none];
    "documentary" -> "The Practice" [dir=none];
    "vernacular" -> "Practice" [dir=none];
    
    subgraph cluster_1 {
    label="Terminology Change under Japanese Influence" labeljust="l" style="dashed" fontsize="15" fontname="CutiveMono" margin="20pt";
	node [style=filled];
        "Private" -> "snapshot" -> "vernacular";
        "Street" -> "snapshot" -> "documentary" [dir=none];
        "Japanese Influence" -> "Terms" [dir=none];
    }
    {rank=same; "Terms", "Practice", "image"};
}

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## Asian Photography Terms and their relations

digraph {
  rankdir="LR"

  // square brackets hold attributes
  A [ label="私摄影
(private Photography)" shape="circle" ]
  B [ label="快照
snapshot (in Chinese)" shape="circle" ]
  C [ label=" 보도 사진  報道寫眞 
(documentary Photography
in Korean)" shape="square" ]
  // edges have attributes too
  A -> B
  B -> C [ arrowhead="halfopen" ]
}

Others:
1. https://fionatan.nl/publication/terminology/ (Terminology book, by Fiona TAN)
2. Mujokan: 
(from: Rethinking Japan Vol 1.: Literature, Visual Arts & Linguistics By Adriana Boscaro, Franco Gatti, Massimo Raveri), p. 83:
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan#Later_Shōwa_(1931–1941)

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**Technical Link:**
A quick introduction to graphviz: https://www.worthe-it.co.za/blog/2017-09-19-quick-introduction-to-graphviz.html