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Ouweleen, Philo (2016)

Through the photographic lens: the sublime ruins of Tōhoku. Japanese photographers visualizing disaster

Master thesis | Asian Studies (120 EC) (MA)
A study of the ways in which contemporary Japanese photographers visualized the Tōhoku disaster (the trifold disaster that destroyed the Tōhoku region in Japan in 2011). The concept of the sublime functions as a theoretical framework, explored in relation to moral and aesthetic dilemmas that occur when representing death, disaster and trauma.
Tōhoku disaster
Japanese photography
disaster photography
sublime
ethics
aesthetics
visualizing disaster
Author
Ouweleen, Philo
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Japanstudies
Supervisors
Machotka, Ewa
ECTS Credits
15
Language
en