Outputs (8)

Photographic Ecologies (2017)
Journal Article
Schaefer, W. (2017). Photographic Ecologies. October, 161, 42-68. https://doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00303

In his body of photographs, Samalada (2008), the Chinese artist Adou uses extremely expired film; the resulting artifacts—marks of the animal, vegetable, and mineral matter composing film surfaces—are as visible a part of the photographs as their dep... Read More about Photographic Ecologies.

Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925-1937 (2017)
Book
Schaefer, W. (2017). Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925-1937. Duke University Press

During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of China's new media culture. Described by the modernist writer Mu Shiying as "transplanted from Europe" and “paved with shadows,” for many of its residents Shanghai was a city without a pas... Read More about Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925-1937.

Review of The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present, compiled by Martin Parr and WassinkLundgren; texts by Gu Zheng, Raymond Lum, Ruben Lundgren, Stephanie H. Tung, and Gerry Badger. New York: Aperture, 2015 (2016)
Journal Article
Schaefer, W. (2016). Review of The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present, compiled by Martin Parr and WassinkLundgren; texts by Gu Zheng, Raymond Lum, Ruben Lundgren, Stephanie H. Tung, and Gerry Badger. New York: Aperture, 2015. Trans Asia Photography, 6(2),

The Lives of Form: From Zhang Jin to Aaron Siskind (2016)
Journal Article
Schaefer, W. (2016). The Lives of Form: From Zhang Jin to Aaron Siskind. ASAP/journal, 1(3), 461-486. https://doi.org/10.1353/asa.2016.0041

Poor and Blank: History's Marks and the Photographies of Displacement (2010)
Journal Article
Schaefer, W. (2010). Poor and Blank: History's Marks and the Photographies of Displacement. Representations, 109(1), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2010.109.1.1

Shadow Photographs, Ruins, and Shanghai's Projected Past (2007)
Journal Article
Schaefer, W. (2007). Shadow Photographs, Ruins, and Shanghai's Projected Past. PMLA, 122(1), 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2007.122.1.124

Shanghai Savage (2003)
Journal Article
Schaefer, W. (2003). Shanghai Savage. positions: asia critique, 11(1), 91-133. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-11-1-91

Review of Wu Hung, Exhibiting Experimental Art in China (2002)
Journal Article
Schaefer, W. (2002). Review of Wu Hung, Exhibiting Experimental Art in China. The Journal of Asian Studies, 61(1), 234-237