Book Launch | Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan, 1950s–1980s _ ANU College of Asia & the Pacific

展期: 2025-05-28 ~ 2025-06-30
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Wayfaring: Photography in Taiwan,1950s -1980s explores four transformative decades of photography in Taiwan, tracing its evolution amid the island’s emergence from Japanese colonialism and integration into the Nationalist regime under martial law. Through a dozen richly illustrated essays and interviews, the book bridges the gap between recent vigorous Chinese-language scholarship on the subject and its limited representation in English. Taking its title from the concept of photography as a means of pathfinding, the book explores how, in the 1950s and 1960s, photography played a pivotal role in documenting local culture and everyday life, in the hands of both professionals and amateurs. In the 1970s and 1980s, photography was witness and agent of social transformation, engaging not only street protests but also issues such as environmental protection, mental health and gender politics, as well as being a vital conduit for cross-pollination in contemporary art, theatre, cinema and performance at the time.

Authors include Olivier Krischer, Chen Shuxia, Mia Yinxing Liu, Kevin Alexander Su, Anne Ma Kuo-An, Chen Chia-Chi, Lee Wei-I, Tseng Shao-Chien, Liu Chen-Hsiang, Yao Jui-Chung, Tsao Liang-Pin, Hsu Fang-Tze.