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    REDISCOVERING FORGOTTEN THAI MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY

    Jul 01, 2018 2 minutes
    MARYBETH STOCK

    As a rule, histories of photography reference the Western canon: the iconographies of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen or Henri Cartier-Bresson are typically cited as fundamental orthodoxy. It was while teaching a course on photography, however, that Thai contemporary photographer Manit Sriwanichpoom questioned whether there might exist Thai resources to complement this conventional pedagogy.

    Photography was introduced to Siam in 1845, and its practice immediately

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