Opening the Chrysalis: Willard D. Straight's Sketches, Photographs, and Accounts of Korea's Interaction with the Outside World, 1904-5
NEW GLOBAL STUDIES, cilt.16, sa.3, ss.345-369, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 3
- Basım Tarihi: 2022
- Doi Numarası: 10.1515/ngs-2021-0055
- Dergi Adı: NEW GLOBAL STUDIES
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.345-369
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Willard D. Straight, Korea, global interaction, modernization, travel photography, imperialism, UNITED-STATES
- Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Willard D. Straight - architect, diplomat, photographer, publisher, sketcher, and writer - arrived in Korea in 1904 as a correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War, and became the US vice consul in Seoul in 1905. By utilizing a number of images from the Willard Dickerman Straight Papers of Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, and by referring to other relevant sources of/about Straight, this essay presents a textual analysis and comprehensive visual reading about the country which Straight observed in a very crucial transition period in global history. It provides a glimpse at the perspective of an early twentieth-century American diplomat, eyewitness, photographer, and writer on the cultural, industrial, and technological transformations that Korea experienced in the early 1900s as a consequence of its interaction with major world powers.