The Charismatic Index: Photographic Representations of Power and Status in the Thai Social Order

Veal, Clare

doi:10.1215/215820251_3-2-207

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“…It could be said that the "aura" (Benjamin 2008) of the original artwork is not necessarily diminished through the creation of a photographic copy, but rather is transferred to the photograph and even enhanced in the photograph. A number of authors have made similar observations regarding Walter Benjamin's notion of the aura and photography in Asian contexts, such as in photos of the Dalai Lama (Harris 2004) and the king of Thailand (Clark 2011;Veal 2013). 1 The period of time in which this painting was hanging in Manshu-in was roughly from the early 1980s to the early 2000s, corresponding to the final decades of the analog age.…”

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The Ghost Scrolls of Manshu‐in and Tokugen‐in A Shutter‐Stopping Tale of Visual Culture, Photo Curses, and Recontextualization

Tamura¹

2020

Visual Anthropology Review

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This is an analysis of how photo curses caused by photographing paintings of ghosts in Japan materialize in different contexts in both the analog and digital ages. Over a period of several decades, this has included unwanted photographic prints and negatives that must be ritually destroyed by fire in a Buddhist temple and blog posts that may be dangerous to view because they include photos of the paintings. But a painting formerly considered a dangerous cult image can also transform into an artistic masterpiece when recognized by the art world, becoming widely photographed and reproduced in books and other media.

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“…Benjamin’s notion of the aura in this situation can be equated to the ghost that was thought by many people to be actually attached to the artwork and capable of being distributed along with its curse via photographic reproductions (cf. Clark 2011; Harris 2004; Veal 2013).…”

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