Elena Tajima Creef

Join Elena Tajima Creef for an exploration of vernacular photographs taken by World War II Japanese war brides, the women who married American servicemen and relocated to the US in the postwar decades. Creef asks how we can construct history for a group of immigrant women who have been largely invisible within Japanese and American histories. To do so, she builds a new archive of everyday snapshot photography that can be analyzed for subtle patterns that allude to the ways that war brides built lives for themselves in a foreign land.

Link to Video Lecture: “Looking for a History of Photography for WWII Japanese War Brides.”