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PUBLICATIONS
Visual Communications published three books that document the organization’s history and passion for media. These publications activated our collections and placed VC as a place where Asian American media can be found and preserved.
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In Movement: A Pictorial History of Asian America
In Movement: A Pictorial History of Asian America: This is the story of Asian peoples in the United States as chronicled in photographs from the nineteenth century to the present. It is a story of people in movement. The photographs reflect imagination and adventure, desperation and courage, minds and bodies moving, leaping and struggling to new possibilities and potentials. This book was envisioned as a part of that historical and historic process in which our people have been engaged since the years before immigrating. Asians in America have always had to create organizations and movements to protect our communities. We are heirs to that heritage and this collection should help bind us to that legacy of struggle, of movement, captured here is photographs
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Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts: Moving the Image
Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts: Moving the Image is the first volume to document the remarkable body of film, video, and radio produced by Asian and Pacific Americans from the 1960s to the 1990s. Fifty award-winning filmmakers, media artists and writers speak firsthand to issues of generation and gender, ethnicity and nationality, which shape their imagery and identities. Three introductory essays provide an overview to the subject: Stephen Gong, of the Pacific FIlm Archives in Berkeley, surveys the role of Asian American media organizations in New York, Los Angeles. Seattle, Boston, and San Francisco; Renee Tajima, Oscar-nominated filmmaker, charts twenty years of Asian American filmmaking, and Russell Leong, editor of UCLA's Amerasia Journal brings forth key issues on media culture and the Asian American experience.
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Little Tokyo: One Hundred Years in Pictures
Little Tokyo: One Hundred Years in Pictures: This book of photographs is a medley of images, a montage of experiences, and a mirror of Little Tokyo's past. But mostly, it is meant as a monument to the people—past and present—for whom Little Tokyo has been "home" for one hundred years.
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