Print club photography in Japan: Framing social relationships
Abstract
The authors examine the popularity of a new form of photographic representation in Japan, namely Print Club, or Purikura. Print Club machines initially delivered a page of 16 postage‐stamp‐sized photographs of their patrons, but many other formats have become common. This paper describes the 1995 emergence and development of the technology, image content, decorative frames, picture uses and functions and the incorporation of Print Club into a broad range of personal, social and even business and artistic life in Japan. The authors review connections to patterns of popular culture, consumerism, gender bias, adolescent youth culture, and interpersonal communication alongside issues of individual identity and group membership. Some claim Print Club as a fad, but six years later, all indicators point to a lasting contribution to Japanese visual culture.
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Over the next decade, experiments using doctored pictures corroborated those findings; more than 50% of all subjects constructed false memories out of old personal photographs retouched to depict a scene that had never happened.
“Over the next decade, these findings were corroborated by experiments in which doctored pictures were used; more than 50% of all subjects constructed false memories out of old personal photographs that were carefully retouched to depict a scene that had never happened in that person's life.5”
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- Authors
- Chalfen, R., & Murui, M.
- Affiliations
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Temple University, Japan (JP)
- Venue
- Visual Sociology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2001-01
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 55-73
- ISSN
- 1067-1684 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1530744275
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 14.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Visual Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- General Electric
- Temple University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Photography and Visual Culture
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Museology › Photographic and Visual Arts
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Japanese History and Culture
- Keywords
- photographic self-representation, photographic technology, popular culture, consumerism, gender bias, youth culture, interpersonal communication, personal identity, group membership, Japanese visual culture
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