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Mute

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Mute

By Exactly Foundation, Chia Aik Beng

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About the book

Can a photograph show what is absent, what has been erased? Through this illuminating series of images, we get to "see" Singapore's forgotten Little Japan, a once-flourishing enclave with a red-light district featuring "karayuki-san" - right where Bugis Junction stands today... Mute is a uniquely moving collection of photographs. Photographer Chua Aik Beng gives a highly personal take on Little Japan's forgotten history, prompting us to ask, "Why do we not know?" The book also documents the resp...Show more

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ISBN

9789814779685

Publisher

Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Mute

Format

Paperback

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