You Must Become Dreamy: Complicating Japanese-American Pictorialism and the Early Twentieth-Century Regional West

This essay contributes to the story of the Japanese immigrant pictorialists by examining the work and history of Kyo Koike, regional photographer and Seattle Camera Club member. I will demonstrate through this case study that historically, the notion of regionalism often embodied a transnational complexity that has gone unacknowledged. Within the details of Koike's photographic work, regionalism becomes a broad and encompassing cultural expression.