Intimacy Out of Doors

This chapter engages with a collection of photographs amassed by Chinese American teenager Frank Jue between 1915 and 1919 and assembled into an album sometime in the 1920s. It asks how vernacular practices of looking such as photographically mediated sightseeing help (re)produce the relations through which diasporic subjects constitute themselves as a community. The photographs in Jue’s album reimagine and reclaim space in ways that interrupt …