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Publications & Bibliography

A comprehensive bibliography documenting publications, exhibition catalogs, and scholarly works featuring Dr. Masumi Hayashi's photography from 1975 through 2025.

Compiled by Julianne Gavino and Taylor Hoffman

Coverage: 1975–2013 (75+ entries) | Updated 2025

This bibliography documents publications, exhibition catalogs, scholarly works, and media coverage of Dr. Masumi Hayashi's work. It reflects her significant impact on contemporary photography, particularly her pioneering documentation of Japanese American internment camps and environmental sites.

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Major Monographs

12+

Exhibition Catalogs

25+

Journal Articles

75+

Total Citations

Key Publications

Definitive Monograph

Masumi Hayashi: Panoramic Photo Collages 1976-2006

Barbara Tannenbaum. Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2006.

The definitive monograph on Hayashi's work, featuring comprehensive essay by Barbara Tannenbaum, complete chronology, exhibitions list, and bibliography compiled by Julianne Gavino.

Scholarly Analysis

Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration

Jasmine Alinder. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Scholarly analysis of photographic representations of Japanese American internment, featuring extensive discussion of Hayashi's work.

Doctoral Dissertation

Topographies of Race and Public Space: Asian American Artists in California, 1970 to present

Julianne P. Gavino. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2015.

Comprehensive scholarly analysis placing Hayashi's work in the broader context of Asian American art and public space.

Bibliography by Category

12+ Exhibition Catalogs & Museum Publications

Hayashi, Masumi. Sights Unseen: The Photographic Constructions of Masumi Hayashi: May 31–September 14, 2003. Los Angeles, CA: Japanese American National Museum, 2003.

Hayashi, Masumi, A. D. Coleman, George Mauersberger, et al. Masumi Hayashi, Meditations. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University, 2007. [Memorial exhibition catalog from four Cleveland venues]

Hayashi, Masumi, and Wendy Kendall-Hess. EPA Superfund Sites. Akron, OH: Akron Art Museum, 1992.

Sparks, Amy Bracken, and Masumi Hayashi. Cultural Connections: Explorations of Transcultural Identity. Cleveland, OH: SPACES Gallery, 1995.

Williams, Val. Warworks: Women, Photography and the Iconography of War. London, UK: Virago, 1994. [Featured Hayashi's internment camp series]

Cohen-Or, Beni, Beate Reifenscheid, Claudia Heitmann, and Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus (Koblenz). Cultural Identity?: Beni Cohen-Or, Masumi Hayashi, Hengameh Mahvi, Qi Yang. Koblenz, Germany: Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, 2002.

25+ Journal Articles & Essays

Goldberg, Vicki. "A Terrible Beauty," ARTnews, Vol. 90, No. 6 (Summer 1991): 106–113.

Coleman, A. D. "The East Comes West: Japanese Photography in the U.S. Today," Camera and Darkroom Photography, Vol. 14, No. 6 (June 1992): 18–27.

Hayashi, Masumi. "American Concentration Camps," See: A Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 1–2 (Winter 1995): 33–35 and 64.

Coleman, A. D. "Frames of Reference," Ag: The International Journal of Photographic Art & Practice, Vol. 62 (Winter 2011): 62–71.

15+ Magazine Features

1995

Dowie, Mark. "The Fourth Wave," Mother Jones Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 2 (March/April 1995): 34–36. [Featured Hayashi's EPA Superfund Sites series]

1997

DoubleTake Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Fall 1997): 98–99. [Lemon Creek Internment Camp panoramic photo collage]

1992

Solnit, Rebecca. "The West Revisited," Creative Camera, Vol. 319 (Dec 1992/Jan 1993). [Featured alongside Mark Klett, Linda Connor, Richard Misrach]

8+ Book Chapters & Anthologies

Lippard, Lucy R. "Undertones: Ten Cultural Landscapes," in Neumaier, D., ed., Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1995.

Coleman, A. D. "Shared Memory: Artists' Perspectives and Practices," in Leslie Umberger, ed., Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts. Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2011.

Solnit, Rebecca. As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2001.

Complete Bibliography

The complete bibliography compiled by Julianne Gavino and Taylor Hoffman contains 75+ entries spanning publications from 1975 through 2013, with ongoing updates for recent exhibitions and publications.

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