Kelly McCormick, University of California Los Angeles, has won the 2018 Chino Kaori Memorial Prize for her essay “The Cameraman in a Skirt: Tokiwa Toyoko, the Camera Boom, and the Nude Shooting Session.” This Japan Art History Forum prize recognizes outstanding graduate student scholarship in Japanese art history. The prize was established in 2003 in memory of the distinguished art historian Chino Kaori, and is awarded annually to the best research paper written in English on a Japanese art history topic. JASA awarded $1,000 to this year‘s winner (and will continue such support until 2020) and the University of Hawai‘i Press gives $250 in books from its catalog. The winner also receives a complimentary two-year membership to JAHF.
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