An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin by Imada Adria L.;

Author:Imada, Adria L.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of California Press

FIGURE 60. Edward Kato with his camera on European tour, ca. 1972. Page 26-1, Edward Kato Album 14. Edward Kato Papers, KALA 17804. Courtesy of Kalaupapa National Historical Park.

The twenty albums in Kato’s extensive collection are centered mostly on male friends and travel. Throughout the albums, Kato serves as a folksy tour guide, adopting the jocular rhetoric and presentation of a slide show narrator. Kato’s earliest album begins with his segregation in Kalihi Hospital, where he was detained as a leprosy suspect in 1936. Homosocial bonding is figured in this album through an image of Kato draping his arm around a younger Hawaiian boy. Kato captioned this photograph “Pete and Me, 1936” (figure 61). As the albums continue through the 1990s, they are populated with bachelors, patients, and non-patients alike who pursue homosocial hobbies like sports and fishing.

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