Jenny’s Worlds: Asian Lives and the Archives of American Empire, Nadine Attewell

In November 1969, American serviceman Jerry Harlowe spent seven days on rest and recreation leave in Hong Kong, where he took numerous photographs of a “Hong Kong prostitute” named “Jenny.” While Harlowe’s archive bears witness to the possibilities of US empire for masculine pleasure, his photographs of Jenny show a self-assured young woman with style to burn. They also testify to the political…