History Of Photography In China

Author : Terry Bennett,Lindsey Stewart
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : China
ISBN : UCSD:31822036422087

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History of Photography in China 1842-1860 by Terry Bennett,Lindsey Stewart Pdf

This book is the first extensive survey of early Chinese photographers in any language. It is profusely illustrated with more than 400 photographs, many of which are published here for the first time, including a fine selection of Foochow landscapes from the studios of Lai Fong, China's leading photographer during this period, and Tung Hing. Early chapters introduce the historical milieu from which the earliest Chinese photographers emerged and illuminate the beginnings of photography in China and contemporary Chinese reactions to its introduction. Early Chinese commercial photography - both portrait and landscape - are also discussed with reference to similar genres in a more international context. Individual chapters are devoted to Chinese photographers in Peking, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Foochow, Amoy, Hankow, Tientsin and other ports, Macau and Formosa. These are followed by a series of appendices: writings on photography in China by John Thomson and Isaac Taylor Headland and an invaluable guide to the identification of photographs from the Afong Studio. It concludes with an extensive bibliography, general and regional chronologies, and a biographical index. Publisher's note.

Author : Jeffrey W. Cody,Frances Terpak
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606060544

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Brush & Shutter by Jeffrey W. Cody,Frances Terpak Pdf

Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 February-1 May 2011.

Author : Oliver Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781000182477

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Photography in China by Oliver Moore Pdf

Emphasizing the medium’s reception among several Chinese constituencies, this book explores photography’s impact within new discourses on science, as well as its effects in social life, visual modernity and the media during China’s transition from imperial to republican government. General knowledge and academic teaching of early modern Chinese visual culture stops short of fitting photography into the larger context of visual practices and theories. This study redraws the boundaries by making photography the central concern within changing priorities of visual representation and its functions during a period of major cultural and political change. No other study draws on such intimate familiarity with the early glamour of photography as science, commerce and communication in the various local conditions of China’s cities and towns. Joining a body of critical writing that examines photography’s histories outside the familiar confines of the West, this book looks beyond the tourist and imperialist gazes of photographer-adventurers from the Western powers and Japan. It defines instead the Chinese priorities of photographic vision that are abundantly evident in surviving photographs as well as in records as various as technical manuals and personal inscriptions. Local practices and local knowledge are the keys to explain the highly successful indigenization of a medium as globalizing as photography with reference to Chinese society’s own terms and practices. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art and visual culture, the history of photography and Asian art.

Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781780236308

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Zooming In by Wu Hung Pdf

From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travelers to doctored portraits of Chairman Mao and the avant-garde photographic performances of the post–Cultural Revolution era, photography in China has followed divergent paths. In this book, Wu Hung explores the multiple histories of photographic production in China, using them to tell a larger story about China’s shifting sociopolitical contexts and the different agendas, technologies, and aesthetics that have helped define its arts. At the center of the book is a large question: how has photography represented China and its people, its collective history and memory as well as the diversity of Chinese artists who have striven for creative expression? To address this question, the author offers an in-depth study of selected photographers, themes, and movements in Chinese photography from 1860 to the present, covering a wide range of genres, including portraiture, photojournalism, architectural and landscape photography, and conceptual photography. Beautifully illustrated, this book offers a multifaceted and in-depth analysis of an important photographic history.

Author : Terry Bennett,Lindsey Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 095630124X

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History of Photography in China by Terry Bennett,Lindsey Stewart Pdf

Author : Terry Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1393971358

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History of Photography in China by Terry Bennett Pdf

Author : Shengqing Wu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231549714

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Photo Poetics by Shengqing Wu Pdf

Chinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting, calligraphy, and poetry were cross-fertilizing and mutually enriching. What happened when the Chinese poetic tradition encountered photography, a transformative technology and presumably realistic medium that reshaped seeing and representing the world? Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras, examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the new visual culture. Drawing on extensive archival research into illustrated magazines, poetry collections, and vintage photographs, Photo Poetics analyzes a wide range of practices and genres, including self-representation in portrait photography; gifts of inscribed photographs; mass-media circulation of images of beautiful women; and photography of ghosts, immortals, and imagined landscapes. Wu argues that the Chinese lyrical tradition provided rich resources for artistic creativity, self-expression, and embodied experience in the face of an increasingly technological and image-oriented society. An interdisciplinary study spanning literary studies, visual culture, and media history, Photo Poetics is an original account of media culture in early twentieth-century China and the formation of Chinese literary and visual modernities.

Author : Terry Bennett,Anthony Payne,Lindsey Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : China
ISBN : 0956301215

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History of Photography in China by Terry Bennett,Anthony Payne,Lindsey Stewart Pdf

Author : Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher : Carl Mautz Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1887694188

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Photographers by Peter E. Palmquist Pdf

Author : Martin Parr
Publisher : Aperture Direct
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 168395159X

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The Chinese Photobook (Signed Edition) by Martin Parr Pdf

In the last decade there has been a major reappraisal of the role and status of the photobook within the history of photography. Newly revised histories of photography as recorded via the photobook have added enormously to our understanding of the medium's culture, particularly in places that are often marginalized, such as Latin America and Africa. However, until now, only a handful of Chinese books have made it onto historians' short lists. Yet China has a fascinating history of photobook publishing, and "The Chinese Photobook" will reveal for the first time the richness and diversity of this heritage. This volume is based on a collection compiled by Martin Parr and Beijing- and London-based Dutch photographer team WassinkLundgren. And while the collection was inspired initially by Parr's interest in propaganda books and in finding key works of socialist realist photography from the early days of the Communist Party and the Cultural Revolution era, the selection of books includes key volumes published as early as 1900, as well as contemporary volumes by emerging Chinese photographers. Each featured photobook offers a new perspective on the complicated history of China from the twentieth century onward. "The Chinese Photobook" embodies an unprecedented amount of research and scholarship in this area, and includes accompanying texts and individual title descriptions by Gu Zheng, Raymond Lum, Ruben Lundgren, Stephanie H. Tung and Gerry Badger.

Author : Luke Gartlan,Roberta Wue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Photography
ISBN : 147248438X

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Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan by Luke Gartlan,Roberta Wue Pdf

The essays in this book investigate the early history and culture of the photography studio in China and Japan with particular attention to the genre of the studio portrait, and the ability of those portraits to devise modern, gendered, nationalistic, and public identities for its subjects.

Author : Karina Corrigan,Stephanie H. Tung,Bing Wang (Museum cataloging assistant),Tingting Xu
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300263633

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Power and Perspective by Karina Corrigan,Stephanie H. Tung,Bing Wang (Museum cataloging assistant),Tingting Xu Pdf

Introduction / Stephanie H. Tung and Karina H. Corrigan -- China's nineteenth century : a snapshot / Mark Elliott -- The coolie, the corpse, and the crowd : Felice Beato and the ethics of war photography / Stephanie H. Tung -- The making and marketing of photography in nineteenth-century China / Stephanie H. Tung, Bing Wang, and Karina H. Corrigan -- Collecting China : PEM'S early patrons of Chinese photography / Karina H. Corrigan -- How do we know a faraway place? : China in early photography / Roberta Wue -- Photography and its worlds / Yi Gu.

Author : Claire Roberts
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781780232478

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Photography and China by Claire Roberts Pdf

With its lush and diverse landscapes, ancient ruins, and stunning architecture, China is a photographer’s dream. Exploring this visually rich and evocative country, Photography and China highlights Chinese photographers and subjects from the inception of photography to the present day. Drawing on works in museums, and archival and private collections across China, the United States, Europe, and Australia, Claire Roberts locates images from commercial, art, and documentary photography within the broader context of Chinese history. She focuses on the images as well as the studios and individuals who created them, describing the long tradition of Chinese artistic culture into which photography was first absorbed and subsequently expanded. As she recounts the stories of practitioners—from China and overseas—who were agents in that process of change, she also examines the commercial, political, and artistic purposes for which they used photography. Featuring one hundred striking, little-known images, Photography and China will make a significant contribution to photography, Chinese art, and twentieth-century history.

Author : Xiao Quan
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9788891821812

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In China When It All Began by Xiao Quan Pdf

The first international volume--and the very first English release--on Xiao Quan, one of the most acclaimed contemporary photographers in China. Xiao Quan shot to fame with his large-scale photo album Our Generation. The album, published in 1996 in China, features almost all of the famous figures in literature and fine art during the 1980s and 1990s, including Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, He Xuntian, Tan Dun, Bei Dao, Wang Anyi, Shi Tiesheng, Chen Cun, and Cui Jian, among others. In order to make this picture album, Xiao Quan traveled around China, and it took him nearly ten years to complete it. This book returns to that project to present it to a wider audience. This is a personal and fascinating documentation of China's late 1980s through the 1990s, capturing the drastic social change of the country's first decade of economic reform. Through an attentive selection of his most significant portraits of ordinary people around China and a group of emerging artists, this book aims at a comprehensive depiction of Xiao Quan's generation, giving a new perspective on Chinese cultural evolution and contemporary society.

Author : RONGRONG.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9493039420

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Chinese Photography by RONGRONG. Pdf

- An essential guide to Chinese photography and a must read for anyone who wants to learn about Chinese photography - A comprehensive review of photography in China since the beginning of the 20th century - Lavishly illustrated, including essays by ten leading scholars Photography is generally accepted as an invention dating back to 1839, and within five years, the medium had already been introduced into China. The development of Chinese photography has a long and varied history and this book examines it chronologically over the course of three chapters: 'Photography during the Republic of China and War Photography', 'Photography after the Founding of the People's Republic of China', and 'Chinese Contemporary Photography. From the unique body of work seen in Chinese pictorial photography to the country's war photography, and from revolutionary photography for the workers and soldiers to the diverse exploration of photography since 1976 and the experiments of the 1990s, the works included in this book present the essence of Chinese photography as never before, revealing the rich and varied creations of Chinese photographers and the evolution of their understanding of the medium. With valuable contributions from ten leading scholars, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn about the great diversity and absorbing history of Chinese photography.