Photography In China

Author : Oliver Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : 51,8 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 : Jeffrey W. Cody,Frances Terpak
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Terry Bennett,Lindsey Stewart
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Terry Bennett,Lindsey Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 095630124X

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

Author : Shengqing Wu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Luke Gartlan,Roberta Wue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Petra Giloy-Hirtz,Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek
Publisher : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3777436569

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About Us by Petra Giloy-Hirtz,Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek Pdf

Grappling with sweeping social changes during the past thirty years of China's global rise, young artists have explored and crafted new identities through photography. While their works range across subjects--capturing bustling cityscapes and quiet landscapes, framing exuberant hopefulness and melancholic doubt--their experimentation speaks to a generational need for new aesthetic tools in an uncertain world. Featuring 150 photographs from the collections of Alexander Tutsek-Siftung, About Us offers a vibrant and in-depth survey of contemporary Chinese photography.

Author : Karina Corrigan,Stephanie H. Tung,Bing Wang (Museum cataloging assistant),Tingting Xu
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Terry Bennett,Anthony Payne,Lindsey Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Claire Roberts
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Amelia Boman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1674517092

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Beijing China by Amelia Boman Pdf

Enjoy the beautiful curated photographs (in color) of Beijing in China The photos captures the quintessential stunning landmarks, scenery and architectural buildings of the country and city from day to night without no words (texts) This full page picture book will make a great home coffee table decor accessory or as a gift for a loved one 8.5" x 11" / large size Glossy softcover

Author : Edward Burtynsky,Marc Daniel Mayer,Ted C. Fishman,Mark Kingwell
Publisher : Steidl / Edition7L
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3865211305

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China by Edward Burtynsky,Marc Daniel Mayer,Ted C. Fishman,Mark Kingwell Pdf

"In this book, Edward Burtynsky presents photographs of the remnant and newly established zones of Chinese industrialization - those places created while realizing the "glory" of wealth for a powerful civilization yearning to move forward and join the ranks of modern nations. Using diplomatic channels, Burtynsky has gained rare access to these sites, creating images that are at once arresting and unsettling. These photographs afford us privileged glimpses of the vast social and economic transformation currently underway in China." "Burtynsky casts a watchful eye over the extreme expressions of Chinese industry. His subjects include the Three Gorges Dam, at present the world's largest engineering project and Bao Steel, China's biggest steel producer. He explores the vanishing dinosaurs of old industrial complexes in the north eastern "rust belt" and shipyards at Qiligang, the single most concentrated area of shipbuilding in the country."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Terry Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1393971358

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History of Photography in China by Terry Bennett Pdf

Author : Nick Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114452704

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Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908 by Nick Pearce Pdf

This book provides an addition to the small but growing body of literature on the practices of photography in China. Using a collection of a surviving nineteenth century photographs of Beijing held in the collection of the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, the author explores both the cityscape as it was recorded by two Scottish photographers and the interplay of personality and professional identities within the Foreign Legation quarter during a thirty-five year period. Three people are central to the book: the professional photographer John Thomson, the amateur photographer and missionary doctor, John Dudgeon and Stephen Bushell, physician to the British Legation, pioneer historian of Chinese art and original owner of the collection of the photographs. They provide the context and practice and provenance for the photographs and offer insight into the life of the small contingent of Westerners who resided within the walls of China's capital. here for the first time, the former revealed as an important contributor to the development of photography in China, the latter a major influence on the formation and interpretation of a number of important collections of a Chinese art in Britain and America. This book will be of interest to historians of photography, art, architecture and China during the late nineteenth century. [This] erudite study... is of interest not only to art historians, but also to historians of China and of comparative colonialisms.