Photography in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Photography in China write by Oliver Moore. This book was released on 2021-12-24. Photography in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Brush & Shutter
Brush & Shutter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brush & Shutter write by Jeffrey W. Cody. This book was released on 2011. Brush & Shutter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 February-1 May 2011.
Zooming In
Zooming In - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zooming In write by Wu Hung. This book was released on 2016-06-15. Zooming In available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
History of Photography in China
History of Photography in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Photography in China write by Terry Bennett. This book was released on 2013. History of Photography in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
History of Photography in China 1842-1860
History of Photography in China 1842-1860 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Photography in China 1842-1860 write by Terry Bennett. This book was released on 2009. History of Photography in China 1842-1860 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
