Brush & shutter : early photography in China
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Brush & shutter : early photography in China
AUTHOR:
Cody, Jeffrey W.
Terpak, Frances, 1948-
ISBN:
9781606060544
PUBLICATION_INFO:
Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, 2011
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xi, 196 p. : ill. ; 28 x 29 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS:
Introduction: Reading early photographs of China / Wu Hung -- The history of the camera obscura and early photography in China / Edwin K. Lai -- Through a foreign glass : the art and science of photography in late Qing China / Jeffrey W. Cody and Frances Terpak -- Inventing a "Chinese" portrait style in early photography : the case of Milton Miller / Wu Hung -- Chinese as subject : photographic genres in the nineteenth century / Sarah E. Fraser -- Beyond the frame : the camera in Republican Shanghai and wartime Chongqing / Wen-hsin Yeh.
ABSTRACT:
Uncovered here is a captivating visual history of China during photography’s first century. Chinese export painters learned and adapted the medium of photography by grafting the new technology onto traditional artistic conventions - employing both brush and shutter. The essays in this volume shed light on the birth of a medium.
SUBJECT:
| Photography -- China -- History -- Exhibitions |
| Photography -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- Exhibitions |
| Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions |
BIBSUMMARY:
Uncovered here is a captivating visual history of China during photography’s first century. Chinese export painters learned and adapted the medium of photography by grafting the new technology onto traditional artistic conventions - employing both brush and shutter. The essays in this volume shed light on the birth of a medium.