Brush & shutter : early photography in China / edited by Jeffrey W. Cody and Frances Terpak.

• 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, 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 -- Plates -- List of objects in the exhibition / Shi Chen.

• 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. 

Ämnesord

Photography  -- China -- History -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Photography  -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Photography, Artistic  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Photographie  -- Chine -- Histoire -- Expositions. (Vedettes-matière)

Photographie  -- Aspect social -- Chine -- Histoire -- Expositions. (Vedettes-matière)

Photographie artistique  -- Expositions. (Vedettes-matière)

Photography.  (fast)

Photography, Artistic.  (fast)

Fotografie  (gnd)

Photographie.  (idszbz)

Photography  -- Social aspects. (fast)

China.  (fast)

China.  (idszbz)

Genre

Exhibition catalogs.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Exhibition catalogs.  (lcgft)

Exhibition catalogues. 

Titel

China

Klassifikation

TR101 (LCC)

770.951 (DDC)

J409.2 (clc)

Inb (kssb/8 (machine generated))