Title & Author:

Power and perspective : early photography in China / edited by Karina H. Corrigan and Stephanie H. Tung ; with Bing Wang and Tingting Xu.

Publication:

Salem, Massachusetts : Peabody Essex Museum, [2022]
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
©2022

Description:

339 pages: illustrations (color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
"Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China accompanies the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, presented September 24, 2022-April 2, 2023."--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Stephanie H. Tung and Karina H. Corrigan -- China's nineteenth century : a snapshot / Mark C. 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.
Winner of the 2024 Bei Shan Tang Catalogue Prize from the Association for Asian Studies; winner of the 2023 Photography Network Book Prize.

Summary:

"Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China seeks to rethink the global history of photography by recognizing the centrality of photography at the margins. Whereas histories of nineteenth century photography are often told through the story of a single, usually Euro-American, male hero photographer, the premise of Power and Perspective is that making a photograph is a social process. Each of the book's authors focuses on a different aspect of early photography in China, bringing together recent scholarship in the global history of photography and Chinese studies to reframe photography as a set of practices that emerged out of the colonial encounter and evolved to suit the needs of international trade, travel, and the desire to know an unfamiliar territory"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780300263633 (hardcover)
0300263635 (hardcover)

Subject:

Peabody Essex Museum Exhibitions.
Peabody Essex Museum
Photography China History 19th century Exhibitions.
Photography Social aspects China History 19th century Exhibitions.
East and West Exhibitions.
Photographers China History 19th century Exhibitions.
Photographie Chine Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Photographie Aspect social Chine Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
Photographes Chine Histoire 19e siècle Expositions.
PHOTOGRAPHY / History.
HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century.
Photographers
East and West
Photography
Photography Social aspects
Public opinion
China Foreign public opinion Exhibitions.
China

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Corrigan, Karina, editor.
Tung, Stephanie H., editor.
Wang, Bing (Museum cataloging assistant), editor.
Xu, Tingting, editor.
Peabody Essex Museum, organizer, host institution.

Early photography in China

Holdings:

Location: Library main 322653
Call No.: 322653
Copy: 1
Status: Available