Of battle and beauty : Felice Beato's photographs of China / David Harris.

Main entry:

Harris, David, 1950-

Title & Author:

Of battle and beauty : Felice Beato's photographs of China / David Harris.

Publication:

Santa Barbara, CA : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999.

Description:

185 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index.
Foreword / Karen Sinsheimer -- Beyond Beato's Lens: Historical Background to the Events of 1860 / Lyman P. Van Slyke -- Imperial Ideology and Felice Beato's Photographs of the Second Opium War in China / David Harris -- Catalogue of the Album -- App. A. Supplemental Catalogue -- App. B. Facsimile of Hering's Subscription List.

Summary:

"The images in 'Of battle and beauty, Felice Beato's photographs of China', taken in 1860 during the Second Opium War when the photographer accompanied Anglo-French forces into China, are among the earliest known and the first taken during an actual military campaign."--Foreword.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0899511015
9780899511016
0899511007 (soft)
9780899511009 (soft)

Subject:

Beato, Felice, 1832-1909.
Beato, Felice, (1825?-1904)
Great Britain. Army History 19th century Pictorial works.
Grande-Bretagne. Army Histoire 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Great Britain. Army
War photography Great Britain.
Photographie de guerre Grande-Bretagne.
Photography
War photography
China History Foreign intervention, 1857-1861 Photography.
China History 19th century Pictorial works.
Chine Histoire 1857-1861 (Intervention étrangère) Photographie.
Chine Histoire 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
China
Great Britain
Chine 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
1860

Form/genre:

Documentary photography.
Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
History
Illustrated works

Added entries:

Beato, Felice, 1832-1909.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 210360
Call No.: TR140.B369 H3 1999
Status: Available

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