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

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

Publication:

Description:

xi, 196 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 29 cm

Notes:
Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 Feb.-1 May 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, 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 -- Plates -- List of objects in the exhibition / Shi Chen.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9781606060544
1606060546

Subject:

China Zusammenstellung
Photography China History Exhibitions.
Photography Social aspects China History Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic Exhibitions.
Photographie Chine Histoire Expositions.
Photographie Aspect social Chine Histoire Expositions.
Photographie artistique Expositions.
Photography.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography Social aspects.
Fotografie
Photographie.
China.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Cody, Jeffrey W.
Terpak, Frances, 1948-
J. Paul Getty Museum.

Brush and shutter

Holdings:

Location: Library main 273533
Call No.: BIB 207176
Status: Available

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