Main entry:

Bennett, Terry.

Title & Author:

History of photography in China : Western photographers, 1861-1879 / Terry Bennett.

Publication:

London : Quaritch, 2010.

Description:

xii, 419 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392) and index of photographers.
Corrigenda: History of Photography in China 1842-1860 -- Chapter 1. Hong Kong Studios -- Chapter 2. Photography in Peking (Beijing) -- Chapter 3. Photography in the Treaty Ports: Shanghai, Foochow (Fuzhou) Hankow (Hankou), Ningpo (Ningbo), Amoy (Xiamen), Canton (Guangzhou), Tientsin (Tianjin) -- Chapter 4. Roving Photographers -- Chapter 5. The Ruins of the European Palaces in the Yuanmingyuan -- Chapter 6. Photographic Periodicals -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 1. Early Steroviews of China -- Appendix 2. Willian Saunders's Photograph Album -- Appendix 3. Thomas Child's Photographs of Peking (Beijing) -- Appendix 4. William Floyd's Photographs of Hong Kong, Macau, Canton (Guangzhou) and Peking (Beijing) Reviewed -- Appendix 5. John Thompson's Photographs of Hong Kong Reviewed -- Appendix 6. Lorenzo F. Fisher enters the Imperial Palace: 'Adventure in China' -- Appendix 7. Early Photography in Shanghai: The Memories of J.M. W. Farnham, 'Dry Plates in a Damp Climate' -- Appendix 8. Paul Champion and the Difficulties of Photography in the Far East -- Appendix 9. Photography in Eastern Asia: Baron Stillfried -- Appendix 10. Photography in China: Three Articles by D.K. Griffith -- Appendix 11. Extracts from the "Far East" -- Appendix 12. Elija Bridgman's Daguerrotype Camera -- Bibliiography -- Photographic Terms -- Chronology of Photography in China to 1879 -- Regional Photography in China: Chronology 1842-1879 -- Index of Photograpers in China, 1842-1860, & Western Photographers in China, 1861-1879.

Summary:

The second volume in our series on the history of photography in China, this is the most extensive general survey of Western photographers working in China in the 1860s and 1870s. more... Over eighty different photographers are discussed - from well-known professionals to little-known amateurs - with previously unpublished biographical information. The book also includes documentary appendices of the photographers' published works, a bibliography, chronologies and a biographical index.

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Index:

ISBN:

9780956301215
0956301215

Subject:

Photography China History 19th century.
Photographers China History 19th century.
Travel photography China History 19th century.
East and West History 19th century.
Photographie Chine Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographes Chine Histoire 19e siècle.
Photographie de voyage Chine Histoire 19e siècle.
East and West
Photographers
Photography
Social conditions
Travel photography
Photographie.
Reisephotographie.
Fotografi historia Kina 1800-talet.
China History 19th century Pictorial works.
China Social conditions 19th century Pictorial works.
Chine Histoire 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Chine Conditions sociales 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
China

Form/genre:

History
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Payne, Anthony.
Stewart, Lindsey.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271050
Call No.: BIB 203982
Status: Available