Zooming in : histories of photography in China / Wu Hung.

Main entry:

Wu Hung, 1945- author.

Title & Author:

Zooming in : histories of photography in China / Wu Hung.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2016.
©2016

Description:

398 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-385) and index.
Inventing a "Chinese" portrait style in early photography : the case of Milton Miller -- Photography's subjugation of China : a "magnificent collection" of Second Opium War images -- Birth of the self and the nation : cutting the queue -- Self as art : Jin Shisheng and his interior space -- Searching for immortal mountains : the origins and aesthetics -- A Second history : an archive of manipulated photographs -- The "old photo craze" and contemporary Chinese art -- Mo Yi : the story of an urban ethnographer -- Liu Zheng : My countrymen -- Rong Rong : ruins as autobiography -- Miao Xiaochun : journeying through space and time.

Summary:

"From the ﬁrst sets of photographic records made by Western travellers to the emergence of 'Chinese photography' imbued with national anxiety and individual desire, and from doctored portraits of Chairman Mao to 'experimental' representations of urban transformation and avant-garde performances of the post-Cultural Revolution era, the development of photography in China has followed divergent paths through changing sociopolitical contexts, producing images with different agendas, technological innovations and artistic pursuits. Zooming In explores multiple histories of photographic production in China. At its centre lies a large question: how has photography represented China and its people, collective history and memory, individual subjectivity and creativity? To address this multifaceted question, Wu Hung offers an in-depth study of selected photographers, themes and movements of photography in China from 1860 to the present, covering a wide range of topics from portraiture to photojournalism, architectural and landscape photography, photo-publications and conceptual photography."--from the publisher

ISBN:

9781780235998
1780235992
9781780236308 (ebook)

Subject:

Photography China History.
Photography Social aspects China History.
Photographie Chine Histoire.
Photographie Aspect social Chine Histoire.
Photography
Photography Social aspects
China
1850-2006

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293360
Call No.: BIB 238204
Status: External loan

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