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

  • Bennett, Terry
Date:
2010
  • Books

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Description

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eighty different photographers are discussed - from well-known professionals to little-known amateurs - with previously unpublished biographical information.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.

Publication/Creation

London : Quaritch, 2010.

Physical description

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

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Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392) and index of photographers.

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    History of Medicine
    CVF.251.AA8
    		Open shelves

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  • 9780956301215
  • 0956301215