Photography and China

Claire Roberts

• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781861899118
• eBook ISBN: 9781780232478
• Topic: Arte
• Subtopic: Fotografía

With its lush and diverse landscapes, ancient ruins, and stunning architecture, China is a photographer's dream. Exploring this visually rich and evocative country, Photography and China highlights Chinese photographers and subjects from the inception of photography to the present day.

Drawing on works in museums, and archival and private collections across China, the United States, Europe, and Australia, Claire Roberts locates images from commercial, art, and documentary photography within the broader context of Chinese history. She focuses on the images as well as the studios and individuals who created them, describing the long tradition of Chinese artistic culture into which photography was first absorbed and subsequently expanded. As she recounts the stories of practitioners—from China and overseas—who were agents in that process of change, she also examines the commercial, political, and artistic purposes for which they used photography. Featuring one hundred striking, little-known images, Photography and China will make a significant contribution to photography, Chinese art, and twentieth-century history.

Index

223 (Lin Zhipeng) 178

A Day in the Life of China project 144–5

Afong Studio, Hong Kong 24–7, 42–4

Albay after Typhoon 26, 42, 43

The Bankers’ Glen, Yuen-Foo River 27, 43, 44

‘Rose Hill’, Delano Family property 13, 26–7

Ai Weiwei 160, 169–70

Aisin Gioro Puyi 49, 68–9, 99

amateur societies, formation of 45–7, 80–82

An Ge (Peng Zhenge) 136–7, 149

Beauty Contest 105, 137

Three Men Squatting 104, 136

Antonioni, Michelangelo 119–20

April 12 Incident (Shanghai massacre) 73

April Photography Society 129–35, 137

Beato, Felice A. 17–20

Hong Kong harbour panorama 17–18

North [Dagu] Fort 6, 18, 19

Prince Gong 7, 18–19, 20, 41

Bi Jianfeng 150

big-character posters (dazibao) 119, 145

Birdhead collective 178

The Black Book 117, 160–62

Black and White Society 84–7, 93, 95

Boxer Rebellion 32, 33, 34–5, 50–52

Burri, René 111, 144

Butterfly Hu (Hu Di, Hu Ruihua) 53, 72–3

Cai Shangxiong, Repairing the Coal Chimney 80, 104–7

camera, ‘inventor’ of first Chinese 15

Cao Fei, Cosplayers series (‘A Mirage’) 129, 174–6

Capa, Robert 95, 144

Cartier-Bresson, Henri 102–4, 144, 152

Cathay Art Union, tomb figures 37, 54

Central Academy of Fine Arts Student Photography Group 150

Chang Tsai 100

Chang Yee Lau Studio, Fuzhou, Kidnapped Children 30, 47–8

Chen Chuanli...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• one China Exposed
• two The True Record
• three China Modern
• four War and Propaganda
• five Reportage and New Wave
• six U-Turn
• seven Performing into the Present
• Glossary of Chinese Names and Terms
• References
• Select Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Photo Acknowledgements
• Index