Photography and China

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Covering the period from the inception of photography to the present day, this is the first comprehensive account of photography in China to be published in English, illuminating in detail this previously neglected subject. Bringing together material held in museums, archives and private collections all over the world, Photography and China explores the long tradition of Chinese art and visual culture into which photography was initially absorbed and which it went on to expand in new directions.Locating these images within their particular social and temporal contexts, Claire Roberts describes the varied purposes with which photographers in China created their work, which included the commercial, political, artistic and journalistic. The book places emphasis on the practitioners themselves and the images they created, which cover an astonishing array of subjects, from landscapes and rural scenes to propaganda and the documentation of social upheavals, and from the earliest self-portraiture to radical contemporary art practices.This rich and evocative volume gathers over 130 images, many unfamiliar to a Western audience, to chronicle photography's relationship to this complex country, underlining the medium's status as both witness to and agent of historical change.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-08-01
Mått220 x 190 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieExposures
Antal sidor200
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781861899118

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Claire Roberts is a scholar and curator of Asian art. She is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Adelaide and has held fellowships at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. Formerly Senior Curator of Asian Arts and Design at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, she has curated exhibitions at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Queensland Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the Beijing World Art Museum at the China Millennium Monument. She has published widely on Chinese visual culture, including Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong (2010) and Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture (2012, as editor).

In 1907, Fuzhou-born Ye Jinglü had the first of his annual portraits taken, a practice he maintained until his death in 1968. The three photographs from this series illustrated in Photography and China capture the profound impact of social and political change in China over the years, and are among the many fascinating images in this impressive publication . . . Roberts has done a superb job distilling a complex medium that has been both witness to and agent of historical change. Anyone with an interest in photography and China, or the history of visual culture, will want to give this volume a permanent place on their bookshelf.