Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Corrigan, Karina
2. Tung, Stephanie H.
3. Wang, Bing (Museum cataloging assistant)
4. Xu, Tingting
5. Peabody Essex Museum, organizer, host institution

Description

1. 339 pages : illustrations (colour); 29 cm

Summary

1. "Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China seeks to rethink the global history of photography by recognizing the centrality of photography at the margins. Whereas histories of nineteenth century photography are often told through the story of a single, usually Euro-American, male hero photographer, the premise of Power and Perspective is that making a photograph is a social process. Each of the book's authors focuses on a different aspect of early photography in China, bringing together recent scholarship in the global history of photography and Chinese studies to reframe photography as a set of practices that emerged out of the colonial encounter and evolved to suit the needs of international trade, travel, and the desire to know an unfamiliar territory"--

Subject

1. Peabody Essex Museum -- Exhibitions.
2. Photography -- China -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
3. Photography -- Social aspects -- History -- China -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
4. East and West -- Exhibitions.
5. Photographers -- China -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
6. China -- Foreign public opinion -- Exhibitions.
7. Peabody Essex Museum.
8. East and West.
9. Photography.
10. Photography -- Social aspects.
11. Public opinion.
12. China.
13. 1800-1899

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.
2. History.

Contents

1. Introduction / Stephanie H. Tung and Karina H. Corrigan -- China's nineteenth century : a snapshot / Mark C. Elliott -- The coolie, the corpse, and the crowd : Felice Beato and the ethics of war photography / Stephanie H. Tung -- The making and marketing of photography in nineteenth-century China / Stephanie H. Tung, Bing Wang, and Karina H. Corrigan -- Collecting China : PEM'S early patrons of Chinese photography / Karina H. Corrigan -- How do we know a faraway place? : China in early photography / Roberta Wue -- Photography and its worlds / Yi Gu.

Call number

1. JQF 22-1572

Language

1. English

Note

1. "Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China accompanies the exhibition of the same name, organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, presented September 24, 2022-April 2, 2023."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. Corrigan, Karina, editor.
2. Tung, Stephanie H., editor.
3. Wang, Bing (Museum cataloging assistant), editor.
4. Xu, Tingting, editor.
5. Peabody Essex Museum, organizer, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2022009765

ISBN

1. 9780300263633 (hardcover)
2. 0300263635