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Brush & shutter : early photography in China / edited by Jeffrey W. Cody and Frances Terpak.

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Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, c2011.

Photography -- China -- History -- Exhibitions.

Photography -- Social aspects -- China -- History -- Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010039244-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1114/2010039244-d.html

9781606060544 (hbk.) :

xi, 196 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 x 29 cm.

Introduction: Reading early photographs of China / Wu Hung -- The history of the camera obscura and early photography in China / Edwin K. Lai -- Through a foreign glass : the art and science of photography in late Qing China / Jeffrey W. Cody and Frances Terpak -- Inventing a "Chinese" portrait style in early photography : the case of Milton Miller / Wu Hung -- Chinese as subject : photographic genres in the nineteenth century / Sarah E. Fraser -- Beyond the frame : the camera in Republican Shanghai and wartime Chongqing / Wen-hsin Yeh.

Uncovered here is a captivating visual history of China during photography's first century. Chinese export painters learned and adapted the medium of photography by grafting the new technology onto traditional artistic conventions - employing both brush and shutter. The essays in this volume shed light on the birth of a medium.

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