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A critical reconsideration of the history of photography that
explores how commerce and conflict fueled its practice in
nineteenth-century China Photography's development as a new form of
art and technology coincided with profound changes in the way China
engaged with the world in the nineteenth century. The medium
evolved in response to war, trade, travel, and a desire for
knowledge about an unfamiliar place. Power and Perspective provides
a rich account of the exchanges among photographers, artists,
patrons, and subjects in the treaty port cities that connected
China and the West. Drawing primarily from the Peabody Essex
Museum's historic and largely unpublished collection of
photographs, this generously illustrated volume examines the
confrontations and collaborations that shaped the adoption and
practice of photography in China. Offering an original reassessment
of the colonial legacy of the medium, Power and Perspective
addresses photography's representations of racial hierarchy and its
entanglement with histories of European imperialism in
nineteenth-century China. Distributed for the Peabody Essex Museum
Exhibition Schedule: Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (September 24,
2022-April 2, 2023)
Newly revised histories of photography as recorded via the
photobook have added enormously to our understanding of the
medium's culture, particularly in places that are often
marginalized, such as Latin America and Africa. However, until now,
only a handful of Chinese books have made it onto historians' short
lists. Yet China has a fascinating history of photobook publishing,
and The Chinese Photobook reveals for the first time the richness
and diversity of this heritage. This now available in a smaller
size, more accessibly priced hardcover edition, volume is based on
a collection compiled by Martin Parr and Beijing- and London-based
Dutch photographer team WassinkLundgren. And while the collection
was inspired initially by Parr's interest in propaganda books and
in finding key works of socialist realist photography from the
early days of the Communist Party and the Cultural Revolution era,
the selection of books includes key volumes published as early as
1900, as well as contemporary volumes by emerging Chinese
photographers.
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