Sheying: Shades of China 1850 – 1900
Clark Worswick
TurnerPhoto CHINA
English
Hardcover
172 pages
235 x 280 mm
2008
ISBN 9788475068046
The Quing Dynasty, which spanned three centuries, from 1644 to 1911, was the last ruling dynasty of China. Before the collapse of the empire ended 2.000 years of Imperialism and ushered in a time of political and economic strife, artist and artisans turned out rich paintings, porcelain plates, vases and photographs, the last having arrived in the country in the 1840s.
This publication presents a key selection of photographers of the Southern Chinese coast taken by both Chinese and European photographers. It touches on the cultural exchange between the Chinese and those Western photographers who began to explore the country, like Milton M. Miller, William Saunders and John Thomson. Miller during a short period in the 1860s, set up a photo studio in Hong Kong and introduced portraiture in the formal Western style of the time to the Chinese upper-middle classes.
(source: https://www.lensculture.com/books/12245-sheying)
About the Artist
Clark Worswick is a photographic historian and a photography collector. He is presently Consulting Curator of Photography at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts. His books include The Last Empire: Photography in British India, 1865-1911; Imperial China: Photographs, 1850-1912; Japan: Photographs, 1854-1905, Princely India, and An Edwardian Observer. For over three decades he has been involved in American documentation projects.
(source: https://books.google.ie/books/about/Gardens_of_Sand.html?id=0W-ISQAACAAJ&source=kp_author_description&redir_esc=y)
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