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发表于2024-11-05
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A new look at old photographs, Picturing the Chinese shows historical events in China that for most readers have existed until now only in words: the Opium War, the Boxer Rebellion, the opening of Chinese ports to Western missionaries and tourists. Here are documentary and landscape photographs, studio portraits and picture postcards, all chosen from private collections, archives and libraries in Shanghai, London, Paris and Boston. Beautifully captured on camera by such renowned photographers as John Thomson and Felice Beato, the subject matter ranges from military engagements and panoramas of Beijing to Chinese courtesans and convicts.
These eloquent photographs are accompanied by an enthralling historical account which relates the new technology of vision, as it was then, to the imperialist penetration of China by the West, weaving together such fascinating themes as chinoiserie and the hidden cultural biases of the viewers. The result is a rich interplay of word and image that will inform and engage the general reader no less than the China specialist or student of photography.
A practising photographer, artist and lecturer, Grace Lau was born in London of Chinese parentage. She has exhibited widely, including at the National Portrait Gallery and Photofusion, London. A retrospective of her photography work appears in her first book "Adults in Wonderland." In the course of writing "Picturing the Chinese", she received a grant from Arts Council England to recreate a nineteenth-century Chinese portrait studio in the seaside town of Hastings, England, and to take portraits of present-day 'types' in an echo of early Western photographs of the Chinese. A selection of these protraits was shown at "How We Are", the 2007 Tate Britian exhibition on the history of British photography
本书题材是1839年摄影术发明之后外国人拍中国的影像,时间集中在清后期和民国前期。作者是现代人,出生于伦敦的华裔,写作初衷是试图对摄影者的选择做解读,所依据的理论框架就是东方主义中的“他们”和“我们”。一方是来自西方的摄影家(以及背后的西方观众),一方是中国这...
评分首先承蒙马总惠赐此书一阅。 所谓“好马配好鞍”,这样一本摄影史的书,“马”自然是书中的图片,这是此书最具价值的地方,而所谓的“鞍”则是文字性的解释,依我看此书作者对于中国历史的认识实在一般,而翻译者竟然连萨义德与史景迁也翻译不出,这就实在让人汗颜。不过或许是...
评分首先承蒙马总惠赐此书一阅。 所谓“好马配好鞍”,这样一本摄影史的书,“马”自然是书中的图片,这是此书最具价值的地方,而所谓的“鞍”则是文字性的解释,依我看此书作者对于中国历史的认识实在一般,而翻译者竟然连萨义德与史景迁也翻译不出,这就实在让人汗颜。不过或许是...
评分引用书中的两段话即可知其主旨: “即使中国不是西方的正式殖民地,摄影发明后,有关中国的描述和反映也只能放在全球殖民主义的背景中去理解。在19世纪后半叶,摄影随同日益进取的欧美人士来到中国,不单是军事和领土的渗透,也影响了科学和文化。不管他是士兵、商人、传教士或...
评分本书题材是1839年摄影术发明之后外国人拍中国的影像,时间集中在清后期和民国前期。作者是现代人,出生于伦敦的华裔,写作初衷是试图对摄影者的选择做解读,所依据的理论框架就是东方主义中的“他们”和“我们”。一方是来自西方的摄影家(以及背后的西方观众),一方是中国这...
Picturing the Chinese pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024