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Portraiture and early studio photography in China and Japan /

"This volume explores the early history of the photographic studio and portrait in China and Japan. The institution of the photographic studio has received relatively little attention in the history of photography; contributors here investigate various manifestations of the studio as a place an...

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Group Author: Gartlan, Luke; Wue, Roberta
Published: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Chinese
Japanese
Subjects:
Photography > China > History
Photography > Japan > History
Portrait photography > China
Portrait photography > Japan
Portraits, Chinese
Portraits, Japanese
Summary: "This volume explores the early history of the photographic studio and portrait in China and Japan. The institution of the photographic studio has received relatively little attention in the history of photography; contributors here investigate various manifestations of the studio as a place and as a space that was cultural, economic, and creative. Its authors also look closely at the studio portrait not as images alone, but also as collaborative ventures between studio operators and sitters, opportunities to invent new roles, images which merged the new medium with "traditional" visual prac
Item Description: "An Ashgate Book"--Cover.
Carrier Form: xv, 252 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 26 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [224]-242) and index.
ISBN: 9781472484383 (hardback) :
147248438X (hardback)
Index Number: TR101
CLC: J409.313
J409.2
Call Number: J409.2/P853
Contents: Studios and Photographers. Shimizu Tōkoku and the Japanese Carte-de-visite : circumscriptions of Yokohama photography / Luke Gartlan -- Group encounters : Milton M. Miller's Hong Kong and Canton photographs / Roberta Wue -- Powkee and the era of large studios / Yi Gu -- Sitters and Domestic Markets. Guiding the sitter : Matsuzaki Shinji's Dos and Don'ts for the Photographic Customer / Sebastian Dobson -- Chinese ideas of likeness : photography, painting, and intermediality / Claire Roberts -- Inscribed photographic portraits : commemoration and self-fashioning in republican-period China /

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