Power and Perspective

Early Photography in China

Karina H. Corrigan, Stephanie H. Tung, Bing Wang , Tingting Xu

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Yale University Press
26 October 2022

Oriental art; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Photographs: collections; General & world history; Asian history

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 Drawing primarily from the Peabody Essex Museum’s historic and largely unpublished collection of photographs, this generously illustrated volume examines the confrontations and collaborations that shaped the adoption and practice of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.

Contributions by: Bing Wang, Tingting Xu
Edited by: Karina H. Corrigan, Stephanie H. Tung
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 254mm,
ISBN: 9780300263633
ISBN 10: 0300263635
Pages: 340
Publication Date: 26 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karina H. Corrigan is associate director–collections and the H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art, and Stephanie H. Tung is the Byrne Family Curator of Photography, both at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Reviews for Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China

“This substantial and lavishly illustrated book is an important contribution to scholarship. . . . A timely reassessment of early photography in China that urges readers to reflect.”—Claire Roberts, Burlington Magazine Winner of the Photography Network Prize, sponsored by the Photography Network