...Dorothee Xiaolong Hou Abstract Chen Ronghui (b.1989) is a Chinese photographer based in Shanghai. His work focuses on China's urbanization and de/industrialization, particularly the issues arising from the position of the individual within their shifting urban environment. While China's drastic...

... of absence, secrecy, and irretrievability. The short pieces continue to explore the tensions between universal concerns, medium specificity, and local struggles. Dorothee Xiaolong Hou's interview with Shanghai-based photographer Chen Ronghui discusses his work on China's urbanization and de...

... est infime et sa recherche ingrate ou malsame, être recueilli par le «déchet social condamné à de faibles salaires, à une vie différente de la vie ordinaire et certainement dédaignée. Nous pouvons ainsi nous attendre à voir s’établir une industrie du chiffon, un commerce du chiffon, a voir tout le...

... that year, the nation's entire photographic industry de-privatized in kind: by the late 1950s, “all photographic activity took place under the jurisdiction of the Xinhua News Agency ( Xinhua tongxun she ).” 13 Colorists were no longer able to independently advertise idiosyncratic aesthetic or unique...

... gongye juxing yuanqu de beiying [ A Dialogue with Gongyuan: A Fallen Star in the History of Chinese Photosensitive Industry ], (Beijing: Zhongguo minzu sheying yishu chubanshe, 2014), 57. 4. Qin Shulan, “ Xinhuashe sheyingbu zai quanmian yuejin ” (The Photography Department of Xinhua News Agency...

... photography centers and museums have imported talent from overseas to build their teams and international networks. Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, established in 2019 in western China, is headed by Jean-Luc Monterosso (previously the founder and director of Maison Européenne de la Photographie, in Paris...

...; rather, it was the headquarters of the business Commercial and Industrial Company of Indochina (Compagnie commerciale et industrielle de l’Indochine). Thus we could call these postcards the last by Decoly. 36 He collected and printed images in black and white as well as color. He printed images...

... of Documentary and the Critique of Modernism (curated for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid), argues that documentary photography must recreate a self-critique and a “neo-avant-garde” articulation to overcome modernist myths on photography such as its transparency and universal meaning...

... Division, Washington, D.C. Scenic views of the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara provide topographical context by familiarizing the viewer with the Stambouline skyline as well as staging coded messages of the imperial modernization project. One such photograph, titled “Vue de Bosphore et de Roumeli...

...Yi Gu [email protected] Shih-Lun Chang , Xianshi de tanqiu: Taiwan sheyingshi xinggoukao [Reclaiming Reality: On the Historical Formation of Taiwanese Photography]. Taipei : VOP Books , 2021 . Copyright © 2023 Yi Gu 2023 This is an open access article distributed under...

... and foreground the complexity of mankind’s interrelation with nature, the implications of environmental degradation for social and cultural life, and the inescapable transnationalism of contemporary art. Research for this paper was supported by the research group InterAsia (Universitat Autònoma de...

...) and Photographic Modernism in Japan.” Trans Asia Photography Review , vol. 7, issue 1, 2016. Domela-Nieuwenhuis, César. “Fotomontage.” Fotomontage: Ausstellung im Lichthof des Ehemaligen Kunst-Gewerbemuseums [Catalogue of the exhibition at the Kunstgewerbemuseums, Berlin]. Reprinted in Photomontage between...

... Museum. “En Chine : Le gâteau des Rois et…des Empereurs,” Petit journal , 1898. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE HARVARD LIBRARY The organizers of the exhibition and the editors of this catalog have done prodigious research to identify and secure relevant images. Their having assembled them...

... and the estates of Kim Kichan and Lee Hyungrok. In recent years, with the growing interest in fin de siècle Korean visual culture and history, several exhibitions and exhibition catalogs (both in Korea and abroad) have brought attention to photography as a crucial source of understanding and visualizing...

... and the photograph from real society,” and the critic Ina Nobuo’s essay that urged photographers to “return to photography” in the New Photography movement’s de facto flagship journal, Koga (1932–33). 8 The curator Kaneko Ryuichi expands on Iizawa’s observations in the catalogue essay accompanying the 2012...

... there for three years (1882–85). Based on several inscribed cartes -de-visite given to Doost Mohammad by female friends, it is speculated that he could have had love affairs with various women. 35 While in Paris, he learned the art of photography but also squandered his father’s inheritance, which led him...

... many others, and support by institutions such as Stanford University, the de Young Museum, and the Japanese American National Museum, Uyeda and Izumi and other marginalized Asian American artists have become more visible, seen as integral threads of an extensive transnational and cosmopolitan web...

... albums, 146 collotypes, 556 gravures and photogravures, and 22 offset plate rare books, with formats varying from cartes-de-visite to large plate landscapes, along with several mammoth plate portraits and panoramas. Although it also incorporates several other acquisitions (even some from 2014), Garden...

... years, however, its photographic collection has grown substantially to almost 20,000 images with the acquisition of materials from both home and abroad. The collection ranges from classic 19 th -century topographic views and carte-de-visites to stereoscopic views, photo albums, studio portraits...

.... Even before public art museums in Japan began to pay serious attention to the photographic medium in the 1990s, department stores regularly held photography exhibitions, including Shashin no genryū 1822-1906 ( Naissance et développement de la photographie ), a 1984 exhibition that showcased...