One of the first photojournalists in the world, John Thomson, traveled to China and took photographs of Chinese people in the late 19th century. His photographs have been widely circulated, collected by the Wellcome Gallery in England and by National... ...full story at Danwei
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| 08 Nov 08 |
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From Beijing With Hate... "a hate for taking photographs" »
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Childhood photographs of me in beijing that I finally found out of the blue from my garage stash...just decided to share it with ya'll. The song in the background is me (Xianning) singing Ikanaide (chinese version) aka the... |
| 22 Apr 09 |
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Photos from the Late Qing Dynasty » Shanghaiist Satisfying our craving for old China photographs, the BBC has put up some online versions of rare 19th Century prints that recently went on display in Beijing. The photos were taken by John Thomson, a Scot who visited China from 1868 to 1872, the later... |
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Photographs of 19th-century Turkestan » Granite Studio For those interested in Central Asian history, the Library of Congress has made available online a large collection of photographs from the 1860s. The original collection was compiled under the direction of Konstantin Petrovich Von Kaufman (1818-1882),... |
| 05 Feb 08 |
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HK star apologizes for sexy photographs » Shanghai Daily HONG Kong actor Edison Chen apologized last night to all people involved over a series of photographs that purportedly showed him partially nude with several starlets in bed. The video apology came exactly one week after the photographs, allegedly of... |
| 06 Feb 09 |
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Online Collections: Historical Photographs of China; Korean War » Granite Studio Via H-Asia: Historical Photographs of China Historical Photographs of China project, School of Humanities, University of Bristol, UK & Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO), Lyon, France Self-description: “A collaboration between scholars at the... |
| 20 Mar 08 |
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Confessions of Veteran Photojournalists » ESWN Veteran Chinese photographs dig out their archives and explained on their personal blogs how they had directed and altered their previous works. |
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