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AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: 15th United States Infantry [Regiment]
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: ~1920s
TITLE of ITEM: Snapshots of China (vol.1)
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: 15th United States Infantry [Regiment], Tientsin, China; 36 leaves.
FORMAT of ITEMS: 25 x 32 cm.
DETAILS about IMAGES: Ca. two hundred b/w photographs;
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
North China;
CITIES: Tientsin (Tianjin), Beijing (Peking)
OTHER TOPICS COVERED:
American and Chinese Military;
NOTES: I only have information about the first volume of this title, but there may have been more successive volumes published.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Abe
Keiji 阿部銈二 (監輯)
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1918
TITLE of ITEM:
Chintō shashin annai : tsuketari kanmin
benran 青島寫眞案內 : 附官民便覽
SUBTITLE:
Tsing Tau picture guide with
directory of officials and private citizens
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Associates of the Tsing Tau Picture Guide Publishers
PREFACE or EPILOGUE:
Prefatory remarks by Lieutenant General Fusataro Hongo; Dr. Ganosuke
Akiyama; Juro Natsuaki; Iuko Nakano, Esq.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Chintō Shashin Annai Hakkojō hensan, Chinto (Qingdao); 273 plates,
72, 8, 1 p. + fold-out map.
FORMAT of ITEMS: 23 x 31 cm.
DETAILS about IMAGES: Several
hundred b/w photographs; one color photograph;
one
panoramic view of the city.
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northeast China; Shandong;
CITIES:
Qingdao (Tsingtau)
OTHER TOPICS COVERED:
Japanese business establishments,
their proprietors, officials, government and military installations. Laoshan landscapes;
Qingdao beaches; the former Strandhotel; old military batteries;
Tsingtau beer brewery; piers and the harbor; Qingdao railway station
and railroad transportation; factories and shops; street scenes; coal
and mining activity; gendarmerie
(police station); public gardens; European architecture; Japanese
architecture in China; elementary school; vintage automobile;
Japanese economic interests in
China; trade and commodities; banking and merchants;
NOTES: Very rare item; I have only ever seen one copy of
this book. Very exhaustive visual
documentary of Qingdao after the Japanese take-over shortly before.
Every shop, every monument, every corner of the city seems to be
photographically represented. The most exhaustive pre-war coverage I
have come across so far, even surpassing Friedrich Behme in comprehensiveness. The quality of the
images is, however, only documentary, and the quality of the
reproductions themselves in the book is somewhat less than satisfying.
What is of high value is the directory of officials, enterprises and
private citizens. This appended
(complete it would appear) index of names of Japanese shops and
individuals makes this volume not only an interesting pictorial guide,
but also a highly useful reference tool.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Ah Fong (Studio)
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: ca. 1937
TITLE of ITEM:
The Sino-Japanese Hostilities
SUBTITLE:
Shanghai - A photo album
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Ah Fong
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Shanghai
FORMAT
of ITEMS: 6x23.5 cm; 6x8 cm 23 x 31 cm.
DETAILS about IMAGES:
110 b/w photographs; (original photographs pasted to stiff carton).
Frontispice has a fold-out index to the image captions.
CITIES:
Shanghai
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: "Though
of small size, these photographs show very distinctly the Japanese
bombardments and invasion, August 13th to September 30th 1937" (Cathay
catalog, p.21); Anti-Japanese war and resistance;
NOTES: Rare
item. Individual photographs might have been for sale; table of
contents listing at the beginning of the album.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Alekseev, V.M.
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1908 (Russian edition); 1989
German edition.
TITLE
of ITEM: China
im Jahre 1907
SUBTITLE: Ein
Reisetagebuch
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Alekseev, V.M.
PREFACE or EPILOGUE:
Riftin, B.
PUBLISHER / PLACE / PAGES:
Möller & Kiepenheur Verl., Hanau/Leipzig/Weimar; 431
p.
FORMAT
of ITEMS: 8 x 23,5 cm; 11,5 x 18,2 and smaller
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): see the well written
epilogue by Riftin.
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Not
clear, presumably "trimmed" large format camera.
DETAILS about IMAGES:
62 b/w photographs
REGIONS or PROVINCES: Northern
China: Hebei, Shandong; Central China: Henan, Shaanxi;
CITIES:
Xian; Luoyang; Kaifeng; Qufu; Beijing;
SCENIC SITES:
Catholic church in Xian (Tianzhutang); Dayanta (Wild Goose Pagoda);
grave mound of Guan Yu; Longmendong 龙门洞; Tieta (iron pagoda); Bota
Pagoda; Biyunsi; Pailou at the Konglin 孔林; Taishan Bixiasi and
Yuhuangding, Nantian men (heavenly gate); steles; Summer Palace
Yiheyuan 颐和园; Tiantan;
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Taisui statue
(Jupiter); four heavenly kings; street scenes; Kuixing rubbing; Xuanwu
statue; Liu Daben; Konglin (Grave and grove of Confucius); statues of
Sun Bin, Shennong, Fuxi and Huangdi; Zhengyangmen (Beijing); market
scenes; Grand Canal (Da yunhe); Temple guardian Ha; Buddhist monks;
scenes from Buddhist hell; Edouard Chavannes;
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Allgood, George
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1901
TITLE of ITEM:
China War 1860
SUBTITLE:
Letters and Journal
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Beato, Felice
PUBLISHER / PLACE / PAGES:
Longmans Green & Co; London; 107 p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
Large oblong 8vo.
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): see the title Of
Battle and Beauty - Felice Beato's Photographs of China, by
David Harris.
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 21 b/w photographs, incl. two large
panoramas;
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Northern China: Hebei;
CITIES:
Shanhaiguan; Taku (Dagu) Forts.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Alonso, M.E.
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1979
TITLE of ITEM: China`s
Inner Asian Frontier
SUBTITLE:
Photographs of the Wulsin Expedition to Northwest China in 1923, from
the Archives of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and the
National Geographic Society
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Alonso, M.E.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Presumably Boston
REGIONS and PROVINCES: Northern
China
NOTES:
Frederick Wulsin himself published an account of his expedition in the National
Geographic Magazine
under the title "The Road to Wang Yeh Fu" (February 1926, pages
195-234). For additional materials see the recent (2003) publication by
Mabel Cabot: Vanished Kingdoms - A Woman Explorer in China, Tibet and
Mongolia 1921-1925. See the entry under "Cabot" for more details.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1929
TITLE of ITEM:
Ceylon und Indochina. Burma,
Siam, Kambodscha, Annam, Tongking und Yunan
SUBTITLE:
Baukunst, Landschaft und Volksleben
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Atlantis/Wasmuth Verl.; Berlin; xxxix p.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES:
Orbis Terrarum HBK 7561
DETAILS about IMAGES: 288 b/w
photographs.
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Southern China: Yunnan
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1860
TITLE of ITEM:
China
SUBTITLE:
An Album of Thirty-six Photographs Taken During the Chinese War, 1860 -
many of them taken as the British Forces entered Peking.
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
unknown (British military photographer?)
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Beijing (?)
FORMAT
OF ITEM: 38 x 43 cm.
DETAILS about IMAGES: 37 leaves of
mounted photos (partly folded).
NOTES: I
have not seen this album.
It is held at the Library of the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis.
It sounds as if it is a compilation of Felice Beato's work.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: about 1916
TITLE of ITEM:
Walter J. Bronson
photographs of China, 1916-1917
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Bronson, Walter J.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES:
Bibliographical evidence pertaining to this collection can be found in
RLIN under NJPG91A8 as archival material in the AMC database. Text of
the entry: "Consists of 168 photographs (with negatives) of China taken
in 1916-1917 by Bronson when he was eight years old traveling with his. Since photographs by foreigners were
forbidden at that time in China, Bronson's camera was hidden in a
wooden box from which he surreptitiously took pictures. Included are
views of villages, rivers, railroad stations, temples, Tientsin
(Tianjin), peasants, and military officers."
DETAILS about IMAGES:
168 b/w photographs
REGIONS
and PROVINCES: Northern China
CITIES: Tianjin
SCENIC
SITES: Temples
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Military;
Farmers, Rivers.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1892
TITLE of ITEM: Chinese Customs
SUBTITLE: Indelible Photographs
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Adolph Wittemann (New York) & Jos. Hofmann (San Francisco); no pag. Wittemann and Hofmann were publishers of souvenir albums.
FORMAT
OF ITEM: 14 x 10 cm
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): unknown
DETAILS about IMAGES:
15 b/w photographs
REGIONS
and PROVINCES: California
CITIES: San Francisco (Chinatown)
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Joss
House; Chinese theater and actor, funeral procession; funeral feast;
fortune teller;
Chinese girl with bound feet; mixed marriage; accountants; dragon
procession; opium smoking; vegetable peddlar; offerings to the
dead.
NOTES: Published
long before Arnold Genthe's photographic studies of San Francisco's
Chinatown, this is certainly one of the earliest published photographic portfolios
of Chinese life in California.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1900-1902
TITLE of ITEM: Ostasien
- Photo album
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Lichtdruck
M. Glückstadt; Münden; n. p., no date (ca. 1910s?)
FORMAT OF ITEM /
FORMAT OF IMAGES: 6,5
x 25 cm / 11 x 18 cm
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old style wet plates)
DETAILS about
IMAGES: 206 b/w photographs
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China; Hebei;
CITIES: Beijing; Tianjin; Tianjin
Wilhelmsstrasse; Beidaihe; Yangcun; Shanhaiguan; Baodingfu; Donggu
(fortification at the coast); Shanghai;
SCENIC SITES: Marble
boat; Emperor's Palace; Summer Palace; "Coal Hill"; Temple (as field
hospital and military barracks); Great Wall; Tianjin railway station;
Temple halls;
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Field hospital; foreign troops in
Tientsin; Taku-Forts (Dagu paotai 大古炮台);
conflict between Russia and England in Tianjin; water carrier;
wheelbarrow; barber; Chinese vigilants (robbers and murderers); Chinese
singer (singsong girl); Boxer uprising; military; weapons.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1902
TITLE of ITEM: La
Chine à Terre et en Ballon
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Paris / Berger-Levrault (75-Paris : héliotypie E. Le Deley)
/ 18 p., 42 folios of plates.
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Capitaines Calmel,
Plaisant, Tissier. Nothing else known about these members of
the French Army in China.
FORMAT OF ITEM /
FORMAT OF IMAGES: 34
cm
TECHNICAL
DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old style wet plates)
DETAILS about
IMAGES: 41 (or 272 ?) collotype plates.
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China.
CITIES:
Beijing; Tianjin.
NOTES:
Very early aerial photography of certain parts of China (and certain
cities, such as Beijing); there is some confusion over the number of
photographs in this volume: an entry in the library catalog of the
university of Dijon (France) reads: "Reproduction de 272 photographies
exécutées par des officiers du Génie
du Corps expéditionnaire [par les capitaines Calmel,
Plaisant, Tissier]." Offered for sale by Maggs Bros. in their catalog #
1379 (2005, item 69). The U of California-Berkeley holds a copy.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: ca. 1890
TITLE of ITEM:
Photo album
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Private album
DETAILS about IMAGES: 111 b/w
images
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Shandong
CITIES:
Qingdao;
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Album put together by a sailor on board
the German vessel S.M.S. Kaiser. Images depict the commanding officers,
the crew, and historical personae such as the German emperor Kaiser
Wilhelm II and Prinz Heinrich, both in the uniform of an admiral; rear
admiral Tirpitz as the station chief in East Asia. Further photographs
record excursions into the Chinese interior, including again Tirpitz
and his staff. Another section is devoted to German, American, Belgian,
Italian, British, Turkish, Austrian, Russian and French battle ships,
plus a couple of shots of the ill-fated S.M.S. Iltis (before and after
the disaster). Four steamers of the Japan-America line; one final
section consists of 43 studio photographs of Japan, 33 of which are
hand-colored.
NOTES:
Album was privately sold in 1996.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Johnson, C.
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: ~1910
TITLE of ITEM: The Yangtse Gorges
SUBTITLE: A Photographic Souvenir
PREFACE: C. Johnson
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
unknown
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES: Huachen catalog Spring 2008, item 1231
DETAILS about IMAGES: 14 b/w
photographs. One map.
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Western China: Sichuan
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Yangzi Gorges; Changjiang;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: ca. 1875
TITLE of ITEM:
Photo album
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Private album
DETAILS about IMAGES: 122 b/w
images;
FORMAT
of ITEMS: 22 x 28 cm;
CITIES: Hong
Kong
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Temple, street scenes, workers at weaving
chairs, school classes, opium smoker(s), decapitation scene (fake or
staged?), courtroom scene;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: ca. 1879
TITLE of ITEM: Album of Photographs of Peking and Environs
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Private album (no provenance, no creator indicated)
DETAILS about IMAGES: Ca. 95 b/w
pasted original photographs (plates);
FORMAT
of ITEMS: 31 x 42 cm;
CITIES: Peking (Beijing), Tientsin (Tianjin);
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Biyunsi; Treaty Temple (Haiguangsi)
NOTES:
Held in the Rare and Manuscript Collection of Cornell University
Library as a boxed and numbered Wason Photo Album (oddly enough
declared missing in the on-line catalog as of March 12, 2008).
For a complete listing of the photographs see this tabulated file.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: ca. 1875
TITLE of ITEM:
Photo album
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Private Album
DETAILS about IMAGES: 110 b/w
images;
FORMAT
of ITEMS: 22 x 28 cm;
CITIES: Hong
Kong
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Street scenes, Hong Kong harbor, Victoria
Peak.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1922
TITLE of ITEM:
Photographic album of the
last Dowager Empress & Emperor of Ch'ing dynasty China
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Chinese court photographer
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Beijing (?)
FORMAT OF ITEM:
Calico cotton covered accordion folded album, 11 x 16 cm.
DETAILS about IMAGES:
10 original and mounted photos. They show the Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧,
Pu Yi, his wifes Wen Xiu and Wan Rong, Pu Yi's younger brother, Prince
Chun, the coronation of Pu Yi at age three.
NOTES: On sale on very rare
occasions, usually expensive (close to $1,000); I have not seen an original copy of this
album, and do not know the real title
of this little piece. There are many fakes
of this volume on the market(s), and it may be the case that an
original album of this nature never existed in the form it is sold in
the Beijing markets.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY:
Anonymous
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1919
TITLE of ITEM:
Shantung
SUBTITLE:
The Eastern Alsace-Lorraine
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Asia
Publishing Company / New York
FORMAT of ITEMS: 22,8 x 30,5 cm;
16,5 x 11,8 cm and smaller
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): none
available
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 126 b/w images
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China; Shandong
CITIES: Qingdao; Weihaiwei; Weixian;
Qufu
SCENIC
SITES: City walls; Government buildings in Qingdao;
Taishan-Temple; Confucius-Temple in Qufu; Grave of Confucius;
OTHER TOPICS
COVERED: Grand Canal near Jinan; Military (jap.);
Embankments of the Yellow River (Huanghe); coolies;
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: between 1900 and 1910 (?)
TITLE of
ITEM: Tsingtau
SUBTITLE:
Souvenir Album mit 50 Ansichten - Album with 50 views
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Quite possibly Friedrich Behme and others.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Qingdao (Tsingtau), Verlag von Adolf Haupt; 25 p.(?)
FORMAT OF ITEM:
10 1/4" by 8 1/4"
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 50 b/w photographs.
NOTES: Pictures
featuring places such as Diederichsstein, Irene Road, Government's
House, Kaiser Wilhelm-Ufer and many other views of the developing city.
Rare item. For
the book's cover click here.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1920-1949
TITLE of ITEM:
Zhanshi huakan
战时画刊
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Liangyou tushu gongsi
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES: Cornell, Wason
Catalog; LC-# DS701.C396
NOTES: Illustrated journal
documenting the period of warfare in Republican China.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1925
TITLE of ITEM: V
Kitaiskikh kumirniath gor. Ashikhe
SUBTITLE:
Fotografichskii al'bom s 32-mi snimkami fotografa D. Raninin
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Raninina, D.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Kharbin (Harbin)
FORMAT of ITEM:
21,4 x 27,4 cm
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 32 b/w photographs;
REGIONS or PROVINCE: Northern
China; Heilongjiang (former Manchuria);
CITIES: Acheng
SCENIC SITES: Temple
of the God of Wealth; Wenchangge 文昌阁.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Daoist
priests; Temple gods of Northern China;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1935/36
TITLE of ITEM:
Durch China mit der Kamera
SUBTITLE:
Eine Zusammenstellung von Tiefdruckbildern zugunsten der Winterhilfe
1935/1936 von zwei Schanghai-Deutschen.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
no details given
FORMAT
of ITEM: 7,5 x 24,5 cm; 8,5 x 13 cm
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA
AND FILM MATERIAL: 35 mm camera
DETAILS about IMAGES:
12 b/w photographs
CITIES: Beijing, Nanjing, Wuxi,
Shanghai, Suzhou, Harbin.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Weaving,
butcher, small-scale traders, street scenes.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: ca. 1895
TITLE of ITEM:
A Photographic Album of the
Japan-China War
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Tokyo ?
FORMAT of ITEM:
30 x 45 cm;
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
SOURCES: Voluminous work on the Japan-China war of
1894/95, divided into three parts: "1) The Campaign in Corea, 2) The
Fall of Port Arthur, 3) and the Expedition to Weihaiwei". The
photographs document the situations of the various battle sites: the
battle fleets and landing operations, troop encampments, fighting
positions, conquered cities and destroyed fortresses, life in the
camps, etc.
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Member of the army (?)
TECHNICAL DATA
ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old style
wet plates);
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 40 plates, 14 of them rendered after
artistic sketches (the battle scenes);
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China
CITIES:
Port Arthur;
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: China-Japan war; Japanese troops; battle
at sea; war ships;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE
BODY: Anonymous
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: ca. 1903
TITLE of ITEM:
China
SUBTITLE:
Kultus und Kultur
PREFACE or EPILOGUE: Rudolf Stübel
FORMAT of ITEM:
6 x 22cm
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
SOURCES: None.
DETAILS about IMAGES: 92 Brom
silver photograps on carton;
CITIES: Beijing (12 photographs)
SCENIC SITES: Deities,
iconographic objects, objects of worship;
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Members
of the Peace Convention in Beijing in 1901; Monument of the Freiherr
von Ketteler.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: ca.1910
TITLE of ITEM:
Photo-Album
SUBTITLE:
Japan und China
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
no place given
FORMAT of ITEM: Quarto
DETAILS about IMAGES:
262 original photographs on 31 plates (of these 27 colored on 12
plates)
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Northern China; Shandong
CITIES: Jinan;
Nagasaki; Nikko; Kyoto; Yokohama;
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: This album
contains colorized souvenir style photographs of Kioto (Kyoto),
Yokohama, Nikko with everyday life situations, landscapes, temple
compounds, musicians, various bridges, farmers harvesting rice, street
festivals, fish vendors, vegetable stand in the street, etc.
Furthermore, private photographs with handwritten captions, such as:
visitation of the gouvernor in Jinan (Tsinan fu); vista of the walls
and city gates of Jinan; the garden of viceroy Jang (?) in Tsinanfu
(Jinan), hot sulphur springs in the vicinity of Mogi; landscapes mostly
from the vicinity of Nagasaki, Tsing Poo, Taku
(Dagu Forts), Jangtsekiang (Yangzijiang), the waters around
Ningpo with junks, sailing and fishing vessels, house boats, temples,
various pagodas und camel back bridges, water buffalos.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: ca.1913
TITLE of ITEM:
Photo-Album
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
no place given
DETAILS about IMAGES: 45 b/w
photographs
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: These photographs depict landscapes and
parks, architecture such as buildings, bridges and monuments. Many of
the images have captions with technical details about the aperture, F
value etc. used in creating the photograph.
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China; Shandong; Southern China;
CITIES:
Beijing; Shanghai; Canton, etc.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: ca.1918
TITLE of ITEM:
Album von Kiautschou und der
Schantung-Halbinsel
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Tokyo (?)
FORMAT of ITEM:
Quarto
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 16 colour, 94 b/w photographs
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China; Shandong.
CITIES: Qingdao
NATURE of IMAGES:
Documentary
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: ca. 1930
TITLE of ITEM:
China Photo-Album
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
unknown
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: 35
mm camera
DETAILS
about IMAGES: ca. 100 images, format 10 x 7.5 cm and
smaller
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Northern China; Hebei
CITIES:
Beijing;
SCENIC
SITES: Great Wall, Confucius temple (Kongmiao 孔庙), Lama
temple (Yonghegong 雍和宫) etc.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1900
TITLE of ITEM:
Xihu 西湖
SUBTITLE:
Fengjing huace 风景画册
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: [China]: Shijie she 世界社, [19--?]
FORMAT of ITEM:
Chiefly illustrations; 24 cm
REGIONS or PROVINCES: Zhejiang
CITIES: Hangzhou;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE
BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: Ca. 1900
TITLE of ITEM: Souvenir Chili-China
FORMAT of ITEM:
35 x 26.5 cm
DETAILS about
IMAGES: 147 b/w photographs; sizes 13x8.5 cm and up to 26x18.5 cm
CITIES:
Beijing; Tianjin (Tientsin), Shanhaiguan;
SCENIC SITES: Nankou-Pass; Taku-Forts (Daku-forts)
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Boxer Rebellion; military subjects;
NOTES: This
album is privately owned by Christine Berg. Her personal web site (in
German) exhibits another 50 or so b/w photographs of China. The entry
point to this private on-line exhibit is here.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1917
TITLE of ITEM:
CHINA IN 1917: An Album With
124 Hand-Colored Photographs
FORMAT of ITEMS: 35 x 26 cm; 16 x
11 cm and 8 x 6 cm
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): none available
DETAILS about
IMAGES: 124 photographs
CITIES:
Beijing, Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong
SCENIC SITES: The
Summer Palace, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall;
NOTES: This
album was part of the C.R. Thomson family tour of photo albums
recording their journey and tour of the Far East; the album contains
several white penned captions, dates, & names.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE
BODY: Anonymous
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1995
TITLE of ITEM:
Old Photographs of Chinese
Cities - Hong Kong, Macau, Canton, Amoy, Shanghai and Peking 1865-1912
SUBTITLE:
An exhibition held at the Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong in January 1995,
presented by Horstmann & Godfrey Limited Ocean Terminal,
Kowloon, Hong Kong
CITIES:
Hong Kong, Macao (Macau), Canton, Amoy (Xiamen), Shanghai and Beijing
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Aris, Michael
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1992
TITLE of ITEM:
Lamas, Princes and Brigands
SUBTITLE:
Joseph Rock's Photographs of
the Tibetan Borderlands of China
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Joseph Rock
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: With the assistance of Patrick Booz and
contributions by S.B. Sutton and Jeffrey Wagner
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
China House Gallery, China Institute in America, New York; 141 p.
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER can be found here.
REGIONS or
PROVINCES: Southwest China; Tibet; Gansu;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Asia
Society Galleries
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1997
TITLE of ITEM:
Picturing Hong Kong
Photography 1855-1910
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: New York,
Braziller; 144 p.
FORMAT
of ITEM: 30 x 25 cm
REGIONS or PROVINCES: Hong Kong
CITIES:Hong
Kong
NOTES:An
excellent photographic record of early Hong Kong , done in some 89 fine
examples; arranged thematically, the photos showing Hong Kong sights,
portraits of its people, scenes of everyday life.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Bard, Solomon
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1988
TITLE
of ITEM: In
Search of The Past: A Guide To the Antiquities of Hong Kong - Xianggang
wenwu zhi 香港文物志
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: The Urban
Council; Hong Kong; 115 p.
REGIONS or PROVINCES: Hong Kong
CITIES:
Hong Kong
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: General maps of Hong Kong and the New
Territories; Chinese buildings such as ancestral halls and
study-libraries; rock carvings, rock inscriptions; western-style
buildings; forts.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Beato,
Felice
CO-AUTHOR:
Beatto, Felix (alternative way of writing)
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1987
TITLE of ITEM:
China 1860
SUBTITLE:
A Photographic Album by
Felice Beato
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Beato, Felice
PREFACE or EPILOGUE:
Crombie, Isobel
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
SOURCES: Article by Theye in: Der geraubte
Schatten (see also: History of Photography 11/1987, Nr.1)
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Beato took part in the
1860 military expedition on Beijing of the British-French troops as a
semi-official photographer (Theye p.384); In 1864 he transferred to
Yokohama. In existance are rather dramatic images of the attack on the Taku
Forts (Dagu paotai 大沽炮台) near Tianjin (compare the volume Ostasien
1900-1902); photographs of other battle sites, including
those of the participants of the punitive and destructive mission to
the Beijing Summer Palace. As far as is known, Beato left the negatives
behind in Yokohama (see Wilshusen p.181/2, Theye p.28). These negatives
were then taken over by his successor, Baron Raimund von Stillfried
Ratenicz, who then - in 1883 - sold the whole lot again to his
successor and assistant Kusakabe Kimbei and the company of A. Farsari
& Co. See more on Beato in Worswick/Spence.
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA
AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old style wet plates)
REGIONS or
PROVINCES: Northern China
NATURE of IMAGES:
Documentary; second opium war with China;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Beaton, Cecil
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1991
TITLE of ITEM: Chinese Diary & Album
PREFACE or EPILOGUE: Jane Carmichael
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Oxford University Press, Hong Kong; ISBN 0 19 585428 4
FORMAT of ITEM:
24 x 18 cm (?)
DETAILS
about IMAGES: ca. 160 b/w photographs (?)
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Twin-lens Rolleiflex (his "preferred camera")
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Was sent on behest of the British Ministry of Information to the Far East to cover the war and social conditions in China.
NOTES: This book is a re-issue of two of Beaton's most important photographic documentaries of China combined: Far East (1945), and Chinese Album
(Winter 1945-46); both volumes were originally published by B. T.
Batsford in London. The bulk of Beaton's original photographs from his
war-time assignments are housed at the Imperial War Museum in London.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Beausoleil, Jeanne
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 2001
TITLE of ITEM:
Images de Pékin
SUBTITLE:
L'Illusion de Permanence
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): various
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Paris, Edition Museé départemental Albert Kahn; China Forestry Publishing House; 126 p.
FORMAT OF ITEM:
20 x 25 cm.
DETAILS
about IMAGES: ca. 100 photographs from about 1912, some in color.
CITIES: Beijing
SCENIC SITES: Many scenes capturing Beijing's old city gates.
NOTES: Exhibition catalogue. Captions in French and Chinese.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Beers, Burton F.
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1981
TITLE of ITEM:
China in Old Photographs,
1860-1910
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Anonymous (perhaps
incl. Beato and Thomson?)
PREFACE or EPILOGUE: Beers, Burton
F. (good introduction)
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Dorset, New
York; 160 p.
FORMAT
of ITEM: 21,5 x 28 cm; 43 x 28 (double page) and smaller
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
SOURCES: The photographs in this volume were selected
from more than two thousand in the museum's files, and more than two
thirds of them were taken by Anonymousous photographers (preface p.9)
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Only a few words about
Beato and Thomson.
TECHNICAL
DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old
style wet plates)
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 64 b/w photographs.
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China: Hebei, Shandong; Southern China: Guangxi, Guangdong,
Fujian, Jiangsu, Zhejiang;
CITIES: Shanghai, Fuzhou, Beijing,
Qingdao, Guangzhou (Canton), Hongkong, Xiamen (Amoy), Hankou, Tianjin;
SCENIC SITES: Feilaisi,
on the Pearl River near Guangzhou; buildings straddling bridges;
Tianmudian (Queen of Heaven Temple) along the Min river; Pagodas in
Fuzhou und Guangzhou; Great Wall; Putuoshan; grotto temple; Lama
temple; Confucius temple; Ming tombs; Shendao; port of Shanghai; main
administrative building of the customs office of Shanghai; Russell
& Co. administrative buildings; house of Frank. B. Forbes; club
house; race course; Church; Marble Boat;
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Taku
forts (Dagu paotai); Kang-penalty; Indian troops; German
troops; Graf Waldersee; Kanone; junks; tea warehouses; dock workers;
women knitting and weaving; Opium smoker(s); furniture and interior
design; various building types of vernacular architecture; bound feet;
fortune teller; water carrier; fire brigade of the silk merchants guild
in Shanghai; gardens; barber; spinning cotton; fisheries; tea
plantation; irrigation of fields; tombs and graves; rain coats woven
from fiber; natural resources; arsenal in Tianjin; American consulate
in Shanghai; injured soldiers (Boxers); British gunboat H.M.S
Firebrand; harvesting rice.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Behme, Friedrich
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1897-1900
TITLE of ITEM:
Führer
durch Tsingtau und Umgebung
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Behme, Friedrich
TECHNICAL
DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old
style wet plates)
DETAILS
about IMAGES: The 150+ (smallish) photographs used in
this guidebook are based on approx.. 700 glas plates and lantern slides
now located at the German Historical Museum in Berlin.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): See Thomas Hahn's article about
Behme in: Tsingtau : ein Kapitel deutscher Kolonialgeschichte
in China 1897-1914 : [anlässlich der gleichnamigen Ausstellung
im Deutschen Historischen Museum Berlin] / ed. by Hans-Martin
Hinz und Christoph Lind; publ. in Eurasburg, Edition Minerva, 1998. The
on-line version can be found here.
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China: Shandong
CITIES: Qingdao; Jinan, Jimo, Gaomi,
Port Arthur, Langfang;
SCENIC SITES: Prinz Heinrich Hotel;
Diederichsstein; Laoshan; Haus Mecklenburg Bismarck-Kaserne;
OTHER TOPICS
COVERED: Railway station and railroads, harbor
installations, dry dock, industry; coolies, rikschas, personal
portraits; geological documentation of eastern Shandong Province;
battle ship Iltis.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Beijing shi dui wai wenhua
jiaoliu xiehui 北京市对外文化交流协会 and Beijing shi Xuanwuqu
<<Beijing lao Tianqiao>> huace bianweihui 北京市宣武區"北京老天橋"畫册編委會
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1993.12
TITLE of ITEM:
Beijing
lao tianqiao 北京老天桥
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: 150 p. (ISBN: 780554221X)
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA
AND FILM MATERIAL: no info supplied, presumably 24x36
format.
DETAILS
about IMAGES: ca. 160 b/w photographs, dating from
1911-1949; other images of more modern dates.
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China
CITIES:
Beijing
SCENIC
SITES: Tianqiao district
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Acrobats;
street peddlars, local culture; monks; musicians; drama performance;
foodstalls; bird market; barbers; antiquarian dealers; photographer's
shop; teahouse;
NATURE
of IMAGES: Of high documentary value (rare comprehensive
documentation of a specific trait of Chinese life in the northern
capital before 1949)
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Bettge, Götz
CO-AUTHOR:
Bruns, Alfred
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1982
TITLE of ITEM:
Ein Westfale in China
SUBTITLE:
Briefe und Fotographien 1895-1900; der Nachlass Robert
Löbbecke, Iserlohn
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Löbbecke, Robert et al.
PREFACE or
EPILOGUE: Bruns, Alfred
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Westfälische Quellen und
Archivverzeichnisse Bd.8; Münster/Westfalen; 448 p.
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Löbbecke was
acting as a consultant and instructor of the Chinese imperial troops
stationed in Nanjing. At the same time, he was an engineer in charge of
several projects in the region.
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large
format (old style wet plates)
DETAILS about IMAGES: 86 b/w
photographs
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Southern China: Jiangsu
CITIES:
Nanjing
SCENIC
SITES: City walls.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Street scenes,
beggars, opium smokers.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Bettge, Götz
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1989
TITLE of ITEM:
Iserlohn - China
SUBTITLE:
Berührungen mit dem Reich der Mitte (Stadtarchiv Iserlohn -
Beiträge und Mitteilungen Heft 3)
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Löbbecke, Robert
PREFACE or EPILOGUE: Bettge,
Götz
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Iserlohn; 36 p.
FORMAT of ITEM: 4,5 x 21 cm; 11 x
17,5 cm
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Löbbecke was
acting as a consultant and instructor of the Chinese imperial troops
stationed in Nanjing. At the same time, he was an engineer in charge of
several projects in the region.
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large
format (old style wet plates)
DETAILS about IMAGES: 15 b/w
photographs;
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Southern China: Jiangsu
CITIES:
Nanjing
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Street scenes, beggar, opium smoker(s);
Imperial troops and training grounds.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Birns, Jack
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 2003
TITLE of ITEM: Assignment Shanghai
SUBTITLE: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution (Contemporary Photography, 2)
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Jack Birns
PREFACE or EPILOGUE: Orville Schell
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: University of California Press; Berkeley, 144 p. ISBN 0520239903
FORMAT of ITEM: ca. 33 x 27 cm
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Jack Birns was a former Life Magazine photographer who was stationed in Shanghai during the final years of China's Civil War.
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: 35mm (Leica and/or Contax)
DETAILS about IMAGES: ca. 100 b/w
photographs;
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Southern China
CITIES: Shanghai
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Street scenes, beggars, bar girls (singsong girls), military, refugees.
NOTES: "For over half a century, Americans have been pondering the reasons for
the swift collapse of the Nationalist Chinese forces during 1948 and
early 1949. Jack Birns's agile lens brings many things into focus for
us: the manifold levels of urban poverty, the breakdown of any pretense
to social order, the random brutality meted out to suspected
Communists, and the unsparing distance between foreign privilege and
domestic deprivation. This book is a powerful addition to our pictorial
and emotional record of those bitter months." -- Jonathan D. Spence,
author of The Search for Modern China
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Bishop, J. F.
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: Ca. 1900
TITLE of ITEM:
Chinese Pictures
SUBTITLE: Notes on Photographs by Mrs. J. F. Bishop, F.R.G.S.
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Bishop, F.J.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Charles L. Bowman, New York; 126 p.
DETAILS about IMAGES: 60 b/w
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Liaoning; Zhejiang; Sichuan; Hebei; Fujian;
CITIES: Shanghai; Beijing; Shenyang (Mukden); Wanxian; Chengdu; Fuzhou (Foochow);
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: British
Legation, Beijing; Imperial Palace; Carriers and runners; bridges;
Yangzi River (Yangtze) rapids; Ten Thousand Ages Bridge, Fuzhou; Baby
Tower; Temple of the God of Literature (Wenchangge), Shenyang; Hulimiao
(Fox Spirit Temple), Shenyang; city gates; Market place; farm houses;
cobbler; marriage chair; Two Sichuan soldiers; Opium culture (poppy
fields) in Sichuan; Old Imperial Highway system.
- The Tablet (Altar) of Confucius (2.2MB)
- A Market Place or Market Street in Sze Chuan (Sichuan) (2.1MB)
- A Baby Tower (Foochow) (2.2MB)
- The Great Imperial Stone Road from Peking to Chengtu, the capital of Sze Chuan (Sichuan) (2.3MB)
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Black, J. R. (ed.)
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1876-1878
TITLE of ITEM:
The Far East
SUBTITLE:
A Monthly Journal, illustrated with Photographs
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Far East Printing Office; Tokio, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Shanghai
FORMAT of ITEM:
ca 22x17 cm
TECHNICAL
DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format camera.
REGIONS or
PROVINCES: China, Japan
NOTES: This very interesting and important early illustrated
journal (in conjunction with The Punch) has been
reprinted in its entirety in Japan in ca. 2000/2001.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Boerschmann, Ernst
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1982
TITLE of ITEM:
Old China In Historic
Photographs
SUBTITLE: 288
Views by Ernst Boerschmann With a New Introduction by Wan-go Weng
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Ernst Boerschmann
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: Wan-go Weng
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Dover Publications, Inc. New York; New York; 287 p.
FORMAT of ITEM: 22,5
x 27,5 cm
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Amidst the disorder
and revolutionary energy of China in 1906, a German architect and
photographer named Ernst Boerschmann sought the eternal "Orient". For
three years, while Manchu power decayed, he traveled across 12
provinces photographing according to his concept of the "changeless"
China: Buddhist monasteries, temples, sacred mountain groves, family
graves, memorials, monuments, the statuary and architecture of Chinese
worship and reverence.
DETAILS about IMAGES: ca. 288 b/w
REGIONS or
PROVINCES: Hebei; Shandong; Shanxi; Jiangsu; Hunan;
Fujian; Guangxi; Sichuan; Guangdong.
CITIES: Beijing; Chengde; Taiyuan;
Hangzhou; Ningbo; Changsha; Guangzhou; Chengdu; Wanxian ect.
SCENIC SITES: Part
of city walls; Temple of Heaven; Temple of Celestial Peace; Great Wall
of China; Summer Palace grounds; Temple of Universal Joy; Bridge in the
imperial park; Lake of the Great Brightness; Tai Shan; Monastery of the
Magical Cliff; Temple of Great Mercy; Wutaishan 五台山; Mianshan; Suzhou
thousand-armed Guanyin; West Lake; Tomb of General Yue Fei; Tiantongsi;
South wall of city; Temple of the Dragon King; Great Temple of
Confucius; Hengshan; Lake Dongting; Harbor with Drum Mountain (Gushan);
Monastery of the Boiling Spring; Great Mosque; Guilin; Gui River; Hall
of Laozi in a Taoist monastery; Emeishan; Temple of General Zhang Fei;
Fengdu 封都; Leshan 乐山; Bellows Gorge.
NOTES: The 288 pictures in this book, roughly half
still reflect the current appearance of their subjects, giving us the
impression that China; the pictures have become truly historical; they
are the previous images of China that has gone forever. This Dover edition, first published in 1982,
is a revised republication of Picturesque China| Architecture and
Landscape| A Journey Through Twelve Provinces, as published by
Brentano's, New York, n.d.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Works of architecture and objects that have
been destroyed or severely damaged beyond restoration; landscapes that
remain largely the same but are now covered with different buildings
and vegetation; people who no longer look the same or do the same
things depicted in the photographs; Gates and Walls; Religious
Edifices; Burial Palaces; Memorial Gates, Family/Ancestral Temples 祠堂
and Provincial Guild Clubs 会馆.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Bruce, George C.
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1937/38
TITLE of ITEM:
Shanghai`s Undeclared War
SUBTITLE:
An Illustrated Factual Recording of the Shanghai Hostilities 1937
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Mercury Press/Shanghai/ 88 p., 114 p. mit Aufnahmen
DETAILS about
IMAGES: ca. 200-300 b/w photographs
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Southern China
CITIES:
Shanghai
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Burger,
Wilhelm
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1868-1871
TITLE of ITEM:
Siam, China und Japan
SUBTITLE:
Ethnographische Aufnahmen von Wilhelm Burger, Photograph und Mitglied
der K.u.K. Mission nach Ostasien (1868-1871)
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Burger,
Wilhelm
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
SOURCES: Gift of the photographer and presented to the
Austrian emperor Kaiser Franz Joseph upon his return to Vienna in 1871;
the originals are housed in the National Library of Austria (division
"Bildarchiv und Portraitsammlung") as part of the Wilczek-Burger
collection; about Burger see the following study by Gert Rosenberg:
Wilhelm Burger: Ein Welt-und Forschungsreisender mit der Kamera,
1844-1920; Wien 1984.
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): p.
o.
TECHNICAL
DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old
style wet plates)
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Cabot, Mabel H.
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 2003
TITLE of ITEM: Vanished
Kingdoms
SUBTITLE: A Woman
Explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia 1921-1925
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Janett Elliott Wulsin and Frederick
Wulsin
PREFACE:
Dr. Rubie Watson,
Director of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Aperture Foundation, New York; 190 pages.
FORMAT of ITEM:
29 cm x 21 cm
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 150+ photographs, quite a number of them in
color.
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA
AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format camera (Graflex with
tripod, as shown on p. 117)
REGIONS
or PROVINCE: Northern China; Mongolia; Tibet; Ningxia;
Qinghai; Gansu; Shanxi;
CITIES: Beijing; Lanzhou;
Baoding;
SCENIC SITES: Labrang - Great
Monastery; Alashan; Ordos desert ("scenic" only to a degree);
OTHER TOPICS
COVERED: Wulsin Expedition; Tibetan cowboys; pasture;
Tibetan tent; Mongolian yurt; Mongol family; trumpeters; opium poppies;
camel caravan; trading post; Lamas;
NOTES:
From Dr. Rubie Watson's
preface to this publication: "The Wulsin Collection, the source of many
of the photographs that appear here, was donated to the Peabody Museum
[at Harvard] in the 1950s. It contains a remarkable archive of over
1,900 photographs, negatives, and lantern slides augmented by written
materials. More than two-thirds of this collection pertains to China
and Southeast Asia. In 1979, an exhibit, China's Inner Asian Frontier:
Photographs of the Wulsin Expedition to Northwest China in 1923, and
a book by the same title [for more on this book see the entry above
under "Alonso"] highlighted a selection of photographs from the
collection. Vanished
Kingdoms is an important addition to this earlier work
and to the published work of Frederick Wulsin himself."
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE
BODY: Cameron, Nigel (ed.)
CO-AUTHOR:
Goodrich, Luther Carrington
YEAR of PUBLICATION: 1978
TITLE
of ITEM: The
Face of China, 1860-1912
SUBTITLE: As Seen
by Photographers & Travelers
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Beato,
Felice; Wilson, E.H.; Thomson, John; Child, Thomas; Rock, Joseph F.;
Baptista, M.A.; Miller, John; White, H.C.; Mennie, Donald; Parsons,
Harry (Reverend); Egerton, Philip H.; Hinton, John Henry; Kilburn,
B.W.;
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: Goodrich, Carrington L.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Millerton; New York ; 159 p.
FORMAT of ITEM: 23,5 x 29 cm; 48 x
19cm and smaller
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
SOURCES: Page 156 lists references where images stem
from.
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): See p. 151-155
PHOTO AGENCY /
OTHER INITIATING AGENCIES: Keystone View Company;
Underwood & Underwood;
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large
format (old style wet plates)
DETAILS about IMAGES: ca. 150 b/w
photographs
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Western China: Sichuan; Northern China:
Hebei, Gansu; Southern China: Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi,
Fujian; Central China: Shanxi, Hubei;
CITIES:
Ningbo, Beijing, Guangzhou, Macao, Wanxian,
SCENIC SITES: Yandangshan;
Pagoda in Ningbo; Pailou; Temple of Confucius in Beijing; Mosque
(Qingzhen si); Yuanmingyuan; Temple island; Shibaozhai; Longmen dong;
Stone buddhas; Gushan-monastery in Fujian; Summer Palace; Pagoda
Island; Shendao (spirit way); Tibetan mountain monastery; Moganshan
(Bambushain); Yangzi Gorges;
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Railroads;
canons; grave sites; Buddhist monks; observatory in Beijing;
Rattan-Factory; Duke of Edinburgh in Hongkong; Rikscha; Hygene
authorities (pest control, exterminator); Steamer U.S.S. Monocacy;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Cao Yu 曹煜
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 2004
TITLE of ITEM:
Qixian Lao Zhaopian
祁县老照片
PREFACE or EPILOGUE: Cao Yu 曹煜
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Shanxi renmin chubanshe; Taiyuan; 250 p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
20 x 24 cm
DETAILS
about IMAGES: ca. 300 b/w photographs
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Shanxi.
CITIES:
Qixian.
NOTES:
Historical photographs giving a general overview of
Qixian, which is a famous Chineses city for its history and culture;
most photographs were taken from the early 1900 to 1949.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Capa, Cornell (ed.)
CO-AUTHOR:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
YEAR of PUBLICATION: 1972
TITLE
of ITEM: Behind
the Great Wall of China
SUBTITLE:
Photographs from 1870 to the Present
PREFACE or EPILOGUE:
Capa, Cornell
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Distributed by the New York Graphic Society; Greenwich,
Con.;
TECHNICAL
DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old
style wet plates) and 35 mm camera;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Carter, J.C.
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: no date
TITLE of ITEM:
Familiar Chinese Faces
SUBTITLE:
A Selection of Figure studies of everyday life from photographs by J.C.
Carter
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Carter, J.C.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
McTavish; Shanghai
FORMAT of ITEM: 28,5 x 22,5 cm;
TECHNICAL DATA
ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old style
wet plates).
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 24 b/w tipped in photographs; Portfolio
OTHER TOPICS
COVERED: Portraits; women; peasants, mender of crockery, street juggler;
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Cartier-Bresson,
Henri
CO-AUTHOR:
Delpire, Robert; Faucheux, Pierre
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1955
TITLE of ITEM: China
SUBTITLE:
Gestern und Heute
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Cartier-Bresson, Henri
PREFACE or EPILOGUE:
same
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Karl Rauch Verl.; Dusseldorf; o.p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
21,4 x 27,4 cm / 37,1 x 25 cm (double pages!) and smaller
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Co-founder of the photographic
agency Magnum.
PHOTO
AGENCY / OTHER INITIATING AGENCIES: Magnum , Paris
TECHNICAL DATA
ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: presumably Leica M, 35 mm
camera
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 144 b/w photographs
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Southern China; Northern China; Jiangsu;
CITIES:
Shanghai; Beijing; Nanjing; Hongkong; Hangzhou;
SCENIC SITES: Imperial
palace; city gates; Yuemiao.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: War;
revolution; liberation; poverty; beggar; rikschas; judicial court;
theatre; people on stilts; Protesting mass; tanks; wedding;
caricatures; parliament in session; blind people; eunuchs; taiji quan;
junks; children; soldiers; elderly people; women; police; money; sport
festival; dragon dance; posters on walls; readers of comics; General
Yan Xishan and General Ma Hongkui.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY:
Castell, Wulf Diether (Graf zu)
YEAR of PUBLICATION: 1938
TITLE
of ITEM: Chinaflug
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Castell, W. D.
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: same (44 pages of preceding text)
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Atlantis Verlag; Berlin, Zurich; 192 p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
8,5 x 25,5
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Extensively treated in
the very readable preface; later acting director of the international
airport of Munich, Germany.
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Leica
(probably a IIIC with a left-traveling shutter curtain); usually
exposed at 1/200 sec.
DETAILS about IMAGES: 128 b/w
pictures
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: Central China; loess plateau; Qinghai;
Jiangsu; Guangdong; Sichuan; Henan; Hebei; Northern China; Hunan;
Shandong; Ningxia; Gansu; Shaanxi; Anhui; Zhejiang; Yunnan
CITIES: Xian;
Luoyang, Urumqi; Guangzhou; Xianyang; Beijing; Nanjing; Shanghai;
Hankow (Hankou); Chengdu; Kunming;
SCENIC SITES: Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum;
Pagodas; Taishan; Emeishan 峨眉山; Tiantan; Beijing city walls; Beihai
Gongyuan; Ditan 地坛; Ming Tombs; West Hills; Huashan; underground loess
houses; street scenes; German Missionary station; Gobi desert; Graves
of Mongols (Mongol nobility); Great Wall; Lama-monasteries; Karst
mountains in Guangxi; Tanhashan; Hengshansi.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Flooding;
Loess-terraces; soil erosion; urban design and planning; boat people;
terraced rice paddies; cave and underground dwellings; rivers; bamboo
rafts; Yangzijiang; Qinling; Jialing-river; Lolo-settlements (Yizu 彝族);
Pamir; Hindukusch; Wakhir-Pass; fortified towns and villages;
irrigation canals; Tibetan Nobility; Caravan of camels. Early civil
aviation in China.
NOTES:
Reprinted in 1999 by Herbig Publ., Munich. This new edition includes
additional photographs of Castell and a new text part.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Catleen, Ellen
CO-AUTHOR:
Friedrich H. Schiff (sketch artist)
YEAR of PUBLICATION: 1934
TITLE of
ITEM: Peking
Studies
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Ellen Catleen (aka Ellen
Thorbecke)
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Kelly and Walsh, Shanghai; 87 pages.
FORMAT of ITEM:
37 cm
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Wife of former minister
of the Netherlands in China. Also published under the name Ellen
Thorbecke. Ellen Katleen (her real name as far as I
can ascertain at the moment) was of Austrian origin and in China as a
reporter for the Neuen Freie Presse, a Viennese
newspaper.
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Rolleiflex
camera
DETAILS
about IMAGES: Ca. 70 b/w and several (very nicely)
hand-colored photographs
REGIONS or PROVINCES: Northern
China: Hebei.
CITIES:
Beijing
SCENIC
SITES: Pailou; Yiheyuan (Summer Palace); Stone buddha;
city gates; porcelain pagoda; Jeweller Pagoda; Jade Fountain; West
Hills; Marble Boat; Kunming lake 昆明湖; Lama temple (Yonghegong 雍和宫) and
monks chanting scriptures; astronomical observatory (as build by
Verbiest).
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED:
Shoemaker; street vendors; curios; musicians and musical instruments;
bridal procession and wedding; Singsong girl; Peking donkey cart;
children; barber; beggar; open-air market (pottery, baskets etc.);
small series of images of theatre school; rickshaws; New Year's cake;
water wheel;
NOTES:
Wonderfully produced book with high-grade photographs of Beijing and
its environment. Much "stock photography", typical scenes, but with a
twist: the accompanying sketches by Schiff add a light and humorous
touch to the visual narrative.
A copy of this book in good
condition is not easy to find these days, and can be quite expensive.
Likewise, Friedrich Schiff's works are even more rare, and a numbered first edition of his famous Maskee - a Shanghai Sketchbook
was recently (as of September 11, 2006) sold on eBay for $1200. Gerd
Kaminski compiled a valuable book on Schiff, published in
Vienna in 2001.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Centre Culturel Français (Beijing)
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 2007
TITLE of ITEM: La
Chine vue par Joseph Skarbek 眼中的中国
SUBTITLE:
Photographies de Joseph Skarbek prises dans la province de Henan, 1906-1909 摄影图片展, 1906-1909 年摄于河南
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: Text by Joanna Wasilewska-Dobkowska
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Joseph
Skarbek (born in 1879) was a railroad engineer who worked in central
China between 1906 and 1909. He left a legacy of over 500 photographs.
The glass negatives are lost, but prints of the originals are still in
the holdings of his son Jean Skarbek in Paris.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Centre Culturel Français, Beijing
/ unpaginated pamphlet
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Joseph Paul Jules Skarbek
FORMAT OF ITEM /
FORMAT OF IMAGES: 12 x 21 cm
TECHNICAL
DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old style wet plates)
DETAILS about
IMAGES: 4 plates.
REGIONS or PROVINCES: Central China. Henan province.
CITIES: Kaifeng 开封; Luoyang 洛阳;
NOTES:
Text of this small but well produced pamphlet in French and Chinese. It
accompanies an exhibition of photographs which for a number of
reasons should be more widely known. One of my reasons for this
statement is that here we have probably the earliest photographic
documentation of some of China's most prominent and
important architectural structures, captured on film (or, rather,
glass), thirty years before Liang Sicheng 梁思成 and his group conducted
their methodic survey of Chinese historical architecture in the
interior. Another interesting aspect of this collection is the visual
recording of customs, crafts and festivals, which again to the best of
my knowledge constitutes the first such record of daily life in Henan
province.
Visit my Zenfolio gallery for a first impression of these photographs.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Chater, Catchick Paul, Sir
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1924
TITLE of ITEM:
The Chater Collection 中國通商圖
SUBTITLE:
Pictures relating to China,
Hongkong, Macao, 1655-1860; with historical and descriptive letterpress
by James Orange.
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): W. Alexander, Chas. Abbot, G. Chinnery, A.
Borget, etc.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Thornton Butterworth Limited; London; 528 p.
DETAILS about IMAGES:
261 illustrations; of which 18 are reproduced in color and 243 in
half-tone plates.
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT AUTHOR(S): Sir Catchick Paul Chater,
Member of the Executive Council of the Colony of Hongkong, was born in
1846; Sir Paul, as he is generally called in the Far East, has been
foremost of all residents of the Colony of Hongkong in originating and
fostering projects for the extension and benefit of the Colony.
NOTES:
A representative collection of
pictures and engravings chiefly on South China and British influences
in Hongkong during 1834-1860; sufficient illustrations giving an
impression of the early days in China.
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED:
Outline maps and pictures of China,
Canton River, Town of Victoria, Hongkong;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY:
Chen Congzhou 陈从周, Zhang Ming 章明
YEAR of PUBLICATION: 1988
(first edition)
TITLE
of ITEM: Shanghai
jindai jianzhu shigao 上海近代建筑史稿
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Shanghai sanlian shudian chuban 上海三联书店出版; Shanghai; 226 p.
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: Chen Congzhou 陈从周
FORMAT of ITEM:
640 x 640 mm or smaller
DETAILS about
IMAGES: 110 b/w pictures
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Shanghai
CITIES:
Shanghai
NOTES:
Historical photographs showing the development of architecture in Old
Shanghai from 1880 onward; The quality of the images is, however, only
documentary, and the quality of the reproductions themselves in the
book is somewhat less than satisfying.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: The historic scenery of the Waitan in 1880;
Nanjing Lu in 1911; the architecture and landscaping of the Hui Feng
Bank and the Jin Men Hotel, etc.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY:
Chen He 陈和
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1998
TITLE of ITEM:
Shanghai in Old Days - Lao
Shanghai 老上海
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Shanghai
jiaoyu chubanshe; Shanghai; 478 p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
30 cm
DETAILS about IMAGES:
over 1000 b/w pictures.
REGIONS or PROVINCES: Shanghai
CITIES:
Shanghai
NOTES:
Historical photographs showing the development of the architecture in
old Shanghai from 1880 onward; the images in this album are well
reproduced;
OTHER
TOPICS COVERED: Old Town (Chinese
town), Shiliupu, Yangjingbang Creek; the major foreign and Chinese
banks on Jiangxi Road; the Bund; architecture and landscaping of
Nanjing Road, Fuzhou Road and the region around Jing'an Temple; Pudong;
Zhabei; Suzhou River 苏州河.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Chen
Shouxiang 陈纭祥
CO-AUTHOR:
Fang Lin 芳霖, Bei Ning 构宁
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1998
TITLE of ITEM:
Jiu meng chong jing 旧梦重惊
SUBTITLE:
Fang Lin, Bei Ning cang Qingdai mingxin pian xuanji, vol. 1 - 〗霖
构宁藏清代明信片选集 (I)
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: Chen Shouxiang 陈纭祥
PUBLISHER / PLACE / PAGES:
Guangxi meishu chubanshe 广西美术出版社 / ISBN 7-80625-552-4
FORMAT of ITEM:
25 x 25 cm
DETAILS
about IMAGES: Several hundred b/w and color
reproductions of late Qing postcards.
CITIES:
Beijing, Shanghai; Hankou, Guangzhou, Yongping, Kunshan, Tianjin,
Chinatown (San Francisco), Xiamen, Yichang, Hong Kong;
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Chen Yuanjian 陳遠見, You Zenghui
尤增輝
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1980
TITLE of ITEM:
Lugang sanbai nian, 鹿港三百年
SUBTITLE:
Xiangtu xilie 4, 鄉土系列4
PUBLISHER
/ PLACE / PAGES: Hu wai shenghuo zazhi she 戶外生活雜誌社; Taibei
CITIES:
Lugang.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY:
Chen Zhengqing 陈正卿 (ed.)
YEAR of PUBLICATION: 2005
(August)
TITLE
of ITEM: Chenfeng de lao zhaopian 尘风的老照片
SUBTITLE:
70 nian qian waiguoren jingtou zhong de Zhongguo 70年前外国人镜头中的中国
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Sichuan chuban jituan 四川出版集团, Sichuan meishu chubanshe
四川美术出版; Chengdu; 272 p. ISBN 7541026239.
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: anonymous; very general introduction into
the affairs of foreigners in China in the late Qing, early Republican
period.
FORMAT
of ITEM: 17 x 23 cm
DETAILS about
IMAGES: 427 mostly smallish b/w pictures, reproduced on
rough and cheap paper, resulting in high grain and low levels of
sharpness of the images.
REGIONS or PROVINCES: Jiangsu,
Guangdong, Shandong, Hebei, Yunnan, Hubei, Xizang (Tibet), etc.
CITIES:
Shanghai, Tianjin, Beijing, Qingdao, Wuhan, Guangzhou (Canton),
Nanjing, etc.
NOTES:
Photographs cover a wide variety of subjects, including architecture in
the various concessions; religious life (such as an elderly Chinese
gentleman reading a bible); certain technologies (such as the earliest
coal mine in Tibet using large wooden wheels); minorities; popular and
infamous personalities (such as Feng Yuxiang or Li Yuanhong), ships and
various other types of river crafts; hospitals, schools, churches and
other types of public buildings; street scenes, etc.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Cheng Po Hung - 鄭寶鴻
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1997
TITLE of ITEM:
Hong Kong Through Postcards
- 香港明信片精選 1940's - 1970's
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co., Ltd.; Hong Kong; 135 p.
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: Introduction: The Development of Hong Kong
Postcards - 香港明信片的發展 (代序) by David P.M.Toong - 佟寶銘
FORMAT of ITEM:
242 x 242 mm
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
ABOUT AUTHOR(S): Cheng Po Hung is a manager of a gold and
silver company and a dealer in stamps and coins. He is an advanced
collector of postcards, coins, stamps and historical documents. His
publications include "Pictorial Hong Kong Currency" (Joint Publishing
Co., 1996) and "Pictorial Hong Kong Stamps" (Joint Publishing Co.,
forthcoming). At present he is the honorary adviser of the Hong Kong
Museum of History, the honorary secretary of the Hong Kong Collectors
Society and the Hong Kong Numismatic Society, a committee member of the
Hong Kong Stamp and Coin Dealers Association.
DETAILS about IMAGES:
200 pictures; some b/w pictures and some colored pictures.
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Hong Kong
CITIES:
Hong Kong
NOTES:
Well reproduced pictures of Hong Kong postcards through 1940's -
1970's; Hong Kong postcards during the 1940's (The Japanese Occupation
and Post-war Recovery Period), the 1950's (The Founding Period), the
1960's - 1970's (The Take-off Period); Five Categories of postcards
including the monochrome lithographic postcard, hand-coloured
postcards, mechanically-printed colour postcards, photographic picture
postcards, hand-coloured photographic picture postcards.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: Early
printed colour postcard view of Victoria Harbour; postcard of Central
District; street scenes of Queen's Road Central; Shanghai street,
Kowloon, near Ningpo Street in the mid-50's; typical New territories
paddy fields in the 1950's; an aerial view of Tsimshatsui in 1970's;
the Central banking district in 1960's.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Child,
Thomas (alternative spelling: Thomas Childe)
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1871-1889
TITLE of ITEM:
Views of Peking and its
Vicinity
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Child, Thomas
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Unclear if ever published in regular book form.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
SOURCES: Worswick/Spence p. 150;
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS
ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Child was a civil engineer in
Beijing, in charge (among other things) of providing gas-powered street
lighting to the city and its more noted residents.
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA
AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old style wet plates)
DETAILS about
IMAGES: 92 b/w photographs;
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China: Hebei.
CITIES: Beijing.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: China.
National Health Administration
YEAR of PUBLICATION: 1931
TITLE
of ITEM: Album
of Photographs illustrating the work of the National Health
Administration, Nanking, China
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
unknown
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Nanking (Nanjing), National Health Administration; 37 p.
FORMAT OF ITEM:
29 x 39 cm.
NOTES:
I
have not seen this album. It is held in the Yale University Library.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Christie's (auction house)
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1994
TITLE of ITEM:
The Lau Collection of 19th
Century Chinese and Japanese Photographs
SUBTITLE:
London, Wednesday, 19 October 1994 (auction held)
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Afong Lai (Ah Fang), Felice Beato, Saunders, Miller, Rusfeldt, Thomas
Child, G. W. Pach, Stillfried, Kusakabe Kimbei, Ogawa, James Ricalton,
John Thomson et al.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Christie's,
London; ca. 41 p.
TECHNICAL
DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: Large format (old
style wet plates)
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 65 b/w photograph and color reproductions
of early photographs
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Clark, Douglas
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1978 (?)
TITLE of ITEM: The John Henry Hinton Photographs
SUBTITLE: China 1894-1918
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): John Henry Hinton
PUBLISHER / PLACE / PAGES:
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, CA; 7 p.
FORMAT of ITEM: Ca 20 x 27cm.
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Hinton
was a piano tuner who went to work for a Shanghai piano manufacturer.
During his time there he travelled with a Chinese tutor utilising his
recently acquired expertise in photography to record his new
environment.
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 21 sepia toned photographs
REGIONS
or PROVINCES: n/a
CITIES:
n/a
NOTES:
I
have not had a chance to see this publication. It was released in
conjunction with an exhibit of Hinton's photographs at the Edmonton Art
Gallery in 1978 (to be precise: May 17, 1978 to July 3, 1978).
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Claudel, Paul
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 1946
TITLE of ITEM:
Chine
PHOTOGRAPHER(S):
Hoppenot, Hélene
PREFACE or EPILOGUE: Claudel, Paul
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Éditions
D`Art Albert Skira
FORMAT of ITEM:27 x 35 cm (French bindung) - 23,5 x 24,5 cm
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: probably
medium format (Rolleiflex)
DETAILS about IMAGES: 80 b/w
photographs (héliogravure)
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Northern China; Yunnan, Henan, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, Zhejiang,
CITIES:
Beijing (Peking), Nanjing, Jehol (Chengde), Macao;
SCENIC SITES: Yungang
Grottoes; Longmen Grottoes; Ming Tombs (Nanjing); Great Wall; Liuli
Chang; Tiantan; Stupas; Taishan; Song-dynasty tombs; Summer Palace;
city walls; funerary statues, Pagoda.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED:
Flowers and plants, street life, birds, bridges, merchants, puppets.
NOTES: Extremely
interesting, well executed and well produced photographs; somewhat
"steely" tinge to them, no doubt owing to the precision and the optical
definition of the lenses used. Many winter shots dismantle Beijing and
demonstrate the intricate structures of its buildings.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Commercial Press
(Shangwu yinshuguan)
YEAR of PUBLICATION: 1920s
TITLE
of ITEM: Scenic
China
SUBTITLE:
Series VI: T'ai Shan, Shantung; Series XVIII: Wu I Shan, Fukien
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Commercial Press/Shanghai
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES: Part
of a whole series of photographic documentation of most of China,
published by the Shangwu yinshuguan (Commercial Press).
Photographic Studio or
other Agency: Commercial Press
DETAILS about IMAGES:
Serie VI: 31 b/w; Serie XVIII: 28 b/w
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Shandong; Fujian
SCENIC SITES: Wuyishan 武夷山;
Taishan 泰山
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Commercial Press
(Shangwu yinshuguan)
YEAR of PUBLICATION: ca.1912
TITLE
of ITEM: Views of
China 中国名胜
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Commercial Press/Shanghai
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES: Photographic documentation of the (then considered) most important sites and views of China.
Photographic Studio or
other Agency: Commercial Press
FORMAT of ITEM:
24 x 18 cm
DETAILS about IMAGES: 182 b/w
REGIONS or PROVINCES:
Guangdong; Shandong; Fujian; Zhejiang, Sichuan; Liaoning;
SCENIC SITES: Public Park, Shenyang (Mukden); Ming Tombs (Nanjing); Wuyishan 武夷山;
Taishan 泰山; Lianchi Academy (Baoding); Hanshansi 寒山寺 (Suzhou)
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Compilation Committee /
Pictorial History of the Founding and Reconstruction of the Republic of
China
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1981
TITLE of ITEM:
A Pictorial History of the
Republic of China
SUBTITLE: Its
founding and development
PREFACE or EPILOGUE: Jin Xiaoyi
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
China Art Printing Works/Taibei/515, 575 p. in 2 vols.
FORMAT of ITEM: 24 x 17 cm
DETAILS about IMAGES: More than
1000 b/w photographs
REGIONS or PROVINCES: Southern
China/Norchina/Central China
CITIES: Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin,
Mukden, Port Arthur, Nanjing, Ulan Bator, Lhasa, Qingdao, Laizhou,
Cheefoo, Jiujiang, Hankou, Hanyang, Wuchang, Chengdu.
OTHER TOPICS COVERED: War,
history of the Communist party, battles fought at sea (naval).
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Cornet, Christine, &
Verdier, Francois
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 2004
TITLE of ITEM:
Paysans de l'Eau: Chine 1932
SUBTITLE: Photographies du
Père Joseph de Reviers de Mauny
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): (Jesuit
priest) Père
Joseph de Reviers de Mauny
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: Christine
Cornet
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Arles, Actes
Sud, 244 p. ISBN 2742746730
FORMAT
of ITEM: 23 x 26 cm
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENTS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHER(S): For a brief description
of Père Joseph's work and agenda see here
(in French).
TECHNICAL DATA ABOUT CAMERA AND FILM MATERIAL: n/a
DETAILS
about IMAGES: Ca. 150 b/w pictures.
NOTES: The
publication draws from about 4000 photographs in the possession of the
Jesuit Archives in Lyon (Oeuvres Pontificales Missionnaires
à
Lyon). A number of exhibits
were launched in China in 2005 to make these long-forgotten images more
widely know.
I am grateful to Peter van de Kamp for bringing
this work to my attention.
AUTHOR,
EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Cornet, Christine
YEAR of
PUBLICATION: 2001
TITLE of ITEM: Shanghai 1849-1946
SUBTITLE: La Concession Francaise: Chronique Photographique
PREFACE
or EPILOGUE: Christine
Cornet
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES: Saint Paul de Varax: Éditions Scheibli; 127 p. ISBN
2-9114667-03-5.
NOTES: "Ce livre qui se présente comme une chronique photographique, retrace
l'histoire de la présence française à Shanghai depuis 1849, date de la
fondation de la Concession française de Shanghai jusqu'en 1948, date du
rapatriement des français."
NOTES: This volume does not seem to exist in American libraries. ILL was unsuccessful.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Crow,
Dennis G.
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1998
TITLE of ITEM:
The Chinese: A Catalog of
Historic Photographs of China
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Dennis G. Crow, Ltd. / Los Angeles / 33 p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
8 x 11"
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 75 b/w photographs
NOTES: Exhibition catalog.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Crow,
Dennis G.
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1998
TITLE of ITEM:
Historic Photographs of Hong Kong, Canton & Macao
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Dennis G. Crow, Ltd. / Los Angeles / 108 p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
8 x 11"
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 138 b/w photographs
NOTES: Catalogue of an exhibition and sale held at the Museum Annex in Hong Kong in June of 1998.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Crow,
Dennis G.
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 1999
TITLE of ITEM:
Historic Photographs of Shanghai, Hong Kong & Macao
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Dennis G. Crow, Ltd. / Los Angeles / ~80 p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
8 x 11"
DETAILS
about IMAGES: ~100 b/w photographs
NOTES: Catalogue of an exhibition and sale held at the Museum Annex in Hong Kong in April 1999.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Crow,
Dennis G.
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 2000
TITLE of ITEM:
Historic Photographs of Hong Kong
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Dennis G. Crow, Ltd. / Los Angeles / 79 p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
8 x 11"
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 139 b/w photographs
NOTES: Catalogue of an exhibition and sale held at the China Club in Hong Kong in June of 2000.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or CORPORATE BODY: Crow,
Dennis G.
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: 2004
TITLE of ITEM:
Historic Photographs of Hong Kong & China 1860 to 1960
SUBTITLE: Featuring photographs by Afong, E.O. Hoppe, Daisy Wu & others.
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Dennis G. Crow, Ltd. / Los Angeles / 67 p.
FORMAT of ITEM:
8 x 11"
DETAILS
about IMAGES: 106 b/w photographs
NOTES: Catalogue of an exhibition and sale held in Hong Kong April 20 to 25, 2004.
AUTHOR, EDITOR or
CORPORATE BODY: Dao
Shuming 道書明
YEAR
of PUBLICATION: First edition 1994, second edition 1996
TITLE
of ITEM: A
Tour of Shanghai's Historical Architecture - Shanghai li shi jian zhu
you 上海歷史建築游
PHOTOGRAPHER(S): Da Xiangqun, Dong Zhilin, Chen
Dongcheng, Zhang Ligang, Xie Xinfa, Yang Zhongjian, Li Zhicheng
PUBLISHER/PLACE/PAGES:
Henan Fine Arts Publishing House; Henan; 86 p.
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