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Category Archives: Visualisation
Charles Frederick Moore’s photographs of the ruins of the European-style palaces (西洋楼) at the Yuanmingyuan (圆明园)
Jamie Carstairs (Senior Digitisation Officer, Special Collections, University of Bristol Library) is researching the work of Charles Frederick Moore (1838-1916), and here discusses Moore’s photographs of the ruins of the European-style, baroque palaces at the Yuanmingyuan. When the vast and … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Heritage, History of photography in China, Photographers, Visualisation
Tagged Charles Frederick Moore, Ernst Ohlmer, Heritage, history of photography, Old Summer Palace, photography, Thomas Child, Yuanmingyuan
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Black and white Hong Kong transformed by ‘OldHKinColour’
The Instagram page OldHKinColour features vintage images of Hong Kong which have been colourised, or colourised and animated, with a view to promoting public education. HPC invited the team running the project, which has used some of our images, to … Continue reading
Posted in Guest blogs, Uncategorized, Visualisation
Tagged colour, Harrison Forman, Heritage, Hong Kong, Instagram, John Thomson
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The Chinese Photobook Exhibition
The Historical Photographs of China team recently visited “The Chinese Photobook’’ exhibition at the Photographers Gallery, London. Digitization Assistant, Alejandro Acin reports: The exhibition is based on a collection of photography books, compiled by Bristol-based photographer Martin Parr and the Dutch … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, History of photography in China, Photographers, Visualisation
Tagged china, exhibition, history, Martin Parr, photobook, photographers, WassinkLundgren
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Best seasonal wishes from the HPC team
It’s been another very busy year at the Historical Photographs of China (HPC) project. Here’s news of some of our achievements. The Chinese Year of the Horse kicked off with a new exhibition at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Exhibition, Visualisation
Tagged 2015, ambassador, Birmingham, BRLSI, DVD, exhibition, film, Guangzhou, Hart, IMCS, Shanghai, Update, Wuhan
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Darwent Revisited: Shanghai now and then
Photography is the context, subtext and pretext for an exhibition that opens today. The exhibition includes new photographs by Jamie Carstairs inspired by the text of Shanghai: A Handbook for Travellers and Residents, a guidebook to the city by Revd. … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, Photographers, Visualisation
Tagged Darwent, exhibition, photography, Shanghai
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Revisiting Darwent's Shanghai
Our pop-up exhibition, ‘Darwent Revisited: Shanghai now and then’, is unveiled on Saturday 9th February, at the Bristol City Museum, and then on Sunday 10th February at the city’s new M-Shed museum. Funded by the AHRC and the British Academy, It … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibition, Photographers, Visualisation
Tagged Bristol, Carstairs, Chinese, Darwent, exhibition, New, photograph, photography, Revisited, Year
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Metropole Hotel, Shanghai, 1930 上海新城饭店老照片
This photograph (BS-s11) of the Metropole Hotel under construction, is from the British Steel Archive Project, in Teesside, from whence came the girders for the building’s steel frame. The Metropole was designed by Palmer and Turner, and was built on … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Visualisation
Tagged advert, advertising, architecture, bamboo, billboard, BSAP, building, car, Chrysler, construction, crane, Goodyear, policeman, poster, rickshaw, Sikh, steel, tire, tram, tyre, vehicle
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You press the button, we do the rest
Here then is ‘the rest’: at this Kodak Professional School in Shanghai in 1923, students are learning to spool and process negatives, enlarge, develop, fix and dry prints, then guillotine and dry mount them – the skilful practical application of … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day, Visualisation
Tagged advert, advertising, business, chemical, chemistry, Crellin, darkroom, developer, dryer, education, enlarger, guillotine, Kodak, laboratory, negatives, photograph, photographs, photography, print, safelight, scales, snap, snaps, studio, timer, training
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Visualising China Demo at JISC Conference 2010
Earlier this month Simon Price and Nikki Rogers attended the JISC Conference 2010 in London. Nikki, the Visualising China project manager, was an invited panel member on a discussion session about maximising creativity of software developers and lessons learnt from … Continue reading
Posted in Image Annotation, Social Software and Web 2.0, Visualisation
Tagged #jiscec, jisc10
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