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Dragon boats … in Bristol
If you are in our local neighbourhood, you can catch dragon boat racing in the Floating Harbour, Bristol on Sunday 14th September. The first race in this annual festival starts at 10.30am and the last race is on at about … Continue reading
Typologies, memories and preservation
There are few photographers with a body of work as obsessively cohesive as that of the German collaborative artists Bern and Hilla Becher. The duo, Bernhard “Bernd” Becher (1931 – 2007) and Hilla Becher (born 1934), are best known for … Continue reading
Posted in History of photography in China, Photographers
Tagged Banister, Becher, Chinese, coastwise, customs, Lighthouses, lights, Maritime, memory, photography, preservation, Service, typologies
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Model Prison, Kweilin Fu, c.1900
The caption in Bishop Banister’s photograph album for this photograph (Ba03-20) is: Model Prison. Kweilin Fu, Kwangsi. The prison is in the panopticon style, first designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham. The photograph dates from around … Continue reading
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged architecture, Banister, crime, Guilin, incarceration, justice, karst, panopticon, punishment, topology
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