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Shanghai City Wall and Gates
Katya Knyazeva, from Novosibirsk, Russia, is a historian and a journalist whose work focuses on urban form, heritage preservation and the Russian diaspora in Shanghai. She is the author of the two-volume history and photographic atlas Shanghai Old Town – … Continue reading
Gregory Scott on Chinese Religious Spaces in the Historical Photographs of China collections
Dr Gregory Adam Scott is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and from September 2017 will take up the post of Lecturer in Chinese Cultural History at the University of Manchester. For the most part, … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Guest blogs
Tagged Beijing, Hangzhou, monastery, monk, pagoda, temple
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Chinese bells for the Olympics
This photograph, with its somewhat clumsy composition, was snapped inside an unidentified temple. It is really more about the two splendid, wooden idols of unidentified gods, than about the bell. These impressive and expressive statues were very colourfully painted, something … Continue reading
A photographer’s view
The great photographer Diane Arbus once observed that ‘a photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.’ NA07-107 is the very picture of such secretive photography, if only because it is such … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day
Tagged Arbus, Archives, bell, Berger, Confucious, double, exposure, Faurer, gong, Kongzi, Moholy-Nagy, National, percussion, photography, Qufu, Shandong, temple, TNA
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