Photography in China (in Chinese 攝影 shè yǐng, literally ‘capturing images’, although other appellations exist) dates back to the mid-19th century with...
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Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically...
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well as the past, present, and future of photography in China. Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection...
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Tank Man (redirect from Chinese man in front of tanks)
unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks leaving Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989. On the...
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Lai Afong (category Pioneers of photography)
Stephan Loewentheil China Photography Collection, one of the world's foremost collections of Early Chinese Photography. Although in-person viewing was...
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Taiwanese photography is deeply rooted in the country's unique and rapidly changing history. Its early photography is often divided into two periods: Pre-Japanese...
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (category Photography in China)
master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive...
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Candid photography is photography captured without creating a posed appearance. This style is also called street photography, spontaneous photography or snap...
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Bloody Saturday (photograph) (redirect from Motherless Chinese Baby)
attack struck civilians during the Battle of Shanghai in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai...
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Nude photography is the creation of any photograph which contains an image of a nude or semi-nude person, or an image suggestive of nudity. Nude photography...
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Inge Morath (category Photography in China)
Foundation, Paris, France. 2004 Inge Morath: Chinese Encounters, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China. 2004 Inge Morath: The Road to Reno...
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Glamour photography is a genre of photography in which the subjects are portrayed in attractive poses ranging from fully clothed to nude, and often erotic...
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Eve Arnold (category Photography in China)
abandon medicine to study photography. She married Arnold Schmitz (later Arnold Arnold) in 1941. Her interest in photography began in 1946 while working for...
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Felice Beato (category Photography in China)
photographs. Bennett, Photography in Japan, p. 86. Clark, Fraser, and Osman, passim. Bennett, History of Photography in China, 1842–1860, p. 241. Dobson...
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Erotic photography is a style of art photography of an erotic, sexually suggestive or sexually provocative nature. It is a type of erotic art. In a spectrum...
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Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. It is named after Soviet...
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photography is photography that uses media capable of capturing and reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white or gray-monochrome photography records...
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Nature photography is a wide range of photography taken outdoors and devoted to displaying natural elements such as landscapes, wildlife, plants, and close-ups...
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John Thomson (photographer) (category Photography in China)
James Mackay Bryson. During this time, Thomson learned the principles of photography and completed his apprenticeship around 1858. During this time he also...
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Marc Riboud (category Photography in China)
Three Banners of China, Face of North Vietnam, Visions of China, and In China. Riboud was born in Saint-Genis-Laval and went to the lycée in Lyon. He photographed...
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Juan Mencarini Pierotti (category Spanish expatriates in China)
Xavier, Kritika Kultura, issue 30. "Juan Mencarini and Amateur Photography in Fin-de-siècle China".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)...
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Robert Capa (category Photography in China)
Concerned Photography in 1966. To give this collection a permanent home, he founded the International Center of Photography in New York City in 1974. This...
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Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (Chinese: 三影堂摄影艺术中心), is a non-profit art centre in Beijing established in 2007 by photographers RongRong and inri...
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photographs are protected in different jurisdictions by the laws governing copyright and moral rights. In some cases photography may be restricted by civil...
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Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or inquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and...
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The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery...
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Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production...
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Michael Wolf (photographer) (category Photography in China)
for today. Wolf began non-editorial photography with a series entitled Bastard Chairs, small chairs that Chinese people would repair repeatedly using...
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Travel photography is a genre of photography that may involve the documentation of an area's landscape, people, cultures, customs, and history. The Photographic...
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Natural light portraiture Portrait photography, or portraiture, is a type of photography aimed toward capturing the personality of a person or group of...
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