A lensman's Chinese odyssey
By Wu Liping | China Daily | Updated: 2009-05-02 07:15
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Visitors enjoy the late Qing Dynasty scenes recorded by Scottish photographer John Thomson. In the portrait of a Cantonese official, the photographer employed chiaroscuro technique which was against the rules of portrait photograph at that time. Jiang Dong |
A triptych of photographic portraits unveils a Manchu family scene in Beijing, in 1871, which few outsiders would have seen. In front of an ordinary house, a Manchu woman in her 40s appears with her daughter-in-law and three grandchildren in one frame, and with her daughter-in-law in two others.
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