Brush & shutter
Subtitle: early photography in China
By: edited by Jeffrey W. Cody and Frances Terpak
Contributors: J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781606060544
Subjects: China; Photography; Artistic Photography; Exhibitions; History
Other titles: Brush and shutter
Description: Uncovered here is a captivating visual history of China during photography's first century. Chinese export painters learned and adapted the medium of photography by grafting the new technology onto traditional artistic conventions - employing both brush and shutter. The essays in this volume shed light on the birth of a medium.
Notes: Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 Feb.-1 May 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reading early photographs of China / Wu Hung; title: The history of the camera obscura and early photography in China / Edwin K. Lai; title: Through a foreign glass : the art and science of photography in late Qing China / Jeffrey W. Cody and Frances Terpak; title: Inventing a "Chinese" portrait style in early photography : the case of Milton Miller / Wu Hung; title: Chinese as subject : photographic genres in the nineteenth century / Sarah E. Fraser; title: Beyond the frame : the camera in Republican Shanghai and wartime Chongqing / Wen-hsin Yeh.