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• Title:Zooming in : histories of photography in China / Wu Hung.
  
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• Author/Creator:Wu Hung, 1945- author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Reaktion Books, 2016.
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: TR101 .W8 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 06-17-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Photography--China--History.
  Photography--Social aspects--China--History.
  
• Description:398 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"From the first sets of photographic records made by Western travellers to the emergence of 'Chinese photography' imbued with national anxiety and individual desire, and from doctored portraits of Chairman Mao to 'experimental' representations of urban transformation and avant-garde performances of the post-Cultural Revolution era, the development of photography in China has followed divergent paths through changing sociopolitical contexts, producing images with different agendas, technological innovations and artistic pursuits. Zooming In explores multiple histories of photographic production in China. At its centre lies a large question: how has photography represented China and its people, collective history and memory, individual subjectivity and creativity? To address this multifaceted question, Wu Hung offers an in-depth study of selected photographers, themes and movements of photography in China from 1860 to the present, covering a wide range of topics from portraiture to photojournalism, architectural and landscape photography, photo-publications and conceptual photography."--from the publisher
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-385) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781780235998
  1780235992
  
• Contents:Inventing a "Chinese" portrait style in early photography : the case of Milton Miller
  Photography's subjugation of China : a "magnificent collection" of Second Opium War images
  Birth of the self and the nation : cutting the queue
  Self as art : Jin Shisheng and his interior space
  Searching for immortal mountains : the origins and aesthetics
  A Second history : an archive of manipulated photographs
  The "old photo craze" and contemporary Chinese art
  Mo Yi : the story of an urban ethnographer
  Liu Zheng : My countrymen
  Rong Rong : ruins as autobiography
  Miao Xiaochun : journeying through space and time.