Portraiture and early studio photography in China and Japan

Author(s)

• Gartlan, Luke
• Wue, Roberta

Bibliographic Information

Portraiture and early studio photography in China and Japan

edited by Luke Gartlan and Roberta Wue

（An Ashgate book）

Routledge, 2019

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-242) and index

"Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters": p. [218]-223

"First issued in paperback 2019"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume explores the early history of the photographic studio and portrait in China and Japan. The institution of the photographic studio has received relatively little attention in the history of photography; contributors here investigate various manifestations of the studio as a place and as a space that was cultural, economic, and creative. Its authors also look closely at the studio portrait not as images alone, but also as collaborative ventures between studio operators and sitters, opportunities to invent new roles, images that merged the new medium with "traditional" visual practices, as well as the portrait's part in devising modern, gendered, nationalistic, and public identities for its subjects. As the first collection of its kind, Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan analyzes the photographic likeness-its producers, subjects, viewers, and pictorial forms-and argues for the historical significance of the photographic studio as a specific and new space central to the formation of new identities and communities. Photography's identity as a transnational technology is thus explored through the local uses, adaptations, and assimilations of the imported medium, presenting modern images of their subjects in specific Japanese and Chinese contexts.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Luke Gartlan and Roberta Wue Part I Studios and Photographers 2 Shimizu Tokoku and the Japanese Carte de Visite: Circumscriptions of Yokohama Photography Luke Gartlan 3 Group Encounters: Milton M. Miller's Hong Kong and Canton Photographs Roberta Wue 4 Powkee and the Era of Large Studios Yi Gu Part II Sitters and Domestic Markets 5 Guiding the Sitter: Matsuzaki Shinji's Dos and Don'ts for the Photographic Customer Sebastian Dobson 6 Chinese Ideas of Likeness: Painting, Photography, and Intermediality Claire Roberts 7 Inscribed Photographic Portraits: Commemoration and Self-Fashioning in Republican-Period China Richard K. Kent 8 One, and the Same: The Double in Photographic Portraiture from Republican China H. Tiffany Lee Part III Citizens and Subjects 9 The Fluidity of Representation: Early Photographs, Asakusa, and Kabuki Maki Fukuoka 10 From Private to Public: Shifting Conceptions of Women's Portrait Photography in Late Meiji Japan Karen M. Fraser 11 The Republican Lady, the Courtesan, and the Photograph: Visibility and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century China Joan Judge Appendix Matsuzaki Shinji's Dos and Don'ts for the Photographic Customer Translated by Sebastian Dobson Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BC06028725
• ISBN:
  • 9780367331122
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Abingdon
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 252 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 779.20951
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Portrait photography -- China -- History
  • LCSH : Portrait photography -- Japan -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB22793620