BEERS, B.F., China in Old Photographs 1860-1910, New York 1978. Hardcover, 21 x 28 cm. 160 pag. met ruim 160 foto's. Gebruikt exemplaar met stofomslag in redelijke conditie. Used copy, dust cover some tear and wear,   book content good.

"This extraordinary collection of antique photographs provides a rare view of life in nineteenth-century China and a unique and revealing portrayal of Chinese culture.All of the photographs in this book come from the collection of the Museum of the American China Trade in Milton, Massachusetts."

BETTY JAO, China through the lens of John Thomson (1868-1872), Bangkok 2009. Hard cover 31 x 31 cm. 168 pag. with 157 illustrations. Text in English and Chinese.

CONTENT:

John Thomson was born June 14th 1837, in Edinburgh, Scotland. After his schooling in the early 1850s he completed his photographic apprenticeship around 1858.

Thomson first travelled to Asia in 1862 where he set up a professional photographic studio. The local culture and the people of Asia fascinated him, and in 1868 he made his second trip, this time settling in Hong Kong. Between 1868 and 1872, Thomson made extensive trips to Guangdong, Fujian, Beijing, China's northeast and down the Yangtse River, covering nearly 5000 miles. This catalogue is drawn from his time in these regions. These were the early days of photography when negatives were made on glass plates that had to be coated with emulsion before the exposure was made. A huge amount of cumbersome equipment had to be carried from place to place and with perseverance, great energy and stamina, Thomson managed to take a wide variety of images and themes, including landscapes, people, and architecture, domestic and street scenes. As a foreigner, his ability to gain access to photograph women is also remarkable. In China, Thomson excelled as a photographer in quality, depth and breadth, and in artistic sensibility. Thomson is the author of several books including:

In 1881 he was appointed photographer to the British Royal Family by Queen Victoria. After retiring from his commercial studio in 1910, Thomson spent most of his time back in Edinburgh. In October 1921, Thomson died of a heart attack.

AlLONSO, M.E.ed. China's inner frontier Photographs of the Wulsin Expedition to Northwest China in 1923. Cambridge, 1979. Softcover, 23x23 cm.108 pp. 100 afb. Gebruikt exemplaar in goede conditie. Used, some slight wear, good copy.

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Catalogue of an exhibition at the Peabody Museum showing interesting photographs taken by Frederick Roelker Wulsin during his travels in China and Tibet.

Inspired by the travels of Roy Chapman Andrews, the Wulsins resolved to travel the world. From 1921 to 1925, the couple mounted expeditions to the far reaches of China, Tibet, and Outer Mongolia to study the people, flora, and fauna of the region. With a grant from the National Geographic Society, they took 28 camels, six horses, four Mongolian camel drivers and 10 Chinese "specimen collectors." Together, the Wulsins collected 1,400 botanical and zoological specimens and documented Buddhist rituals. They also took hundreds of photographs, documented tribes people and desert landscapes, and were even allowed to photograph the interior of several of the great Tibetan Buddhist lamaseries, one of few early Westerners allowed to do so.

(see also: Vanished Kingdoms. A woman explorer in Tibet, China & Mongolia 1921-1925 // A-Tibet-007)

BEAUSOLEIL,J.(ed.), CHINE 1909-1934:  CATALOGUE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILM SEQUENCES FROM THE MUSEE ALBERT-KAHN. Trilingual publication in French, English and Chinese.”

Volume 1: Albert Kahn's Chinese Guests. The Identified Sites (Except Beijing), Boulogne-Billancourt, 2001. Hardcover, 30 x 27 cm. 404 pag. met 401 foto's in kleur en 524 in zwart-wit.

Volume 2, Boulogne-Billancourt, 2002. Hardcover, 30 x 27 cm. 443 pag. met 1154 foto's de meeste in zwart-wit.

BEATON,C., Chinese Diary & Album, Hong Kong & Oxford 1991. Hardcover 19,5 x 25,5 cm. 169pag.met ca. 100 zwart-wit foto's.

HK Museum of History, City of Victoria. A selection of the Museum's historical photographs, Hongkong 1994. Softcover, 24 x 24 cm. 107 pag. met ca. 100 zwart-wit foto's. 

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GHESQUIERE, J. & FRIS LARROUY,V.,  De la mer de Chine au Tonkin, photographies 1886-1904, Paris, 1996. Exhibition catalogue (language: French, Chinese subtitles), Toulouse 1996. Hardcover, 25 x 29 cm. 168 pages with ca. 135 photo's.

"Haut fonctionnaire et diplomate, Auguste François a parcouru la Chine du Sud de 1886 à 1904 au service de l'administration coloniale française. Pour mieux comprendre ce pays, il a pris des milliers de clichés qui nous donnent une image de la Chine, entre splendeur et décadence, en butte aux ambitions des puissances étrangères qui se disputaient alors le pays.Ethnographie, religion, théâtre, pouvoir des mandarins, économie, géographie..., l'importance de son travail, conservé au musée Guimet, et les commentaires qui l'accompagnent offrent une étude approfondie des multiples facettes de la Chine, jusqu'au début du siècle."

See also: YANN LE MOUËL, Photographies, Parijs 2008. Soft cover 21 x 27 cm. 62 pag. Auction catalogue March 19th, 2008, 278 lots on old Asia photography, mainly old Chinese photography.

See also: SVARTZMAN,G. & LIABOEUF,D., L'oeil du Consul, Auguste Francois en Chine (1896-1904), Parijs 1989. Hardcover, 24 x 28 cm. 192 pag. met 180 foto's.

WHEELER SNOW, L, Edgar Snow's China  A personal account of the Chinese Revolution compiled from the writings of Edgar Snow, New York 1981. Hardcover, 22 x 28 cm. 280 pag. met 450 zwart-wit foto's. Gebruikt exemplaar, stofomslag vertoont gebruikssporen. Used copy, dust jacket lightly touched.

De DEUS RAMOS, J., Extremos Orientes 1877 / The Far East 1877, Lissabon 2002. Hard cover 21,5 x 29,5 cm[oblong], 82 pag. with 59 full page photo’s of China[42], Taiwan[5] and Japan[12]. Three maps that show where the photographs have been taken. Text in Portuguese and English. The photo collection of Francisco Gil Borje e Meneses.

LACOSTE, A., FELICE BEATO A Photographer of the Eastern Road, Los Angeles 2010. Hard cover 27 x 29 cm. 202 pag. with 120 full page photo's.

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In recent years Felice Beato (1832-1909) has come to be recognized as one of the major photographers of the nineteenth century, yet until now there has been no general survey of his singular life and work. Born in Venice, Italy, Beato came of age in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. As a young apprentice in 1856, he photographed the sites of the Crimean War, thereby launching a long and remarkably adventurous career. Over the next half century he would follow in the wake of the British Empire: Egypt, Palestine, and Syria; India, where he photographed the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny; and China, where he chronicled the Second Opium War. He spent some thirty years in Japan and Burma, where he was among the first commercial photographers at the time that these countries were starting to open to the West. This abundantly illustrated book accompanies an exhibition-the first devoted to Beato's entire oeuvre-on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from December 7, 2010, to April 3, 2011.

The text includes as main chapters:

There is a selection of his photographs, including panoramas and hand-coloured Japanese studies, along with captivating period ephemera, lithographs based on his work, and humorous caricatures of the artist."