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Category Archives: Photograph of the day
Back to the past
Prior to 1949, and again more recently, foreign tourists avidly visited the marvellous sights in China. The tourist trail would include the Ming Tombs, just forty kilometres north of Peking (Beijing), here being explored in the 1920s, by donkey in … Continue reading
L is for … Leaders
China has just changed its leadership team, at the 18th Party Congress in Beijing. The photograph below, a favourite of ours, shows three Premiers in waiting, and the widow of one just deceased. Here we have Wang Jingwei (second left); … Continue reading
Posted in Alphabet China, Photograph of the day
Tagged leader, politician, revolutionaries
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Entrance to the Huihuiying Mosque, Peking
To mark the Islamic New Year, here is part of a rare photograph of the entrance to the Huihuiying Mosque [回回营清真寺遗存], in Donganfu Hutong, near Beihai Park, Beijing, taken about 1870. The image shown above, is a cropped version to … Continue reading
Posted in cross-searching, Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day
Tagged architecture, Beijing, Bowra, Islam, Muslim, religion, road
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Sending up a balloon, c.1925
Modern marketing – attracting attention to a product in a new way. Here in 1925, the British American Tobacco Company are sending up a balloon to advertise ‘Hatamen’ cigarettes (Pa01-33). The location is not verified, but it may well be … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, balloon, cigarettes
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OOOOOlympics!
Here’s five historical images from China, for the Games:
Posted in Photograph of the day
Tagged rowing, shooting, sport, swimming, tennis, weight-lifting
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Chinese bells for the Olympics
This photograph, with its somewhat clumsy composition, was snapped inside an unidentified temple. It is really more about the two splendid, wooden idols of unidentified gods, than about the bell. These impressive and expressive statues were very colourfully painted, something … Continue reading
A photographer’s view
The great photographer Diane Arbus once observed that ‘a photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know.’ NA07-107 is the very picture of such secretive photography, if only because it is such … Continue reading
Posted in Digitisation, Elsewhere on the net, Photograph of the day
Tagged Arbus, Archives, bell, Berger, Confucious, double, exposure, Faurer, gong, Kongzi, Moholy-Nagy, National, percussion, photography, Qufu, Shandong, temple, TNA
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Favourites: Robert Hart’s band
This is a personal favourite of mine, although there is plenty of competition. I love Warren Swire’s photograph of the old ‘Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages’ (万寿桥) in Fuzhou, his wonderful picture of the Bund and shipping at Jiujiang, and … Continue reading
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Studio portrait of a Chinese woman
This striking photograph (JC-s037), with strong diagonals in the style of Alexander Rodchenko, may well be the work of an unidentified Chinese studio photographer working in the racy, cosmopolitan Shanghai of the 1930s. The precise combination printing and the masterly … Continue reading
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Tagged Carstairs, photograph, photography, portrait, studio, surrealism
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N is for Ningbo
The team has recently been corresponding with an informal group in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, who are researching the architectural heritage of this former treaty port. Opened under the first of the Sino-British treaties (Nanjing, 1842), Ningbo was … Continue reading
Posted in Alphabet China, Elsewhere on the net, Image Annotation, Photograph of the day
Tagged Bowra, bridge, Ningbo, user engagement
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