MetaFilter posts tagged with Photography and China

Living in Hell

WPW — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:22:13 -0800

Infernal Landscapes. The work of Lu Guang, who has been given this year's $30,000 W Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. It's inescapably reminiscent of the work of Edward Burtynsky.

Bizarre and Unusual

michswiss — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:26:17 -0800

Bizarre and Unusual [NSF Weak Stomachs] is a section of Imagine China, a Chinese stock photography site. It includes images of China's first face transplant, for a rabbit, a one-horned man, how to wash 4.2 meter long hair, and many, many images of tumors and growth. Aside from the unusual, it has sections on Current Events and News, sports, and other topics. [via APhotoEditor

Inside Red China

Abiezer — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:04:26 -0800

Two galleries of photos of China in 1957 and 1978 by Robert Carl Cohen, "the first American to film China since the 1949 Communist victory." My personal favourite set is these street scenes from 1957, but Cohen captured a diverse range of images from Chinese lives. His (? I presume) site Radical Images has plenty of other interesting stuff too.

radiant and reverent: religious festivals in China and Tibet

madamjujujive — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:52:24 -0800

Armchair travel via three superb audio slide shows by photographer Reinhard Krause:
Monlam, the Tibetan Great Prayer Festival - Aba China
Catholics celebrate Christmas in rural China
Tibetan prayer meeting in Tongren His portfolio is also quite excellent - here a few photos I particularly liked: Window washer Seated women in a park Three cheerleaders Chinese rock band Young Chinese athletes North Korean soldiers exercising North Korean respect

Historical Photographs of China

peacay — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:23:32 -0800

The Sidney D Gamble Photograph Collection at Duke University consists of about 5,000 newly digitised pictures, taken predominantly in China between 1917 and 1932. Browse by subject, category or location tags. Photos taken in 1908 are to be added in the future. [via]

The People's Park

vronsky — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:33:44 -0800

People's Park -v-

Vintage photography from China and Australia

madamjujujive — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:22:52 -0800

Two historic photography collections from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum: The Tyrell Collection - glass plate negatives from the Sydney studios of Charles Kerry and Henry King from 1884-1917 depicting a local record of the times; and the Hedda Morrison Collection - photographs from China, 1933-1946. The collection also includes personal papers and objects, such as Chinese papercuts, belt toggles, and photos from a 1930s-era folk festival in Germany.

First of the photojournalists

Abiezer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:55:43 -0800

Japanese places and people photographed by Felice Beato, a pioneer 19th century photographer who documented the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-French military intervention in China before opening a studio in Yokohama in 1863. He also seems to have been the first photographer in Korea.Wikipedia NYPL archive First two links are units in MIT's Visualizing Cultures project.

Gathering mountains

Abiezer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:04:20 -0800

Docu-Images of China and Tibet. Thomas H. Hahn is a Cornell professor and an excellent photographer. Themed collections include Chinese modern art, urbanisation and architecture, sacred mountains, religion, and historical photographs.

China's last cave dwellers.

Soup — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:13:57 -0800

China's last cave dwellers.

A Toy Factory in China.

chunking express — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:28:04 -0800

25 Photos from a Toy Factory in China.

More Luxury Hotels Required

SansPoint — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:41:15 -0800

SimCity 2008, Scenario: Beijing. Prepare your city for the 2008 Olympics. Raze slums, build luxury hotels, and stadiums. Make the nation, and the world, proud!

Contemporary Chinese photography

growabrain — Sun, 13 May 2007 11:39:44 -0800

An interesting collection of contemporary Chinese photography at “Meeting place Foto Fest Beijing 2006”. Among the 34 portfolios: Shackled prisoners, Children’s IDs, an actor awaiting his entrance by Luo Dan, the symmetrical works of Li Nan, images by Xu Yong and Li Yu. Many more inside. Click to enlarge. (Via)

close encounters

nickyskye — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:21:40 -0800

Alluring and haunting photographs of life in Hong Kong: lost laundry, bastard chairs, copy artists, sitting in China, back door, wildlife trade [disturbing]. Michael Wolf has been linked before for his amazing architecture of density and tiny apartments. He has also collected historical portraits and propaganda posters.

Humanizing China - a Photo Gallery

jonson — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:34:34 -0800

The excellent Chinablog EastSouthWestNorth has a series of photos entitled "Humanizing China." The photos are grouped in three categories: Survival, Relationships & Desires and all three sections are highly worth checking out. Via.

South of the clouds

Abiezer — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:07:53 -0800

In the 1920s Joseph Rock, an Austrian-born botanist went to live in Lijiang, in Yunnan province. During expeditions over the next three decades he photographed shamans, trulku, petty kings, nomads, astounding scenery and flora and fauna across much of southwest China. He also studied the language and culture of the Nakhi people previouslywhose homeleand centred around Lijiang. A contemporary blogger is now posting some then-and-now images of the places and people Rock recorded.

Creating the framework for a consumer-oriented society

arse_hat — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:13:24 -0800

Unintelligent Design. The History Images of Sze Tsung Leong. "Then there's the other type of history that is recorded in the fabric of cities. This includes the houses that are being destroyed; it has to do with the history of quotidian things, really, the layers of history that have slowly accumulated. The loss of this fabric the spaces and histories particular to different cities means that the particular cultural value and artistic qualities they contain, are lost." also here and here.

Hard seat hell.

Abiezer — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:50:45 -0800

Chinese On The Train Wang Fuchun's exhibition at the 798 Photo Gallery. Some good stuff in their archives too.

Howard French - Asia photos

carter — Mon, 29 May 2006 10:29:44 -0800

Howard French - Asia photos Photos from across Asia by Howard French, who works for the New York Times. Includes many photos of the 'Disappearing Shanghai' that is being obliterated by the city's relentless urbanization.

Weegee = Ouija

docgonzo — Mon, 08 May 2006 08:45:43 -0800

Maohair, Chinese "peasant with a camera": China's Weegee? (Weegee links: The Getty, Int'l Center of Photography, Eastman Collection, 1945 radio interview and weegee.org); (Maohair links: His MSN Spaces page (in Chinese w/pics), more pics.) Warning: Not for the faint of heart.

The Tank Man

bardic — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:44:40 -0800

The Tank Man (via Frontline). An iconic image of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

China Pictures

Postroad — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:21:21 -0800

China Pictures is a free picture site featuring [thousands of ] pictures throughout China, including pictures of China's major cities and tourist attractions as well as pictures of Chinese people and their daily life. You will find not only pictures of the famous Great Wall of China, the forbidden City and the Terracotta Warriors, but also pictures from the unbeaten path as far as Guizhou, Xinjiang, Tibet and other places.

of rice and venn

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 19:09:40 -0800

Beautiful China ...

Hi mom!

ab'd al'Hazred — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 09:40:31 -0800

Iwan.com has lots of nice photos of interesting places and people and an inoffensive site layout.

James Whitlow Delano, photographer

matteo — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:02:15 -0800

A Tale of Two Chinas, by photographer James Whitlow Delano. Whole swaths of cities have vanished, to be transformed with developments that have quickly made them look more like Houston, Qatar, or Singapore than the ancient China of our mind's eye. The old hutong, or alleyways, of Beijing that once formed a mosaic of passageways and the siheyuan, or walled courtyard houses, have been largely razed. The old brick rowhouses of Shanghai, are now being leveled and replaced by modern high-rises. Traditional marketplaces, residential neighborhoods, streets where medicine shops or bookstores bunched together, are now either gone or have been rouged up as tourist destinations, part of a new synthetic, virtual version of China's incredible past. The energy fueling this transformation bespeaks a powerful but often blind, unquestioning faith in an inchoate idea of progress that takes one's breath away, often literally. (Unrestrained growth has left China with the dubious honor of having 9 of the 10 most polluted cities in the world). Delano's new book is "Empire: Impressions from China". More inside.