Ge Lei, Photography in China (1850s-1890s) – (Lei Ge) ◄ Tidigare Nästa ►

Artist: Lei Ge

storlek: 136 x 96 cm

museum: UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China)

Teknik: Acrylic

Through his research into early Chinese photography, Ge Lei exposes the intricate relationship between photographic transmission and the onset of capitalism. Beginning in the late 1850s, from coastal areas to the hinterlands, photo studios were established in parallel with the expansion of the treaty ports, as China was thoroughly and forcefully pried open by Western powers through the 1890s.