The Chinese portrait : 1860 to the present : major works from the Taikang collection /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:	Xiao xiang re. English.
Edition:	English-language edition.
Imprint:	Woodbridge : ACC Art Books, [2023] ©2023
Description:	287 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Taikang Collection -- Photograph collections -- Exhibitions. Portrait photography -- China -- Beijing -- Exhibitions. Photograph collections. Portrait photography. China -- Beijing. Portraits Exhibition catalogs Portraits. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13126737

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Other authors / contributors:	Tang, Xin, editor. Taikang Space, host institution.
ISBN:	1788841107 9781788841108
Notes:	Originally published in Chinese as: Xiao xiang re / Tai kang she ying shou cang ; Tang Xin zhu bian. Beijing : Tai kang kong jian, 2017. Published to accompany the exhibition: Portrait fever: Taikang's photography collection, held at Taikang Space, Beijing, in 2016. Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the Chinese.
Summary:	From political leaders to celebrities, photographic portraits exert considerable influence over our reaction to public figures. As the first academic publication focused on the Taikang photography collection, this book explores both the mechanics of portraiture and its psychological effects. Taikang Space is one of the most important non-profit art institutions in China. Based in Beijing, they focus on contemporary art and photography. The Chinese Portrait: 1860 to the Present is based on the framework of the eponymous exhibition, which ran at Taikang Space from March 2017. This book introduces the curator and researchers involved with the exhibition, as well as researchers such as Shi Zhimin, Jin Yongquan, Liu Jianping, Liu Zhangbolong, who deliver their own unique angles on the topic of portrait photography. The Chinese Portrait: 1860 to the Present also features the curator's interviews with Qia Sijie, Chen Shilin and Zhang Zuo - respectively the personal photographer, standard portrait re-toucher and darkroom technician of Chairman Mao. -- Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

Preface: The warmth of a portrait
Taikang photography collection, an interview with Tang Xin
Notes on photography and portraiture
The ethics of portraiture
The Taikang collection
Early photography
The republican period
Costume and character
Portraits of women
Mao Zedong and his comrades
The seventies
The eighties and later
Ranyin Fa
Portraiture's journey
The demise of visual ideology
Identity formation in photographed portraiture
The chairman never passed judgment
Through honed technique art forms the paradigm
The method for developing duplicate reversal film
Collaborative project: the insight of the darkroom technician.

The Chinese portrait : 1860 to the present : major works from the Taikang collection /

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