Invited Paper, 'Mentors and Rivals: On Early Photography in Japan', Through the Lens: Photography in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan, Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Dunfermline, Scotland.

Gartlan, L. (Invited speaker)

School of Art History

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Period	7 Oct 2016
Event title	Invited Paper, 'Mentors and Rivals: On Early Photography in Japan', Through the Lens: Photography in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan, Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum, Dunfermline, Scotland.
Event type	Other
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The Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum’s collection holds nearly three hundred albumen prints from the 1860s and 1870s in China and Japan. These images were collected by Andrew Carnegie in 1878 during his trip around the world. The collection includes photographs by both local and western photographers, such as Lai Afong, Felice Beato, Milton Miller, William Saunders, Shuzaburo Usui, Uchida Kuichi and Baron von Stillfried. This event brings together scholars of Chinese and Japanese art, photography and cultural geography with the aim of uncovering the rhetorical complexities of these prints, and exploring the fluidity of the lines between local/western, insider/outsider, art/photography and commercial/fine art images, as well as analysing the relationship between landscape photography and political power.

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A career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and early Yokohama photography
Research output: Book/Report › Book