The History of Photography in China, 1842-1860

From 1842, when the use of a camera was first recorded in China, foreign and Chinese photographers captured the people, places and events of this unsettled period. They were professional portraitists, soldiers and pioneering amateurs, Terry Bennett shares the story and the images behind his comprehensive history of the earliest years of photography in China: the discovery of photography framed against the tumultuous backdrop of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion and the opening of numerous treaty ports to foreign trade.
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