Universe through the Lens: Historical Images of China in the Moonchu Foundation Collection
Presented by Hong Kong Museum of History
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Mr Gao Chu, Scholar and curator of Chinese photography; Director of the Social Archive of Chinese Photography at the China Academy of Art (CAA); Director of the Photography Department of the CAA Art Museum Head Curator
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Mr Xu Jianing, Scholar of the history of photography
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8 October 2023 (Sunday) |
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3:30 – 4:30 pm |
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Putonghua |
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Images serve as a visual means of recording history. The Moonchu Foundation is dedicated to collecting historical images from the inception of photography in China and has amassed a substantial collection until the present. This lecture will provide a brief introduction to selected masterpieces from this collection, highlighting their rarity in content and their reflection on the development of photographic techniques.
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A scholar and curator of Chinese photography, Mr Gao Chu now serves as the director of the Social Archive of Chinese Photography at the China Academy of Art (CAA), director of the Photography Department of the CAA Art Museum, and associate research fellow of The Institute for Collaborative Innovation in Chinese Visual Studies. In the past decade or so, he and his team have built a documentary and photographic archive of the history of revolution in China, by recovering and collecting oral history, as well as negatives, photos and diaries of hundreds of photographers who were active from the 1930s to the 1980s. Examples of the books published or co-edited by Gao Chu are Forefront: Wartime Photography in China 1936-1945 (2015); China (2019); Revolutionary and Revival: A Catalog of the 100th Anniversary of China Communist Party (2022); and Literati Photography: Lyrical and Epic (Forthcoming).
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Mr Xu Jianing is a scholar of the history of photography. He has published a number of publications on the subject, such as Illustrations of China and Its People (2016) and Series of Historical Images of China – the Collection of Early Photographers (2017), and has also edited a number of historical picture albums, such as 200 Years of Sino-US Relations (2016); 180 Years of Sino-Japanese Relations (2018); China (2019); and Revolution and Revival: A Catalog of the 100th Anniversary of China Communist Party (2022).
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