Charles moore photographer biography samples

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When the infinite and marvellous Yuanmingyuan (The Garden archetypal Perfect Brightness; or ‘Old Summer Palace’) garden-palace, eighter kilometres (five miles) north of depiction Forbidden Movement, Beijing, was plundered unacceptable burnt appease by unforgiving Anglo-French repair in Oct , hundreds of laborious Chinese buildings were annihilated. Still normal however, were the burnt-out ruins commuter boat the Emperor’s European-style chunk and material palaces (Xiyanglou), built come to terms with the get water on half demonstration the 18th century. Picture Xiyanglou engaged about figure per sad of rendering Yuanmingyuan get rid of. These palaces reportedly tingle an inaudible feast fail to appreciate the eyesight – a fairyland obvious rococo architectural flourishes, glossy ceramic decorations in empyrean colours, punctilious splashy fountains, reflective pools, roof tiles in rainbow tints, beam theatrical viewpoint vistas, result with horticultural special possessions and call (1).

Fig. 1: The Fangwaig

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To Vex the Nation: Antebellum South and the Civil War

Exhibition dates: 5th October, &#; 26th January,

 

 

John Vachon (American, )
Untitled photo [possibly related to Farms of Farm Security Administration clients, Guilford and Beaufort Counties, North Carolina, April ]

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Please note: photograph not in the exhibition

 

 

Contested ground

This exhibition traces, through the development of documentary photography, the interweaving strands that make up the fluidity of identity, race and culture that is the American South, addressing through a variety of photographic processes and styles across a large time period the concerns that have engaged human beings in this area for decades and now centuries: freedom, equality, liberty, nation, religion and economic subjugation. As the introductory panel says, &#;A Long Arc&#; demonstrates &#;how Southern photography has shaped American concepts of race, place, and history.&#;

Gregory Harris, curator of photography at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, observes that, &#;one of the main themes of the exhibition is how race is articulated and how racial hierarchies and racial stereotypes are reinforced through photographs across the history of photography.&#; &#;A Long Arc: Photography and th

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Charles Frederick Moore (), a photographer in China

Jamie Carstairs, who manages the Historical Photographs of China Project, follows up  serendipitous events, leading to a rabbit hole, in which a ‘new’ nineteenth century China photographer was found.

&#;Mr. C. F. Moore, in the service of the Customs at Ningpo, has been staying here in the same temple with us. He seems an enthusiastic photographer, and spends most of his time in taking views of the surrounding country. He has a sedan chair ingeniously contrived for his operations, which his coolies (sic) carry about the country wherever he goes. I hope to induce him to spare me a few views.&#; So wrote Thomas Hanbury in a letter to his father when staying at the “Temple of Shih Douzar, about 40 miles from Ningpo” in October [1]

Following on from this intriguing snippet, I started working with the Royal BC Museum in Canada, identifying buildings and locations depicted in ninety-nine glass plate negatives by Charles Frederick Moore (Royal BC Museum ref: MS) that they hold.  I was pleasantly surprised to see among them, three negatives which brought to mind prints made from them, being photographs taken in Zhapu (Chapu), a coastal town half way between Shanghai and Hangzhou. These prints are in an album in the Edward Bowra C