Power and Perspective
This collection is a selection of the Phillips Library material included in PEM's exhibit, Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China.
Photography’s development as a new form of art and technology coincided with profound changes in the way China engaged with the world in the nineteenth century. The medium evolved in response to war, trade, travel, and a desire for knowledge about an unfamiliar place. Power and Perspective provides a rich account of the exchanges among photographers, artists, patrons, and subjects in the treaty port cities that connected China and the West. Drawing primarily from the Peabody Essex Museum’s historic and largely unpublished collection of photography, this exhibition examines the confrontations and collaborations that shaped the adoption and practice of photography in China. By calling attention to the power dynamics at play, Power and Perspective sheds light on photography as an inherently social medium that continues to shape our perspectives today.
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