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Overview
This is a completely new guide to the FreerSackler Gallery collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs from Asia and the Middle East, which features some remarkable early photography as well as newly acquired works by leading modern and contemporary artists, photographers and film-makers. Highlights include extremely rare photonegative portraits of Cixi (1835-1908), the Qing empress dowager of China, photographed by the son of her senior lady-in-waiting, who may have been the only person ever permitted to photograph her. There is also a series of photos taken by Alice Roosevelt Longworth during the Taft Mission to Asia in 1905.
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- ISBN-13: 9781907804656
- ISBN-10: 190780465X
- Publisher: Giles
- Publish Date: February 2017
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
- Page Count: 216
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