First Exhibition of the Earliest Photographs of Chinese Women
Dragon Women: Early Chinese Photography Opening Reception: March 15, 6pm to 9pm On view March 14 – May 15, 202410 West 18th Street 7th Floor, New YorkOpen by appointment only: 646-838-4576 or 410-602-3002 Rare early photographs of Chinese women from the Loewentheil Photography of China Collection will be exhibited for the first time in New […]
“Photographic Artists: Early Chinese Photography Studios” in Arts of Asia Spring 2022 Edition
PIONEERING Chinese photographers are under-recognised for their contributions to the history of photography. Works by early American and European exponents have been shown in China and appear in exhibitions in the world’s most prestigious museums, but their Chinese peers remain largely unknown. This is due in part to the scarcity of fine photographs of China […]
“The Art of Lai Fong”: Loewentheil Collection’s Lai Fong Photographs Featured in Arts of Asia Spring 2021 Edition
Tsinghua University Art Museum in Beijing hosted “Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection,” the museum’s inaugural photography exhibition, in 2018-2019. The exhibition presented masterpieces of early photography of China by twenty-one famous photographers, photographic studios and anonymous artists, among them Lai Fong (Li Fang, aka Lai Afong). […]