CNN’s Oscar Holland interviewed Stephan Loewentheil as part of their coverage of Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection.
“Photography is the greatest preserver of history. … The earliest photography preserves culture in China, and elsewhere, as it had been for many hundreds of years because it was simultaneous with the technological revolutions that were to change everything.” – Stephan Loewentheil
CNN, “Rare 19th-century images show China at the dawn of photography,” October 1, 2020.