Los 4043

China
Creek Life, Pearl River

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 6.6.2026

Photographer: John Thomson (1837-1921). Creek Life, Pearl River. 1869-70. Albumen print, mounted to original board. 23,5 x 28 cm (mount ca. 30 x 40 cm). Signed in lower left in the negative, titled in ink and pencil in German below the image on the mount.

A major figure of nineteenth century photography, John Thomson spent ten years in the Far East, the last four of which were in China. He was a prolific writer and skillfully marketed his own work, which was reproduced in many periodicals and books of the time. His vivid portrayal of the people and landscapes of China in the late 1860s and early 1870s is undoubtedly among the finest bodies of work on this subject.

Literatur: Terry Bennett. History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879. London: Quaritch 2010, ill. p. 229.