Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
This is a completely new guide to the Freer|Sackler 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.
Carol Huh, associate curator of contemporary Asian art, became the reer|Sackler’s first curator of contemporary art in 2007. Through exhibitions, acquisitions, and public programs, Huh focuses on current social change and artistic production related to Asia. Recent projects have
included such exhibitions as Symbolic Cities: The Work of Ahmed Mater, the museum’s ongoing Perspectives series (featuring works by Y.Z. Kami, Hale Tenger, Hai Bo, Rina Bannerjee, and Michael Joo, among others), and Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall (Vancouver Art Gallery), for which Huh was the in-house curator. She received bachelor’s and
master’s degrees from Georgetown University
Introduction
Looking the Part
A Sense of Place
Witness: Tokyo to Tehran
Endnotes
About the Authors
Index