Cleveland Museum of Art
A Commercial Street in Guangzhou
Lai FongLinkedCulture matchlcp-46ec6c0dc51c
- Date
- c. 1880
- Medium
- albumen print
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 523594
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Guangzhou, formerly known as Canton, is located on the Pearl River and has for centuries been a center of trade and commerce. The photographer emphasizes the energy and bustle of this street of shops and businesses through the blurred figure in motion at bottom left. Other men peer out to watch the photographer—not a common sight in those days—as he captures their image on film. Lai Fong’s studio, Afong Studio, was the most successful in China in the late 1800s, selling well to both Chinese and non-Chinese customers.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Michael F. Resch
- Provenance
- ?-2022: Michael Resch, Gates Mills, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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