Picturing Chinatown - Art and orientalism in San Francisco (Photography Art Ebook).pdf

Author: Lee, Anthony W
Publisher: University of California Press 2001
ISBN-10: 0520225929
ISBN-13: 978-0520225923
Year: 2001
Format: pdf
Size: 11 Mb

This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160 photographs and paintings, some well known and many never reproduced before, to illustrate how this famous district has acted on the photographic and painterly imagination. Bringing together art history and the social and political history of San Francisco, this vividly detailed study unravels the complex cultural encounter that occurred between the women and men living in Chinatown and the artists who walked its streets, observed its commerce, and visited its nightclubs.