![]() ![]() He groups early views, which echo the format and the approach of contemporary regional survey photography, with a series of personal posed portraits of the Chinese population, thereby laying the groundwork for understanding the representation of Chinatown as a visual negotiation between an urban landscape and the racialized body. “Lee sets the stage for his inquiry by examining the earliest photographs of Chinatown, dating from the 1850s and the 1860s. In her review of Picturing Chinatown for the Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 5, Number 2 (Johns Hopkins University Press 2002), Nancy Um wrote about one of Lee’s analysis of Chinatown’s photographs from the 1880’s as follows: In examining the photographic record of San Francisco Chinatown’s first century, from 1850 to 1950, Lee examined more than 160 photographs and paintings from a multi-disciplinary perspective as an art, social and political historian. Lee, an art historian, critic, curator and photographer, published a masterwork in the field, Picturing Chinatown Art and Orientalism in San Francisco (University of California Press 2001). ![]() Taber’s Theme and Variations on a Dupont Street Butcher Shopīefore turning to an examination of Isaiah West Taber’s well-known photographs of a San Francisco Chinatown butcher shop, an expression of appreciation for some prior scholarship is in order.Ī full two decades have passed since Anthony W. ![]()
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