Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown ebook
by John Kuo Wei Tchen,Arnold Genthe
130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.
130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. To read this book, upload an EPUB or FB2 file to Bookmate. As the social fabric of nineteenth-century rural southern China frayed and then burst at the seams, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, were uprooted and pulled apart.
Genthe was beguiled by San Francisco These marvelous photographs of San Francisco’s Tangrenbu launched him on a long, productive career as a highly acclaimed photographic artist; and at the same time they.
Genthe was beguiled by San Francisco. These marvelous photographs of San Francisco’s Tangrenbu launched him on a long, productive career as a highly acclaimed photographic artist; and at the same time they preserved rare, priceless glimpses of the rich street life of old Chinatown as it was before being leveled by the disastrous earthquake and fire of 1906. San Francisco’s Tangrenbu.
Arnold Genthe was a German doctor of philosophy who arrived in San Francisco in 1895. He was fascinated by the Chinese and used his skill as an amatuer photographer to take over 200 photos of Chinatown's "Tangrenbu" section. These are valuable photographs as they depict Chinatown as it existed before the 1906 earthquake.
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942. Tchen, John Kuo Wei. Boxid. Photography, Artistic, Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif. - - Pictorial works, San Francisco (Calif. - - Pictorial works. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Oliver Wendell Holmes Library.
In 1895, a cultured, well-educated young German named Arnold Genthe arrived in San Francisco as a tutor . Would recommend book as an historic photographic detail of San Francisco Chinatown BEFORE the April 17, 1906 Earthquake and Fire.
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By: Arnold Genthe, John Kuo Wei Tchen. Fascinated by a living culture totally foreign to his experience, Genthe began to photograph Tangrenbu and its inhabitants.
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Arnold Genthe is a German-born American Photographer who was Internationally recognized for his work and best known for photographs of San Francisco’s China Town, before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the earthquake itself. He has also made portraits of many notable politicians, socialites, literary figures and other entertainment celebrities that include actors and dancers.
In 1895, a cultured, well-educated young German named Arnold Genthe arrived in San Francisco as a tutor to the son of an aristocratic family. Almost immediately, Genthe was attracted by Chinatown, or "Tangrenbu" — a teeming ten-block area of crowded buildings, narrow streets, and exotic sights and sounds in the shadow of Nob Hill.Fascinated by a living culture totally foreign to his experience, Genthe began to photograph Tangrenbu and its inhabitants. Today, these photographs (over 200 are known to exist) are the best visual documentary record of Chinatown at the turn of the century, offering priceless glimpses of the rich street life of the district before it was leveled by the great earthquake and fire of 1906.Rediscover the lost world of old Chinatown in serene and enduring images of cobbled streets and bustling shops, street vendors and merchants, fish and vegetable markets, Devil's Kitchen, the Street of the Gamblers, Portsmouth Square and more. But most of all, enjoy distinctive candid portraits of the people of old Chinatown: a pipe-bowl member, a paper gatherer, itinerant peddlers, toy merchants, boys playing shuttlecock, a fortune-teller, a sword dancer, women and children in ornate holiday finery, an aged opium smoker and many other unaffected and revealing images.Rich in detail and atmosphere, the photographs are complemented by historian John Tchen's informative and well-researched text, which outlines the turbulent history of Chinese-Americans in California, dispels numerous myths about Chinatown and its residents, and illuminates the role of Genthe's photographs in capturing the subtle flavor and texture of everyday life in the district before 1906.