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Book SynopsisWilliam Schaefer traces how early twentieth century photographic practices in Shanghai provided artists, writers, and intellectuals a forum within which to debate culture, ethnicity, history, and the very nature of images, thereby showing how artists and writers used such practices to make visible the shadows of modernity in Shanghai.
Trade Review"The book is smart and rigorously researched, and the prose is immaculate. By sticking close to his objects of study, no matter how ambiguous, difficult, and distant, Schaefer shows us how Shanghai’s shadows strangely illuminate the cultural history of the city—and the practices of art history." -- Lisa Claypool * CAA Reviews *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Part I. Modernism and Photography's Places
1. Picturing Photography, Abstracting Pictures 25
2. False Portals 61
Part II. Landscapes of Images
3. Projected Pasts 113
4. Montage Landscapes 145
5. Shanghai Savage 180
Notes 221
Bibliography 263
Index 279
