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Strolling Through a Picture-Scroll

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Panorama of the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), showing Kunming Lake and ruins on Wanshou Shan (also known as Longevity Hill), with Yuquan Shan (also known as Jade Spring Hill) in the background, Peking (now Beijing), China

Felice Beato

Illustrated London News

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Partial view of the 'Strolling Through a Picture-Scroll' [Hua Chung Yu] building complex, Yihe Yuan (also known as the Summer Palace and formerly the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan]), Beijing, China

Lois Conner

"Chinese scroll paintings are meant to be read. Rather than taking in the whole painting, you observe a small portion and move along, seeing the landscape change as in a journey. Because it's not possible to take in the entire panoramic photograph in a glance (except at a distance), I think it invites a different kind of reading - perhaps similar to the scroll."

~ Lois Conner, 'Panoramas of the Far East', back cover.

Conner:

Feinberg, Jean E. 'Wave Hill Pictured: Celebration of a Garden' (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991).
Sullivan, Constance, and Amy Pasten, eds. 'Panoramas of the Far East: Photographs by Lois Conner' (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993
'Under Western Eyes: Walls of China in Photographs' (ex. cat.; [Urbana, Ill.]: Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987), 32.
Wu, Joseph, ed. 'Lu-i-ssu K'ang-na she ying Chung-kuo chan: ch'eng ch'iang hsia ti Chung-kuo/Photographs of China by Lois Conner: In the Shadow of the Wall' (ex. cat.; [Taichung], Taiwan: Taiwan Museum of Art, 1992), p. 91, repr.; p. 110.

Yihe Yuan:

The Administration of I Ho Yuan, ed. 'I Ho Yuan: A Brief Treatment of the Location, History, and Present Edifices of the Imperial Summer Palace' ([Peking]: I Ho Yuan, 1935), map, 23-24.
Beijing Summer Palace Administration Office and the Department of Architecture of Qinghua University, comps. 'Summer Palace' (Beijing: Zhaohua Publishing House, 1981), 19-21, 73-75, 116-117.
Harris, David. 'Of Battle and Beauty: Felice Beato's Photographs of China' (Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999), 150-151.
'Through the Moon Gate: A Guide to China's Historic Monuments' (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1986), 26-31.

Beato:

Harris, David. 'Of Battle and Beauty: Felice Beato's Photographs of China' (Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999), 150-151.
Hevia, James.
'Reflecting Truth'
Sontag, Susan.
Basu, Karna.
Sharma, Yuthika (at CCA Aug 2006)

the history - Second Opium War

the site - the Summer Palace, Strolling through a Picture-Scroll

Qingyi Yuan as a representation of natural environment; Yihe Yuan as a representation of Qingyi Yuan

access to the site - Beato and the Anglo-French expedition; 19th century non-noble Chinese; modern Chinese; tourists

the photographers and their equipment

prior images (preconceptions) - Beato and corpses; tourist views

documentation, preservation

photographs, the market and memory/responsibility

the views - a two-part panorama; a panoramic view, similar proportions