Photography Embroidery of Bamboo Curtains
Photography Embroidery of Bamboo Curtains
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A black-and-white photograph showing two bamboo curtain makers in a street in Beijing. The workshop has no façade and is open to the street. One of the artisans is resting in the coolness of the shade, smoking opium with relish.
The photograph is the 141st of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing (1914–1920). In the handwritten inventory of the album, the photograph is referred to as Binden der bamboo-Vorhänge. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 14.1 cm, width: 8.5 cm
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase - Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Object condition, handling and damage: Poor resolution
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