Photography Chinese Store
Photography Chinese Store
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A black-and-white photograph showing shop fronts in Beijing. These are richly decorated with wooden doors, windows and fences. Signs for visitors are attached to the poles between them. The roofs of the façades are also richly decorated with wooden joints or dowels. Rickshaw drivers, street vendors and other passers-by of various social status gather in front of the stores. Besides the common people, recognisable by their simple clothes and dark skin colour, we see members of the upper class, such as merchants and officials, in the centre of the picture. Their clothes are decorated with silk and precious stones, and they use hairpins and other accessories like fans.
Doors, windows, and fences are made of the usual lattice work. They served various purposes – from lighting and ventilation to decoration and room division.
The photograph is the 117th of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing ... more
A black-and-white photograph showing shop fronts in Beijing. These are richly decorated with wooden doors, windows and fences. Signs for visitors are attached to the poles between them. The roofs of the façades are also richly decorated with wooden joints or dowels. Rickshaw drivers, street vendors and other passers-by of various social status gather in front of the stores. Besides the common people, recognisable by their simple clothes and dark skin colour, we see members of the upper class, such as merchants and officials, in the centre of the picture. Their clothes are decorated with silk and precious stones, and they use hairpins and other accessories like fans.
Doors, windows, and fences are made of the usual lattice work. They served various purposes – from lighting and ventilation to decoration and room division.
The photograph is the 117th 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 Chinesisches Geschäftshaus. (DZ, MV)
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