Item sets
Type is exactly
Private collection
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Beijing Silvermine / Thomas Sauvin Archive A large corpus of vernacular prints, negatives, albums and objects that covers the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Solange Brand Archive Solange Brand worked as a secretary at the French embassy secretary in Beijing from 1965 to 1968, during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). She recorded and captured her immediate surroundings thanks to a camera acquired in Hong Kong.
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Louis-Philippe Messelier Archive Louis-Philippe Messelier was a French journalist engaged in the business of wool during the 1930s. Based in the French concession of Shanghai, his photographs depicted the rapid changes occurring in Republican China.
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Auguste François Archive Auguste François was a French Consul in China between 1896 and 1904. As a diplomat and amateur photographer, he compiled an archive composed of around three thousand glass plates and photographic prints with detailed captions.
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Private Archive of the 1970s Catherine and Olivier de B. were brother and sister and two amateurs photographers who stayed three weeks in China between July and August 1971. They compiled an archive of over a hundred still images as well as moving images.
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Dominique Darbois Archive Dominique Darbois was a female professional photographer who travelled to China in the late 1950s. She captured daily life in cities while accompanying an archaeological expedition that led her to photograph the Maijishan Grottoes in Gansu province as well as the Gobi Desert.
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White Villa Collection A private collection comprised exclusively of Chinese contemporary photographs. Initiated in 1999, it gathers significant artists that have impacted on the history of contemporary photography in China since the 1980s onwards.
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Mission Citroën Archive The Mission Citröen - also called La Croisière Jaune - was organised by the French car company André Citroën and aimed to drive across the Asian continent in the 1930s. This mission left an extensive photographic archive currently held at the Centre d’archives de Terre Blanche.
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Albert Gervais Archive Jen-I-Kouan – aka Albert Gervais – was a French Doctor who lived in Western China between 1919 and 1925. This private archive unveils this person’s memory through his photographic archives, texts and other documents.
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Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896-1920 Based on the private collection of scholar Régine Thiriez, this database primarily focuses on early postcards of China. It was created in collaboration with Gérald Foliot, scholar and System Administrator.
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Private archive of the 1980s A private archive that encompasses photographs (color slides), negatives, audio recordings, and manuscripts amongst other documents, all taken in China during the 1980’s.
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Yang Tche Chen Archive Yang Tche Chen was a Chinese student-worker who travelled to France in the 1920s thanks to the Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement. This private archive provides a variety of printed documents, including old photographs taken both in China and France.
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Marie Roberte Dolléans-Guignard Archive Marie Roberte Dolléans-Guignard was a French Sinologist sent to Beijing between 1934 and 1939 to catalogue the French collection at the Department of Foreign Collections at the Beijing National Library. On that occasion, she took over 1000 photographs across China.