The 18th issue of "Photo Online Shooting", which will be held from April 22 to 23, 2022 (this Saturday and Sunday), will launch a total of 32 targets for the "Yadong Print Album".
This special session features the photographs taken by the Yadong Printing and Painting Association in various parts of China to characterize and regionalize the combing and presentation, showing collectors and friends the different forms of dissemination of the "Yadong Printing Album", one of the most important photographic collections during the Republic of China, and covering the scenery and folklore of Yunnan, the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Beijing, Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Northeast China, Chahar, Suiyuan and other places.
The Yadong Printing And Painting Series was published in Dalian in September 1924 by the Manchurian-Mongolian Printing and Painting Association (Japan) and continued to be distributed for 19 consecutive years until 1942. The "Album" distributes ten photos around specific themes every month, covering Chinese customs and folklore, natural scenery, humanistic history, art and culture. The size and binding form of the photos on the "Album" are basically uniform, each black photo album paper is about 21×30 cm in size, and a photo of about 10×15 cm in size is pasted on the front and back, and a label with an explanatory text is attached next to each photo, including the title, shooting location, and brief introduction, and some of the labels are also printed with the shooting time and the first few of the first few times of the "Album" to which it belongs.
Among the more important photographers who photographed the Yadong Print Collection are Kozo Sakurai (also known as Ichiro Sakurai), who was the president of the Yadong Printing Association, as well as Shimazaki, Fumio Aoki, who photographed Tibet, and many photographers who have yet to be further examined.
Lot.66
Asia Minor Photography Grand View Society
Tenjai Temple Ten Kings Album (12 photos)
1926 Silver salt paper base
In the collection market, there are also "Manmeng Grand View" and "Asia Grand View", the size and binding form of the photos on these two print collections are almost the same as those of the "Yadong Printing Album", and some even indicate that the photos are the first few of the "Yadong Printing Album". Considering that the publisher renamed the "Manchurian-Mongolian Printing Association" as the "Yadong Printing and Painting Association" in January 1926, it can be considered that the "Manchurian and Mongolian Grand View", "Asia Grand View" and "Yadong Printing And Painting Series" are homologous products.
At the beginning of the release, the caption was available in Japanese, Chinese and English versions. At present, the main ones that appear in the domestic collection market are the Japanese version, the occasional English version, and the Chinese version rarely appears. The English version is about 50% more expensive than the Japanese version.
Lot.75
Yadong Prints
Beijing folklore and the Ming Tombs (24 photos)
1920s Silver Salt Paper Base
Lot.77
Yadong Prints
Xiangtangshan Grottoes (10 photos)
1920s Silver Salt Paper Base
Lot.85
Yadong Prints
Zhejiang Ningbo, Shaoxing (28 photos)
1920s Silver Salt Paper Base
Li Cuiwei of the National Library of China's research shows: "The Yadong Printing And Painting Series is a product of Japan's colonial policy toward China, and at the beginning of the last century, in order to achieve its ambition to exercise colonial rule over China, Japan sent explorers and scholars to China to collect information on astronomy, geography, minerals, forests, geology, water conservancy, society, and historical changes in various parts of China, and conducted a close investigation of all aspects of China, and at the same time introduced China's situation to the people through the media to arouse people's concern for China. Create conditions for further aggression against China. ”
Lot.88
Yadong Prints
Hunan albums (20 photos)
1920s Silver Salt Paper Base
Lot.92
Yadong Prints
Yunnan album (10 photos)
1920s Silver Salt Paper Base
Lot.66
Yadong Prints
Folk customs (16 photos)
1920s Silver Salt Paper Base
Due to the historical value of the "Yadong Printing Album", at present, there are the National Library of China, the National Museum of China, the National Diet Library of Japan, the Tohoku Gakuin University Library and other institutions in the collection of the "Yadong Printing Album", and it is said that the most complete ones are the Dalian Archives Bureau and the Dalian Library, and some researchers also have a certain number of "Painting Series". Before the 2006 photography auction, the market price of "Yadong Printing Album" was about 30-50 yuan a piece, and the current price has risen to 150 yuan a piece, a Taiwan album up to 300 yuan, and the most precious Tibet theme has exceeded 500 yuan a piece. Although the circulation of the "Picture Series" is large and the number of surviving is also quite large, due to its unique political, cultural, historical and artistic value, it can be expected that it will have a large upward space in the market.
The "Yadong Printing And Painting Series" has been active in the collection market, and Yang Honglin, a researcher at the National Museum of China, has published a monograph "Eyes in the Dark Night", and these images and photographers are quietly waiting for the arrival of Chinese scholars and collectors.
Special session 1 Night Nucleating Feature
Auction time is from 04/22 19:30 to 04/23 21:00
This special topic presents the historical images of Famous Coastal Cities such as Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, as well as the works of famous artists at home and abroad in the late Qing Dynasty, occupying most of the space of this special exhibition, and in the lenses of Yazhen Photo Studio, Huafang Photo Studio, William Freud, William Sanders, and Yamamoto Zanzhiro, in addition to showing the natural and cultural scenery and folklore of various places, it also shows the exquisite printing craftsmanship of artists and photo studios.
Session 2 War and Scenery: The Old Shadow of the Late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China
Sale from 04/22 19:30 to 04/23 21:20
More intuitively showing the waves and surges of the image to describe history, the photographers at this stage, for different purposes, with more realistic expression, created more vivid video works than the documentary history. This special session includes scenery photographic works from the Republic of China period, including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shandong, Hangzhou, Hankou and other places, as well as important war scenes including foreign troops stationed in China during the Gengzi period, the Russo-Japanese War, the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the Sino-Burmese-Indian battlefield.
Special Session 3 Special Topic of East Asian Printing Album
Auction hours are from 04/22 19:30 to 04/23 21:40
This special session will sort out and present the scenery and photos taken by the East Asian Printing association in various parts of China, so as to make the collection more orderly. This topic covers the scenery and folklore of different geographical concepts such as Northeast China, Chahar, Suiyuan, Beijing, Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, and the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, as well as the scenery and folklore under the administrative divisions of specific eras. It reflects the extensive and in-depth study of the culture and geography of the East Asian continent under the guidance of the great increase in national strength and the expansion of aggressive ambitions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and has left a valuable historical image legacy represented by the "Yadong Prints" of this era.
Session 4 Portraits and autographs of celebrities
Auction time is from 04/23 19:30 to 04/24 21:00
This special session (Lot 95-Lot 118) selects the portraits and autographs of many foreign celebrities and celebrities, covering politics, military, film and television performances, sports competitions and other fields, including George Gordon, Bismarck, Sun Yat-sen, Zhang Zongxiang, Song Meiling, Shao Lizi, Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Ruifen, Li Xianglan, Lin Daixiao, Merrill Streep, Li Na, Reagan and other important figures in various fields.
Special Session 5 Red Classic
Auction time is from 04/23 19:30 to 04/24 21:40
The red photography session (Lot 119-139) shows the development of video art with different objects as the core of leaders' political activities after the founding of New China, and presents a number of groups of photos and portraits of leaders, early Xinhua News Agency photographers, and early red photographers.
Session 6 Prints, Rare Books and Photography Books
Auction time is from 04/23 19:30 to 04/23 21:40
This special session (Lot 140-Lot 160) presents nineteenth-century Western Chinese prints, travelogues, Western Chinese literature and customs propaganda journals, academic works, scenery photo albums, and signature books of contemporary Japanese photography masters.
Session 7 The Art of Photography
Auction time is from 04/23 19:30 to 04/24 22:00
This special session (Lot 161-190) follows the side of photography as a means of artistic creation, introducing the works of Chinese and foreign modern and contemporary photography artists such as Lang Jingshan, Wu Zhongxing, Chen Fuli, Ansel Adams, Alfred Steigrid, Paul Strand, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Edward Weston, Andrei Kotez, Arnold Newman, Mulmut Newton, etc., in an attempt to present the unique visual aesthetic value and technical aesthetic value of photography in the context of art discipline.
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