Heinz von Perckhammer, Peking, 1928

Perckhammer (1895–1965) was a Tyrolean photographer best known for his Chinese nudes (now rather controversial) and Peking street scenes. He had been a Japanese prisoner or war captured in Tsingtao (Qingdao) in World War One. Both his Chinese nudes (mostly taken in Macao brothels) and Peking scenes books appeared in 1928. He moved to Berlin in the 1930s and was a photographer with the Waffen SS!