Felice Beato—A Photographer on the Eastern Road

Somehow I missed this Beato exhibition that just took place, and is now finished, in Los Angeles at the John Paul Getty Museum. Beato of course was one of the earliest photographers of China who liked a bit of gore and was prolific and highly commercial. I wrote about him in some detail in my Through the Looking Glass book though I believe his final days are still shrouded in some mystery.

Anyway,there’s an essay looking at Beato’s body of work and the exhibition highlights in the latest online version of the China Heritage Quarterly.