Yiheyuan, Beijing, China
Lois Conner, Yiheyuan, Beijing, China, 1984, platinum print, Bequest of Fae Heath Batten, © unknown, research required, 1997.58.36
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- Title
Yiheyuan, Beijing, China
- Related Titles
display title: Beijing, China: Yiheyuan
- Artist
- Date
1984
- Medium
platinum print
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Bequest of Fae Heath Batten
- Accession Number
1997.58.36
- Copyright
© unknown, research required
- Terms
In the early 1980s, Lois Conner discovered the early-twentieth-century banquet camera, so named for the elongated rectangular format that made it possible to photograph large groups at dinner banquets. This unusual framework, reminiscent of traditional Chinese scroll paintings, prompted Conner to consider the landscape as a visual text meant to be experienced in sections over time rather than as a single view. Conner’s 7 x 17-inch photographs, created in China, are extended narratives that encourage a visual journey through and around each work.
- Exhibitions
2002 Recent Acquisitions - Photography Portland Art Museum
2011 One Woman’s Legacy: Selections from the Fae Heath Batten Photography Bequest Portland Art Museum
