Arnold Genthe 1869-1942

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Description

oversized, warm-toned, signed and annotated 'S. F.' by the photographer in ink on the image, matted, framed, circa 1896

Other prints of this image:

"The Chinese Question," Overland Monthly, October 1901, opposite p. 250

Arnold Genthe and Will Irwin, Pictures of Old Chinatown (New York, 1908), unpaginated

John Kuo Wei Tchen, Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown (New York, 1984), pl. 47

Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-1950 (The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), p. 71

Other prints with horizontal variant cropping:

Arnold Genthe, As I Remember (New York, 1936), opposite p. 35

Anthony W. Lee, Picturing Chinatown: Art and Orientalism in San Francisco (Berkeley, 2001), p. 119

John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs (The Museum of Modern Art, 1973), p. 55

Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography from Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection (Kansas City, 1999), p. 83

Prints of this image in this size format and vertical cropping are unusual. Typically, it is the horizontal view that is offered on the market.