Piled Stone Mountain Near Sing Chang
Lai Fong
ca. 1869
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 8 1/8 × 11 5/16 in. (20.7 × 28.7 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.494.17
Tags
LandscapesMountains
About the Artist
Lai Fong · 1839–1890
Lai Fong, also known as Lai Afong (賴阿芳), emerged as the pre-eminent Chinese photographer of the nineteenth century, born around 1839 in Gaoming, Guangdong province, and dying in Hong Kong on April 19, 1890. Fleeing the devastation of the Taiping Rebellion in the 1850s, he arrived in British-controlled Hong Kong as a refugee amid a turbulent era of imperial decline and foreign incursions. By 1859, ...