Paul Getty Museum's curator emeritus of photographs

Relying on primary sources

Kenneth Lapatin is associate curator in the Department of Antiquities at the J

She is curator of the exhibition A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography and has written about nineteenth-century photography

the late founder of New York’s New Museum

Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West Leonard Freed Paul Getty Museum's curator emeritusEdited by Petra ten Doesschate Chu and Ning Ding Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West examines how the contact between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East West divide. The essays in the volume reveal the extent to which images, artifacts, and natural specimens were traded and copied, and how these materials inflected both cultures visions of novelty