Photo Poetics by Shengqing Wu;

Author:Shengqing Wu;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT008010, Literary Criticism/Asian/Chinese, POE009010, Poetry/Asian/Chinese
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Published: 2020-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 5.14 Wang Dunqing, Photograph of the Spirit of Zhu Taoshan, Shanghai Manhua 8 (1936):14.

Photography is proclaimed to be quintessentially “a medium of the spirit.” 100 This assertion resonates in terms of photography as a medium based on an interplay of light and shadow, which lends itself to cultural uses of creating optical illusions or arresting the “spirit.” Spirit photography, as practiced in early Republican China, not only fanned lasting beliefs by interconnecting with and corresponding to sympathetic cosmology but also responded to overly determined rational interpretations of the world and the anxieties felt on various levels of modern developments. Deployed at the religious altar, photography, literally as “drawing with light” in its Greek etymological sense, became a novel medium and interface of reenchantment, inscribing “spiritual light” (lingguang) in an increasingly disenchanted modern world.

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