12 Nov 2008

Bucklin China Archive - Looking at China in 1924
www.bucklinchinaarchive.com, Auburndale, MA, US
Self-description:
"In 1923, Harold Bucklin took his family on a remarkable journey from Providence, Rhode Island to Shanghai, China, where he produced an exquisite body of work of large format photographs of Pre-Revolutionary China using a Graflex camera. [...]
This is a Bucklin Family project. [...] Harold Bucklin is the man who took these photographs in 1923 and 1924. He took this year-long journey with his wife and 2-year-old son, to serve as Visiting Professor of Sociology at Shanghai College as part of a program at Brown University, where he was Assistant Professor of Sociology. Hazel Bucklin was Harold's wife. She possessed an extraordinary gift as a writer, as evidenced in her diary. [...] The son of Harold and Hazel, Don [Donald - ed.] was 2 years old when he accompanied his parents on this trip. He has been the driving force behind salvaging and preserving these images for the world to see. [...] Hope Bucklin is Donald's wife of 55 years and has been a full collaborator in this preservation project and has also done some of the more tedious tasks such as transcribing Hazel's diary, numbering close to 1000 photographs and cross-referencing the negatives."
Site contents:
* Take The Tour; * Harold's Photography; * Photo Essays (Yokohama Earthquake, Through the Porthole, Transportation, Funeral Processions, The Landmakers, The Garden Bridge, Street Scenes, Carrying Sticks, China Faces, Using the Graflex, Harold's Hat); * Exhibitions; * About Us; * Contact Us; * Order Prints.
[The Bucklin China Archive is now listed in the online index of "Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. [coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html - ed.]
URL http://www.bucklinchinaarchive.com/index2.php
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bucklinchinaarchive.com/index2.php
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
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