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Tuesday November 24th, 2020
Tara Loader Wilkinson of the South China Morning Post recently interviewed Stephan Loewentheil, where they discussed the past, present, and future of the Loewentheil China Photography Collection, which has grown to include 20,000 photographs taken between 1850 and 1920. “Very …
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Thursday October 15th, 2020
A rare complete copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio sold for almost $10 million Wednesday, October 14, becoming the most expensive work of literature ever to appear at auction, according to Christie’s. After a six-minute bidding war between three telephone bidders, …
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Monday April 13th, 2020
Journalist Li Xiaohong featured the Loewentheil China Collection and Cornell University’s exhibition Lai Fong (ca. 1839 – 1890): Photographer of China in several prominent Chinese news outlets. Read the article
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Tuesday March 3rd, 2020
French photography journal L’Oeil de la Photographie (The Eye of Photography) featured the Loewentheil Collection’s two “landmark” exhibitions at Cornell University: Lai Fong (1839-1890): Photographer of China and Lai Fong and Thomas Child: Photographs of Late Qing Dynasty Chinese Street …
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Thursday February 6th, 2020
Fine Books & Collections Magazine featured the Loewentheil Collection’s concurrent Lai Fong exhibitions – Lai Fong (c. 1839-1890): Photographer of China and Lai Fong and Thomas Child: Photographs of Late Qing Dynasty Chinese Street Life – in its latest issue. Fine …
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Monday January 27th, 2020
Lai Fong (Ca. 1839-1890): Photographer of China Cornell University, Johnson Museum of Art February 27, 2020 – June 14, 2020 This exhibition introduces viewers to the work of Lai Fong, arguably the most ambitious and successful photographer of nineteenth-century China. …
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Friday April 5th, 2019
The Loewentheil China Photography Collection and its Beijing exhibition Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century were featured in That’s Shanghai, the Shanghai affiliate of China’s leading English-language publication. The magazine interviewed both Collection founder Stephan Loewentheil …
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Tuesday February 19th, 2019
Stephen Loewentheil discussed the benefits of giving rare books as gifts in a piece titled The Perfect Gift, part of a series of articles on Leadership Strategy. Loewentheil recounted his work with past Presidents of the United States to source rare books and …
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Monday February 11th, 2019
“The photographs all belong to the Loewentheil Collection, which is the largest, rarest, and said to be the most valuable of its kind in the world.” – Liu Xin, China Global Television Network
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Saturday January 19th, 2019
Xinhua News Agency, China’s largest media organization, featured the Loewentheil Collection’s exhibition Vision and Reflection: Photographs of China in the 19th Century from the Loewentheil Collection in an article published January 19, 2019. Stephan Loewentheil, interviewed via email, stated that he was …