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Friday September 23rd, 2016
The New York Times reported today on the Thomas Child exhibition of early Peking photographs from the Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection. The exhibition, running through October 24, is being held at the Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York …
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Thursday August 18th, 2016
Qing Dynasty Shanghai: The Photographs of William Saunders features a selection of 35 to 40 original 19th-century albumen silver prints, many hand-colored, by William Saunders from the Stephan Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection, the largest holding of late Qing …
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Thursday August 18th, 2016
The first exhibition in America of rare 19th-century photographs of Beijing by Thomas Child from the Stephan Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection. The famous bride and groom in Child’s wedding photograph, Zeng ji Fen and Nie ji Gui, were …
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Friday August 12th, 2016
China Daily features the Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection & its upcoming William Saunders exhibition in London. “The success of the show reflected the increasing global interest in China’s people and culture, as well as the interest of the …
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Thursday May 5th, 2016
American Photo this week features an interview with Jacob Loewentheil about his new book, The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger’s Revelations in Photography, just published by Skira Rizzoli. .
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Monday April 18th, 2016
Jacob Loewentheil’s newly published The Psychological Portrait: Marcel Sternberger’s Revelations in Photography is featured in New York Magazine’s The Cut. “’Psychological portraiture’ was, for Sternberger, portraiture as only the camera could make it,” Phillip Prodger (Head of Photographs, National Portrait …
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Wednesday December 23rd, 2015
Today the 19th Century Shop set a new record for a printed Hebrew book, paying $9.3 million for the celebrated Bomberg Babylonian Talmud. This is by far the most important set of this landmark work remaining in private hands. Art …
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Wednesday November 11th, 2015
The most valuable collection of early China photography in private hands, the Stephan Loewentheil Historical Photography of China Collection includes the greatest masterworks of China photography by the foremost photographers working in China in the nineteenth century and the first …
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Tuesday November 3rd, 2015
BBC covered the exhibition of Thomas Child’s photographs of Peking, made by Thomas Child in the 1870s and 1880s. The collection is exhibited in London’s Chinatown as part of Asian Art in London season. The BBC photo feature is here.
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Tuesday September 15th, 2015
An extensive collection of Thomas Child’s nineteenth-century photographs of Peking will be exhibited at the China Exchange in London, November 10-15, 2015. Details are available here. Thomas Child was the most prolific early photographer of Peking, and this is the …