Richard K. Kent
Writing | Photography
Scholarly Essays (Related to Photography)
“The Lo Archive's Place in Documentary, Expeditionary, and Art Photography during China's Republican Period” (co-authored with Dora C. Y. Ching). In Visualizing Dunhuang: Seeing, Studying, and Conserving the Caves. Ed. Dora C. Y. Ching. Princeton: P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, 2021: 23-67. The essay also appears in Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves, Vol. IX. Ed. Dora C. Y. Ching. Princeton:
P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, 2021.
“序言” (“Preface to Chen Shen Guangshe jishi”), trans. Shen Yang 沈阳. In 陈申 (Chen Shen), 光社纪事 (A Record of the Light Society). Beijing: Zhongguo minzu yishu shexingshe, 2017 (bilingual): 5-7 (Chinese); 9-12 (English).
“Inscribed Photographic Portraits: Commemoration and Self-Fashioning in Republican-Period China.” In Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan. Ed. Luke Gartlan and Roberta Wue. London: Routledge, 2017: 117-139.
“Flying Eagle (Feiying): Jin Shisheng and the Cause of Photography in 1930s China” (飛鹰：金石声和三十年代的中国摄影事业). In陈迹: 金石声与现代中国摄影 (Relics: Jin Shisheng and Modern Chinese Photography). Ed. Jin Hua. Shanghai: Tongji University Press, 2016 (bilingual): 366-383.
“Early Twentieth-Century Art Photography in China: Adopting, Domesticating, and Embracing the Foreign,” Trans-Asia Photography Review, vol. 3, issue 2 (Spring 2013), 34 pp. (A peer reviewed electronic journal archived by the University of Michigan.) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/t/tap/7977573.0003.204?view=text;rgn=main
“Fine Art Amateur Photography in Republican Period Shanghai: From Pictorialism to Modernism.” In Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong. Ed. Dora C. Y. Ching and Jerome Silbergeld. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011: 849-874.
“Reclaiming Documentary Photography.” In Jerome Silbergeld, Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography. New York: China Institute, 2009: 18-35.