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Guest Editor's Introduction

How does one place a photograph like the one featured on the cover of this special issue, Zhu Shouren’s “Qu jing” (“Picture Taking”)? What does it represent? What does its surface show? With what pictorial, discursive, spatial, and material contexts does the photograph engage, and what conditions does it create? What traces can be gleaned of the material conditions of its production? What kinds of knowledge are (or can be) produced through the materiality of this photograph? Or, rather, what kinds of knowledge did the photographer think he was producing, what kinds of knowledge might the photographer’s audiences have produced through their consumption of it, and what kinds of knowledge can we produce in the present through our engagement with it? This photograph appeared in the July 1932 issue of one of the most prominent and lavishly produced art photography publications of the day