MAJOR HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF 19TH CENTURY HONG KONG & CHINA TO BE FEATURED IN EXHIBITION

Dennis George Crow, a specialist in sourcing old photographs of Asia, is returning to Hong Kong in October with a brand new collection of important historic photographs entitled “Historic Photographs of Hong Kong & China” which will be exhibited at Galerie E in Central.

The exhibition, Crow’s fifth in Hong Kong, features over 500 photographs of Hong Kong and China dating from the late 1850s – many of them are extremely rare. It has taken Crow almost five years to amass the material for the new exhibition and as a result, it has extreme significance and importance.

Says Crow, “The forthcoming exhibition is unique in that it contains rare historic photographs that were not available in my last visits to Hong Kong. Rarely seen works by major historic photography masters, such as John Thompson, Milton Miller, WP Floyd, Felice Beato, Thomas Child, William Saunders and others, will be featured this time.”

“It has become increasingly more difficult to find different and unusual photographs for the exhibition, “ he adds, “because all the photographs in the exhibition are original and printed during the date listed. There are no reproductions or reprints on display. No restoration has been done to any of the photographs."

A full detailed and illustrated catalogue will be published for the exhibition containing hitherto unpublished information about the source of the photographs – and the photographers themselves.

The exhibition, open from 10am to 7pm (Mon-Saturday) & 11am to 4pm (Sunday), will be held between October 22nd and 28th, at Galerie E, 7th Floor, AON China Building, 29 Queen’s Road Central. Tel: 2845-6228. Entry is free of charge.

NOTES:

Dennis George Crow grew up in Hong Kong and attended first the Peak School and later, King George V in Kowloon. He says Hong Kong was a vastly different place to the city it is these days.

After leaving for Los Angeles in 1962, he studied Chinese art at SOAS (the School of Asian and African Studies) in London, pursuing his love of art. “Even as a child I was fascinated by Chinese art. I grew up surrounded by it, my mother used to accompany visiting VIPs on art shopping trips when we would visit Cat Street in the days when it really was a thieves’ market,” he remembers.