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lifestyles and occupations. His studio portraits often featured props that signified the trade or social status of the subject, and the photographer exhibited particular interest in the clothing and hairstyles of the subjects. Although many of
Saunders' scenes of everyday Chinese life were posed due to limitations of photographic processes, they provide accurate reflections of life in 19th-century China, and contributed to the spreading of knowledge of Chinese customs and traditions throughout the West.
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Saunders created his photographs – some of the earliest of the city and its people – "at a critical time in
Chinese history; just as Shanghai was emerging as an international commercial city." Saunders' photographs offer an intimate view of the diverse inhabitants of Shanghai and their traditional
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Britain in 1832, and first travelled to China in 1860 as an engineer. He then returned to Britain, studied photography, and returned again to China with photographic equipment, where he opened one of Shanghai's first photography studios in January 1862. Located near the famous
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in the late 1880s, but continued to travel to China regularly. On a return trip to
Shanghai, he became unwell during the passage; his health continued to deteriorate upon arrival, and Saunders died in December 1892 of bronchitis at the age of sixty.
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Saunders' success was built upon the production of photographic albums of
Chinese landscapes and genre studies. A selection of William Saunders' photographs was published in an early series of 50 prints published before 1871 as a
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the first exhibition dedicated solely to
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William Saunders. Qing Dynasty Official. c. 1865. Hand-coloured albumen silver print. Source:
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William Saunders. Portrait of a Woman from Guangzhou. c. 1865. Albumen silver print. Source:
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William Saunders, Hand Carriage, c. 1865. Hand-coloured albumen silver print. Source:
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Qing Dynasty Shanghai: The Photographs of William Saunders,
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Portfolio of Sketches of Chinese Life and Character
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