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Terry Bennett

Portrait of Terry   Bennett

Terry Bennett is a London-based expert on the history of photography in East and Southeast Asia, a writer and a collector of 19th- and 20th century photographs from Asia. His original focus was on Japan, and in 2007 he received the International Award from the Photographic Society of Japan for his research. 

He has published numerous books and articles, particularly in relation to photographers active in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and derivatively in Cambodia, Laos, Singapore and Siam. His work has been translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian, and Vietnamese.

In addition to his own website, Terry Bennett is developing his online Collection of Early Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Photographs [more than 31,000 original photos dating back from 1845 to 1955] on the platform Photographic Collections Network.

Publications

Books

  • [with Sir Hugh Cortazzi] Japan: Caught in Time, Garnet Publishing, 1995.
  • Early Japanese Images, Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 1996, 168 p. ISBN   
    9780804820295.
  • Korea: Caught in Time, Garnet Publishing, 1997, 144 p. [several reprints].
  • [with Gérard Bourgarel & David Collin] Pierre Joseph Rossier, Photographe, Pro F[as editor] Japan and  ribourg, 2006.
  • The Illustrated London News: Complete Record of the Opening and Modernizing of Japan 1853 – 1899, Global Oriental/​Brill, 2006, 394 p.
  • Photography in Japan 1853 – 1912, Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2006.
  • Old Japanese Photographs: Collectors’ Data Guide, London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd, 2006.
  • History of Photography in China 1842 – 1860, London: Bernard Quaritch Ldt., 2009.
  • History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861 – 1879, London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2010.
  • [as editor] Japan and The Graphic: Complete Record of Events-1870 – 1899, Global Oriental, 2012, 404 p. ISBN 9781906876517. 
  • History of Photography in China: Chinese Photographers 1844 – 1879, London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 2013.
  • Early Photography in Vietnam, London, Renaissance Books, 2020, 416 p. ISBN 9781912961047. | VN Buổi Đầu Nhiếp Ảnh Việt Nam, trsl. by Duong Manh Hung, Phương Nam Books, 2021, 501 p. ASIN B0DM4QWSG4. 

Articles

  • “The Early Photographers: Photographing Japan 1860s – 1890s,” Japan Digest, 1991.
  • “Early Japanese Images of Nineteenth-Century Japan,” Japan Society Proceedings 126, 1995.
  • “Early Photographic Images of Japan,” The PhotoHistorian, 1996.
  • [with S.Dobson] ​“The Sentaro Daguerreotype: A New Episode in Japanese Photo-History Discovered”,The PhotoHistorian, 1997.
  • [with S.Dobson] ​“The First British Photographer in Japan: William Nassau Jocelyn and the Elgin Mission of 1858,”, The PhotoHistorian, 1998.
  • “Photography in Korea, The Hermit Kingdom,”, The Historian, Summer 1998.
  • “Herbert George Ponting, 1870 – 1935: Photographer, Explorer, Inventor,” Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits 4, 2002.
  • “The Search For Rossier: Early Photographer of China and Japan,” The PhotoHistorian, 2004.
  • “Meiji Japan Through the Eyes of the Illustrated London News,” Japan Society Proceedings 142, 2004.
  • “China,” in John Hannavy’s Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, New York: Routledge, 2008.
  • “Korea,” in John Hannavy’s Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, New York: Routledge, 2008.
  • “Japanese Photography from Daguerreotypes to Souvenir Albums”, in Exhibition Catalogue: Koshashin: The Hall Collection of 19th Century Photographs of Japan, Art Gallery of Alberta, April 4 — June 7, 2009. ISBN 9780889501515.
  • “Pierre Joseph Rossier — Pioneer Photographer in East Asia”, communication at the International Conference on Research of Old Japanese Photographs and International Exchange Depicted in Old Photographs, 16 – 17 Nov. 2007, Nagasaki University, Japan, 2009. Printed in Old Photography Study 3, Nagasaki University Library, May 2009.
  • “John Thomas Gulick (1832−1923) — Pioneer Photographer in Japan”, Trans-Asia Photography Review 1, no. 2, Spring 2011.
  • “An Attempt at Classification”, in Exhibition Catalogue: Felice Beato Photographer in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Selections from the Tom Burnett Collection, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire October 29 to 12 December 2011, 2011.
  • “Shimooka Renjo and the Mystery G.A.B. Stereoview Series”, Stereo World, January/​February, Vol 39, No. 4, 2014.
  • “Early Photography in China – Object, Identity, Motivation and the Commercial Imperative”, in Exhibition Catalogue: The Dimension of Civilization, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, 2014.
  • “Corée”, in Jérôme Ghesquière’s  La Photographie Ancienne En Asie, Paris: Nouvelles Editions Scala, 2016. 
  • “The Early Years of Photography in Beijing”, in Exhibition Catalogue: 180 Years of Photography in China, Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, 2019.
  • “Early Photography in Vietnam”, The Classic, 2020. [online]
  • “History of Photography in China: New Discoveries and Research”, The Classic, 2021 [online].  
  • “Itier and the First Photographs of China”, Exhibition Catalogue: Power and Perspective Early Photography in China, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, 2021.
  • “Pierre Rossier (1829−1886)”, in Exhibition Catalogue: Mondes photographiques, histoires des débuts, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris, 2023.

Website

Photo-History Lectures

England, Canada, France, Japan, Switzerland, United States, China (Beijing, Dongguan, Yinchuan, Hong Kong & Shanghai) and Vietnam (Hanoi, Saigon).

Collections