last emperor P'u Yi & family
Photographer unknown at this time, but I'm searching online to find
out. This is a photo of a portrait I found in the Palace Museum of the forbidden City, Beijing. I really liked this portrait and
decided to mess around with it to give it a twist of my own.
here's the altered version.
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Mister V added this photo to his favorites. (85 months ago)
KALDERON (85 months ago | reply)
Beautiful
l8sunrise [deleted] (85 months ago | reply)
I LOVE these kinds of photos! There is so much history and unspoken stories to them!! LOVE IT!!!
thiooof (84 months ago | reply)
What a great portrait !
Faces and attitude are so strange here... and your work on it is the continuation !
Although it's different, it reminds me Freaks, the famous film of Tod Browning, especially the girl on the right, who doesn't seem normal.
Mr. Mark (84 months ago | reply)
ha! the girl on the right is actually his wife. I never heard of that film, but now I'm curious.
l8sunrise, I love these kinds of old portraits too. There's a quaility about them (or maybe it's actually a lack of a certain qulity) that you just don't see anymore. If you can find more portraits of P'u Yi, the last emperor (see link above), I think he has some really interesting images taken of him.
thiooof (84 months ago | reply)
Thanx Mr Mark ! Very interesting !
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KF 红相机 (82 months ago | reply)
actually pu yi's wife is chinese and was called Wan Rong. people in these old photos always looked a bit freaky, whether western or eastern! :) have you seen any pictures of the crimean war? everyone looked so strange with their overly bushy beards and eccentric clothing which weren't very photogenic! here's a better picture of wan rong (Elizabeth) and Pu yi (Henry)
www.flickr.com/photos/fisherman/7486450/
Mr. Mark (82 months ago | reply)
hm, that makes more sense to me, but then the records at the Imperial Palace museum have made a huge error in claiming she was Japanese! oh well. Thanks for that link by the way. some good stuff there.
KF 红相机 (82 months ago | reply)
blimy that is a big booboo! :D they could have meant the wife of pu yi's brother, who was indeed japanese. in fact i think he is wearing his cadet uniform there from when he studied in japan. the japanese matched him with a japanese girl in order to exert more control over the imperial house- setting them up for the puppet regime in manchukuo during the war.
Mr. Mark (82 months ago | reply)
aaaahhh, thanks again. I think it may have been me who made the mistake when reading the info then. I forget now, but that's probably what they said, that it was his brother's wife. I do remember reading the reason for it, just as you described. thanks for that correction.
:O)
Kyuuri Chef added this photo to their favorites. (57 months ago)
falcoc29 (56 months ago | reply)
Krasnyi Fotoapparat this photo is not "freaky" you asshole!
KF 红相机 (56 months ago | reply)
lol what a bizzare comment :) are you a descendent falcoc29? :D
he also went onto my page and posted 'you are gay' comments all over the place lol
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