John Thomson’s Photographs Along the River Min

A Lasting Memento: John Thomson’s Photographs Along the River Min

A Lasting Memento: John Thomson’s Photographs Along the River Min

Voyage into 19th-century China through one of PEM’s photographic treasures, John Thomson’s album Foochow and the River Min. This intimate exhibition features more than 40 striking landscapes, city views and portrait studies that Thomson captured as he traveled in the southeastern Fujian province. Photographs by contemporary artist Luo Dan, who was inspired by Thomson to undertake a similar journey in…