Min Chin with a camera, Northern Hot Springs, 1940

Min Chin with a camera, Northern Hot Springs, 1940

Collection

Fu Bingchang

Identifier

Fu-n258

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Fu-n258.  Min Chin is holding a Voigtländer 'Superb' camera, probably owned by Fu. This twin lens reflex camera, with a unique parallax correction device, was made by Voigtländer and Sohn (Braunschweig). It used 120 film, making negatives 2.25 inches (57mm) square. The camera was introduced in 1933. Northern Hot Springs Park (Pei-wan-chuan Park; Beiquan), near Pei-pai (Beibei), 30km north of Chungking (Chongqing).  See also Fu-n296, Fu01-025, Fu02-051 and Fu04-005.

Location

Beibei

Date

Monday 12 February 1940

Photographer

Fu Bingchang

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

Collection of C. H. Foo and Y. W. Foo