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Three-quarter portrait in a dim 1930s Shanghai parlor: young woman in a dark silk qipao with frog closures, Marcel-wave curls and deep red lips, leaning forward at a varnished table beside a black horn gramophone; yellowed lace curtains behind her with mottled window light; dust motes hanging in humid air, soft haze and fine scratches like aged celluloid; 50mm lens at f/2, ISO 400, focus on the near eye and lip line with gentle falloff into the gramophone and drapery; tungsten-balanced key skimming from camera right through lace for patterned shadow, faint bounce on the left, negative fill at the rear to keep the room dark; subdued green-cyan toning with warm skin highlights, high micro-contrast to resolve silk weave, patina on wood, and curtain lace; composed low and centered, slight forward cant, shallow depth and natural film grain.

Three-quarter portrait in a dim 1930s Shanghai parlor: young woman in a dark silk qipao with frog closures, Marcel-wave curls and deep red lips, leaning forward at a varnished table beside a black horn gramophone; yellowed lace curtains behind her with mottled window light; dust motes hanging in humid air, soft haze and fine scratches like aged celluloid; 50mm lens at f/2, ISO 400, focus on the near eye and lip line with gentle falloff into the gramophone and drapery; tungsten-balanced key skimming from camera right through lace for patterned shadow, faint bounce on the left, negative fill at the rear to keep the room dark; subdued green-cyan toning with warm skin highlights, high micro-contrast to resolve silk weave, patina on wood, and curtain lace; composed low and centered, slight forward cant, shallow depth and natural film grain.

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#aiart #blueskyart #digitalart #aicommunity #portraitphotography #oldshanghai #cheongsam #filmgrain #gramophone #moodylight

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Crowds watching a procession welcoming the Northern Expedition (Nationalist forces), Shanghai, 1927

Armstrong, William Collection
Ar04-168
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#上海 #shanghai #chinesehistory #oldshanghai #nationalism

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Bea Hutchinson sitting on a ladder harvesting apricots in the garden, 35 Tongshan Road, Hongkou, Shanghai

Hutchinson Family Collection
Hn06-186
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#gardening #childreninhistory #shanghai #oldshanghai #lifeinshanghai #historyinpictures #garden

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Shanghai 2005

#china #shanghai #oldshanghai #streetphotography

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Elizabeth Hutchinson inspecting a citrus fruit tree growing in a pot, 35 Tongshan Road, Hongkou, Shanghai, March, 1920

Hutchinson Family Collection
Hn03-187
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#shanghai #gardening #oldshanghai #Chinesehistory #oldchina #gardens

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Charles Hutchinson in the garden of 35 Tongshan Road, Hongkou, Shanghai, 1911-1912

Hutchinson Family
Hn01-078
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#fashion #garden #gardening #shanghaihistory #oldshanghai #shanghai #history #China #fashionhistory #leisure

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Rigging with signal flags on sailing ship, Shanghai

Rosholt, Malcolm Collection
Ro-n0512
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#sailing #sailingship #shanghai #oldshanghai #chinesehistory #oldchina #ships #maritime #historyphotographed

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Shanghai 2004

#china #shanghai #cityscape #architecture #oldshanghai

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