Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres is an Asian art historian and Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests include modern Chinese painting and photography, and Asian contemporary art with a special focus on visual culture in its global context. She is also a curator and exhibition planner who has worked with museums and intuitions around the world.
How can the destruction of an artifact also be an act of preservation?
Can a photograph be appreciated in the manner of a Chinese painting? "Father of Asian photography" Lang Jingshan asked this question nearly a century ago.