International Photography (4,094)

The base of the stupa of the Yellow Temple was decorated with marble panels illustrating the life of the Buddha. Unfortunately it has been badly defaced over the years Hedda MORRISON No title (Walls and moat of the Forbidden City) Hedda MORRISON The great white dagoba of Pei Hai (North Lake) which was built in 1651 to commemorate the first visit of the Dalai Lama to Peking Hedda MORRISON No title (Temple statue) Hedda MORRISON No title (Boy in street) Hedda MORRISON Beggar woman and her child. Over the years I often saw her and she was nearly always pregnant Hedda MORRISON No title (Boy at street market) Hedda MORRISON No title (Many fortune-sellers were blind and roamed the streets beating a small hand-gong to advertise their presence) Hedda MORRISON The cut-out maker worked by eye and memory, cutting several sheets of paper at one time Hedda MORRISON Itinerant refreshment stall for children. Wherever there might be a demand, there would be some specialist hawker filling the needs of even the smallest customer Hedda MORRISON No title Hedda MORRISON Watering radishes by hand Hedda MORRISON Planting out rice seedlings Hedda MORRISON Duck farm below the city wall Hedda MORRISON The proprietor of Niu Jou Wan, a grilled beef restaurant Hedda MORRISON Seamstresses sewing characters on to cloth banners. Hedda MORRISON Repairing a painting prior to remounting, work calling for the most exacting skills Hedda MORRISON The New Year Fair at Liu Li Ch'ang was of special importance for the sale of paintings and other works of art Hedda MORRISON No title (Street procession with people carrying puppets) Hedda MORRISON The approach to Lu Kou Ch'iao (the Marco Polo Bridge) Hedda MORRISON Boy in a Mongol hat. This was a common and very necessary form of headwear in the bitter cold of the north China winter Hedda MORRISON The reed toy-maker, who would make his appearance in the summer and weave fresh reeds into a variety of wonderful shapes while you watched Hedda MORRISON No title (Street vendors) Hedda MORRISON No title (The Forbidden City wall and moat) Hedda MORRISON No title (Pavilions at the northern end of Pei Hai) Hedda MORRISON Photogenic Lotte JACOBI Hua-piao outside T'ien An Men. There was one pair of these pillars outside and one pair inside T'ien An Men, as a reminder to the emperor to walk in the path of virtue Hedda MORRISON Detail of glazed tilework by Pei Hai Hedda MORRISON One of four huge gilt-bronze bowls on the terrace (of T'ai Ho Tien, in the Forbidden City) Hedda MORRISON Roof figures by Pei Hai commemorating the execution of a cruel tyrant in the year 283 B.C. Hedda MORRISON