The First Exposure of the Ancient Eastern Country | Photography Friend

On December 12, 1843, not long after the daguerreotype process was introduced in France, Alphonse Eugène Jules Itier, a photographer representing the visiting trade mission to China, set off on a journey across thousands of miles to China with this new invention. He thus became one of the earliest photographers to capture images of China. Let's take a look at how he used photography to open the doors of a China that had been closed for a thousand years.