In more than 500 photographs, many published here for the first time, the volume records Vietnam’s capture and occupation by the French, the wide-ranging ethnicities and cultures of Vietnam, the country’s fierce resistance to foreign rule, leading to the reassertion of its own identity and subsequent independence.
Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Colonization and the Camera, Chapter 1 The Earliest Photographs of Vietnam and the Vietnamese, Chapter 2 Commercial Studios (1860s-1870s), Chapter 3 Émile Gsell (1838–1879):Celebrated Photographer of Nineteenth-Century Vietnam, Chapter 4 Commercial Studios (1880s-1890s), Chapter 5 Charles-Édouard Hocquard (1853–1911): Photographer of the 1884-5 SinoFrench War Chapter 6 Selection of Twentieth-Century Photographers, Chronology of Photography in Vietnam (1845-1954), Appendix 1 Index of Photographers and Studios in Vietnam (1845-1954), Appendix 2 Number Lists: Raphael Moreau and Émile Gsell, Appendix 3 Postcards, Appendix 4 Royal Photographic Portraits, Appendix 5 Cartes de Visite and Cabinet Cards, Appendix 6 1863 Vietnamese Embassy to France, Photographic Terms, Select Bibliography
