When I entered the room, I found a large number of ceramics on display. Nowadays, there are well-known western ceramic manufacturers such as Meissen and Wedgwood, but the technology originally originated in China. Before ceramics were produced in the West, royalty and aristocrats imported ceramics from China. Therefore, the English word “china” came to refer not only to the country of China, but also to the ceramics themselves.
If you read the descriptions accompanying the exhibits, you can tell how old each piece is. But when it came to the merits and demerits of the pieces, I had no idea. As I looked around for a while, my interest shifted from the ceramics themselves to the people who were looking at them.
As I looked at the people standing in front of the exhibits, some of them seemed as uninterested as I was, while others were deeply interested. The woman in the photo stood filling the space between them. She is looking at the ceramics with an expression that is somewhere in the middle of neither. Neither too enthusiastic nor too indifferent. This ambiguity seemed to fit in perfectly with this quiet space.
May 2017 PEOPLE TAIWAN | |
CHIAYI MUSEUM WOMAN |
No
10144
Shooting Date
Sep 2016
Posted On
May 16, 2017
Modified On
December 6, 2024
Place
Chiayi, Taiwan
Genre
Street Photography
Camera
SONY ALPHA 7R II
Lens
SONNAR T* FE 55MM F1.8 ZA