Department of Photography and Digital Imaging
Director: Qiwu Liu, Ph.D.
Director: Qiwu Liu, Ph.D.
ADI's Department of Photography and Digital Imaging (DPDI) is responsible for photography and imaging related projects. The Department focuses on using traditional and modern cutting-edge digital photography, printmaking, and digital media to support ADI's main mission to help advance new and evolving art history theories and research.
Using traditional photography and modern digital media, ADI helps new and emerging artists, educators, art historians, and researchers develop photography and imaging strategies and create, characterize, and archive digital portfolios. Since its founding, ADI has taken on various art photography and digital imaging projects and has documented and archived paintings, drawings, sculptures, historical artifacts, as well as photography artworks. ADI also provides graphic design, computer imaging, printmaking, and archiving consultation to help researchers develop digital strategies to access, store, and retrieve art images and digital prints.
Current Project:
1) The China Trade Paintings Digital Images. ADI recently completed this project and photographed its collection of China Trade Paintings for an exhibition of the digital prints in Harbin, China.
2) ADI is also conducting an in-depth study of Philo Norton McGiffin, the first American to command a modern battleship in Wartime China in the late 1880s. The project examines historical documents, including historical archives, photos, and images in this research project
Publications:
Zhang, Xiuhe, Drifting History, a special edition of Photography－New Vision published in connection with the China Trade Painting Exhibition, Harbin， China， December 2014.
Using traditional photography and modern digital media, ADI helps new and emerging artists, educators, art historians, and researchers develop photography and imaging strategies and create, characterize, and archive digital portfolios. Since its founding, ADI has taken on various art photography and digital imaging projects and has documented and archived paintings, drawings, sculptures, historical artifacts, as well as photography artworks. ADI also provides graphic design, computer imaging, printmaking, and archiving consultation to help researchers develop digital strategies to access, store, and retrieve art images and digital prints.
Current Project:
1) The China Trade Paintings Digital Images. ADI recently completed this project and photographed its collection of China Trade Paintings for an exhibition of the digital prints in Harbin, China.
2) ADI is also conducting an in-depth study of Philo Norton McGiffin, the first American to command a modern battleship in Wartime China in the late 1880s. The project examines historical documents, including historical archives, photos, and images in this research project
Publications:
Zhang, Xiuhe, Drifting History, a special edition of Photography－New Vision published in connection with the China Trade Painting Exhibition, Harbin， China， December 2014.