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james howe

1946

james howe
Modern
Modern

james howe

Born 1946

wong tung jim, a.s.c. and hud (1963). he was selected as one of the ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the international cinematographers guild. on may 25, 2018, google honored howe with a doodle on its homepage. howe was born wong tung jim in taishan, canton province, china in 1899. his father wong howe moved to america that year to work on the northern pacific railway and in 1904 sent for his family. the howes settled in pasco, washington, where they owned a general store. a brownie camera, said to have been bought at pasco drug (a now-closed city landmark)…

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An Interactive Constellation

The Subject Atlas

A chart of james howe's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.

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Spokes — Subject

Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.

Rings — Career Period

Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.

Threads — Shared Context

Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.