名称: Street Gathering in Beijing/北京街头聚会
类别: Glass Slides/玻璃底片（手工上色）
日期: 1900s
尺寸: 9x11cm

名称: Camel Caravan Entering Beijing/进北京骆驼队
类别: Gelatin Silver Print/银盐照片（手工上色）
日期: 1920s
尺寸: 18x24cm 

名称: Street Writing Service/街道代笔
类别: Gelatin Silver Print/银盐照片（手工上色）
日期: 1920s
尺寸: 18x24cm 

名称: Unexpected Meeting/北京郊外巧遇 
类别: Collodion Printing/火棉胶照片
日期: 1910s
尺寸: 18x24cm 


C.E. Le Munyon (July 4, 1860 – April 21, 1929) was born in Washington State, USA. Young, talented, and full of energy, he came to Beijing in 1900 as a military photographer with the American contingent of the Eight-Nation Alliance, traveling from the Philippines. His photographs document the Eight-Nation Alliance’s entry into Beijing and its aftermath. Afterward, he returned to the Philippines.

Le Munyon disliked running a studio for profit, preferring to photograph ordinary people’s daily lives outdoors. However, for livelihood, he established a studio in Hong Kong around 1902, primarily dealing in photographic equipment imported from New York. Between 1904 and 1905, he worked in Shanghai, then traveled to Tianjin, Beijing, and the Russian Far East, finally settling in Beijing in 1905, where he remained until his death in 1929.

In 1909, he photographed the funeral of Empress Dowager Cixi and the cornerstone-laying ceremony of Peking Union Medical College Hospital. During this period, he also documented the daily lives of many old Beijing residents. Le Munyon was a tragic figure—romantic to a fault, he pursued art passionately while neglecting his financial foundation, leading to perpetual financial difficulties and debts owed to friends until his death. His major works are now held in the National Museum of Ethnology in the Netherlands.

雷尼诺恩/C.E. Le Munyon（1860年7月4日-1929年4月21日）出生于美国华盛顿州，年轻有为，精力充沛。​​​​1900年作为随军摄影与八国联军的美国部队从菲律宾来到北京，八国联军进京及之后都有他的照片留存，随后他返回菲律宾。他不喜欢开影楼赚钱，喜欢室外拍摄普通人日常生活，但为了生计他在1902年前后来香港开设照相馆主要经营从纽约进口的照相器材。1904到上海，再到天津、北京、俄国的远东，1905年他回北京定居直至1929年辞世。1909年他拍摄了慈禧葬礼以及北京协和医院奠基礼，这期间他也拍摄制作大量老北京人的日常生活。雷尼诺恩是一位悲剧性的人物，一生过于浪漫，在追求艺术的道路上高歌猛进，而忽略经济基础，导致他入不敷出，至死还欠朋友的债务，他的主要作品收藏于荷兰国立民族学博物馆。>>返回>>