有理论家认为,历史可以分为两个部分:有照片的历史和没有照片的历史。按照中国摄影史的通行说法,中国摄影的历史是从近代第一次鸦片战争之后,由法国贸易代表于1944年在澳门和广州拍摄开始的,广东是中国摄影的策源地①。从这个时候开始,中国近代历史有了可以依靠的具体图像。中国摄影在此意义上,与中国近代史同步。广西作为与广东相邻的省区,是摄影技术传播的腹地,研究广西早期摄影史对认识广西近 Some theorists think that history can be divided into two parts: a history of photographs and a history of no photography. According to the popular Chinese history of photography, the history of Chinese photography began with the trade representative of France in Macao and Guangzhou in 1944 after the first Opium War in modern China. Guangdong was the source of Chinese photography. From this moment onwards, China’s modern history has concrete images that it can rely on. In this sense, Chinese photography is in synch with modern Chinese history. As a province adjacent to Guangdong, Guangxi is the hinterland of the dissemination of photographic techniques. It is of great significance to study Guangxi’s early history of photography in understanding Guangxi