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PUBLISHER
Blue Kingfisher

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 9 in. / 236 pgs / 60 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
No longer our product

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 120   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9789889901516 TRADE
List Price: $30.00 CAD $35.00

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Not available

TERRITORY
NA LA ASIA AU/NZ

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Xu Yong: Backdrops and Backdrops

Edited by He Hao. Interviews by Britta Erickson, Pi Li.

The work that first brought the contemporary Chinese photographer Xu Yong to the attention of the international art world was 101 Hutong Portraits, a book-length collection of traditional Beijing street scenes. In Backdrop, Xu Yong collects two bodies of "souvenir" photographs--one taken in Tiananmen Square and the other in front of Shanghai's super-modern Oriental Pearl Tower. Because of the way that Xu Yong lights and frames his photographs, at first glance one can hardly tell if the cultural landmark in the background of each picture is an actual architectural monument or a backdrop screen from a commercial photography studio. Indeed the settings are real. And the people that this rising star captures--including children, teenagers, young sweethearts, married couples, mothers and sons, middle-aged tourists, multi-generational families and groups--offer riveting psychological and sociological studies of modern Chinese culture. Often enigmatic, they have a rare, magnetic pull that keeps you looking.
Xu Yong: Backdrops and Backdrops

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Xu Yong: This Face

XU YONG: THIS FACE

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775750967
USD $55.00
| CAD $75

Pub Date: 10/12/2021
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