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Xu Yong

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Xu Yong: This Face
HATJE CANTZ

An intimate and controversial portrait of a Chinese sex worker

Hbk, 6 x 7.75 in. / 568 pgs / 500 color. | 10/12/2021 | Out of stock
$55.00



Xu Yong: Backdrops and Backdrops
BLUE KINGFISHER

Paperback, 9.5 x 9 in. / 236 pgs / 60 color. | 4/1/2007 | Not available
$30.00



Xu Yong: This FaceXu Yong: This Face

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Catherine Cheng. Text by Zi U.

For this series—banned in China—photographer Xu Yong (born 1954) took 500 close-up portraits of Zi U, a sex worker in Beijing, recording the transformations of her features over the course of her working days.



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Hatje Cantz

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Hardcover, 6 x 7.75 in. / 568 pgs / 500 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 51   

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ISBN 9783775750967 FLAT40
List Price: $55.00 CAD $75.00

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Xu Yong: Backdrops and Backdrops

Published by Blue Kingfisher.
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.

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Blue Kingfisher

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

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Catalog: SPRING 2007 p. 120   

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ISBN 9789889901516 TRADE
List Price: $30.00 CAD $35.00

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