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Xu Yong

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays

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Xu Yong: 18% Gray / My Friends

KERBER VERLAG

Text by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky.

Yong's technical intervention between camera and lens produces blurry, hazy images of his family and his home, evocative of the nostalgic past

Hbk, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 168 pgs / 64 color. | 3/31/2026 | Awaiting stock
$60.00

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Xu Yong: Hutong 101 Photos

KERBER

Edited by Xu Yong, He Hao. Text by Xu Yong.

An elegiac tribute to the old alleyways of Beijing, revealing both their poetic beauty and the sadness surrounding their demise

Clth, 9.25 x 12 in. / 160 pgs / 101 duotone. | 4/15/2025 | Out of stock
$60.00

Xu Yong: 18% Gray / My Friends

Published by Kerber Verlag.
Text by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky.

For his series 18% Gray (2009) and My Friends (2020), photographer Xu Yong (born 1954) constructed a metal ring placed between camera and lens, thus creating blurred and haunting images of his close friends and important places from his memories.

PUBLISHER
Kerber Verlag

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 168 pgs / 64 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/31/2026
Forthcoming

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2026 p. 147

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783735610669 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CAD $93.00

AVAILABILITY
Awaiting stock

STATUS: Forthcoming | 3/31/2026

This title is not yet published in the U.S. To pre-order or receive notice when the book is available, please email orders @ artbook.com

Xu Yong: Hutong 101 Photos

Published by Kerber.
Edited by Xu Yong, He Hao. Text by Xu Yong.

In Hutong 101 Photos, Xu Yong (born 1954) traces the history of the traditional residential district of Beijing, with its centuries-old buildings and myriad narrow alleyways known as "Hutongs." Many of these neighborhoods have since fallen victim to radical redevelopment and have been demolished.

PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.25 x 12 in. / 160 pgs / 101 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/15/2025
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2025 p. 157

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783735609816 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CAD $90.00

AVAILABILITY
Out of stock

STATUS: Out of stock

Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.

Xu 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.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

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

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/12/2021
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 51

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775750967 FLAT40
List Price: $55.00 CAD $75.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

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.

PUBLISHER
Blue Kingfisher

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

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/1/2007
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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Xu Yong

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays

Xu Yong: 18% Gray / My Friends

KERBER VERLAG

Text by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky.

Yong's technical intervention between camera and lens produces blurry, hazy images of his family and his home, evocative of the nostalgic past

Xu Yong: Hutong 101 Photos

KERBER

Edited by Xu Yong, He Hao. Text by Xu Yong.

An elegiac tribute to the old alleyways of Beijing, revealing both their poetic beauty and the sadness surrounding their demise

Xu Yong: 18% Gray / My Friends

Published by Kerber Verlag.Text by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky.

PUBLISHER Kerber Verlag

Xu Yong: Hutong 101 Photos

Published by Kerber.Edited by Xu Yong, He Hao. Text by Xu Yong.

PUBLISHER Kerber

Xu Yong: This Face

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

PUBLISHER Hatje Cantz

Xu Yong: Backdrops and Backdrops

Published by Blue Kingfisher.Edited by He Hao. Interviews by Britta Erickson, Pi Li.

PUBLISHER Blue Kingfisher

Published by Kerber Verlag.
Text by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky.

PUBLISHER
Kerber Verlag

Published by Kerber.
Edited by Xu Yong, He Hao. Text by Xu Yong.

PUBLISHER
Kerber

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

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

Published by Blue Kingfisher.
Edited by He Hao. Interviews by Britta Erickson, Pi Li.

PUBLISHER
Blue Kingfisher