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Sze Tsung Leong : History Images
by Christopher Phillips ; Sze Leong ; Norman Bryson
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 3865212743
- ISBN 13
- 9783865212740
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Steidl Dap 2006 2006. Hardcover, 144 pages, ENG, 350 x 285 mm, book is in good condition, with photo's in clear colours, . ISBN 9783865212740. Since 2002, Sze Tsung Leong has been photographing the dramatic changes that are transforming the cities of China, revealing a process that begins with the destruction of traditional neighborhoods and ends in the mass construction of new urban environments. He travels with a large-format view camera, visiting cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Nanjing, Pingyao and Xiamen, and the resulting highly detailed images portray the immense scale of the upheaval and of the contradictions created by its uncertain and fluctuating environment. Traditional buildings in the process of being demolished are juxtaposed against the glass walls that are about to replace them; seemingly abandoned buildings on the verge of destruction, or in the midst of construction, reveal clues of habitation; historic areas survive as a result of neglect and isolation rather than intent; and obscured in the midst of expansive, culturally ambivalent spaces, small Chinese script on indistinct signs serves as the only hint that these environments are in China. Collectively, the photographs in History Images capture the erasure and subsequent absence of history, and the moment of anticipation for the new future to unfold; it is an urban reality caught in the tenuous period after the end of one history and at the beginning of another.
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- ERIK TONEN BOOKSELLER
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Sze Tsung Leong : History Images
- Author
- Christopher Phillips ; Sze Leong ; Norman Bryson
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 3865212743
- ISBN 13
- 9783865212740
- Publisher
- Steidl Dap 2006 2006
- Place of Publication
- Gottingen
- This edition first published
- January 15, 2007
- Keywords
- , culture, histoire, livre, siècle Artiste peintre photo fotografie architectuur Mode Nostalgie/ Flemish art/ Vlaamse kunst keramiek antique antiek deco beeldhouwkunst beelden sculpturen Glas Art & Architecture schilderen Kunst Fotografie Ar
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