China Obscura - Mark Leong
KORTE INHOUD
Travelling by chance to mainland China just a day after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, young Chinese-American photographer Mark Leong decided to stay and explore in photos the fascinating contradictions of a rapidly-changing, but still very traditional, Chinese society. Living in Beijing and travelling across China for the past fifteen years, he has captured images that astonish both with their power and with the access that he has found to both official and underground Chinese society: a young graffiti artist named 'AK-47' plies his trade, a government official tends to an abandoned park, teenage rollerbladers hope for Western corporate sponsorship, a nervous stockbroker with his black-market handgun, migrant workers sleeping in train stations, police officers barricading the U.S. Embassy against street demonstrators, a drug addict snorting heroin off a bill bearing the image of Chairman Mao. In more than 150 photographs (with illuminating captions at the back), along with an introduction by the photogr...
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2005Uitgever: Chronicle Books224 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 150x230ISBN-10: 0811844617ISBN-13: 9780811844611Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original pictorial boards, illustrated with numerous (full page) b/w photographs, unpaged, oblong (circa 16x23.5cm). [Auteur: Leong, Mark (photographs) & Yang Lian (foreword) & Peter Hessler (afterword)] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: San Francisco : Chronicle Books] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: China obscura]
