Sze Tsung Leong: History Images - Tsung Leong Sze; Shore Stephen
KORTE INHOUD
The photographs in the series "History Images" are of histories, in the form of cities in China, either being destroyed or created at this juncture in time. They are of past histories, in the form of traditional buildings and neighborhoods, urban fabrics, and natural landscapes, in the process of being erased.
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2006Uitgever: Steidl Verlag144 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 280x340ISBN-10: 3865212743ISBN-13: 9783865212740Koop dit boek tweedehands
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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 u...
