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The Great Wall of China : photographs by Chen Changfen / Anne Wilkes Tucker ; foreword by Jonathan D. Spence

By:

Chen, Changfen, 1941-

Contributor(s):

Tucker, Anne

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press in association with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, c2007Description: 150 p. : illus. ; 32 cmISBN:

9780300122473

Uniform titles:

Photography collection / colección de fotografía

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

951 CHA

Summary: Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen’s richly evocative photographs at once celebrate the remarkable series of building campaigns that produced the Wall and memorialize the thousands of conscripted laborers whose lives were sacrificed to its construction. One of the most striking features of Chen’s photographs is their unexpected variety of perspectives and moods, capturing the vicissitudes of weather, time, and human history that have acted upon it. By excluding the people, highways, factories, and modern buildings that encroach on and daily destroy sections of the Wall, however, Chen eliminates major aspects of the Wall’s present reality from his pictures.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	Photography	951 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non-fiction		026510

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Catalog of exhibition held Apr. 1-Aug. 12, 2007 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Includes bibliographical references and index

Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen’s richly evocative photographs at once celebrate the remarkable series of building campaigns that produced the Wall and memorialize the thousands of conscripted laborers whose lives were sacrificed to its construction. One of the most striking features of Chen’s photographs is their unexpected variety of perspectives and moods, capturing the vicissitudes of weather, time, and human history that have acted upon it. By excluding the people, highways, factories, and modern buildings that encroach on and daily destroy sections of the Wall, however, Chen eliminates major aspects of the Wall’s present reality from his pictures.

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