| Liu Zheng: Dream Shock Contributor(s): Zheng, Liu (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 3958292674 ISBN-13: 9783958292673 Publisher: Steidl OUR PRICE: $49.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2025 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of January 21, 2025 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) |
| Physical Information: 108 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Liu Zheng (born 1969) is one of the few Chinese photographers whose work has reached the West. The exhibition of his extensive series The Chinese at ICP in New York in 2004 and the accompanying publication indicated he was working on the borders between the documentary tradition and the extended portrait school of August Sander. His background on the Workers' Daily suggests his grounding as a photojournalist. Yet Liu Zheng's vision does not echo the common view of China, characterized by anonymity in the sheer mass of the population, or by the momentum of industry. Frequently the subjects of his portraits are those on the fringes of Chinese society. Dream Shock brings us to another space that exists in the mind itself. Some of the characters, such as a Peking Opera singer, may be half-familiar, but the historical references to occupation and the sexual explicitness take us into unprecedented territory. |