The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present.: Edited by Martin Parr and Wassink Lundgren

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T1 - The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present.

T2 - Edited by Martin Parr and Wassink Lundgren

AU - Parr, Martin

AU - Lundgren, Wassink

N1 - Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography; in addition to his work as a photographer, he is a renowned collector of photobooks, and the coauthor with Gerry Badger of The Photobook: A History, volumes I–III. He is a contributor and advisor to several other projects about the photobook, including The Latin American Photobook (Aperture, 2011). Parr is a member of Magnum Photos. WassinkLundgren is a collaboration between Dutch artists Thijs groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren. They have received several awards, including the Prix du Livre at Rencontres d’Arles for best contemporary photobook and the China Academy Award. Gu Zheng is a photographer, critic, historian, curator, and associate professor in the School of Journalism at Fudan University, Shanghai. He also serves as vice-director of that university’s Research Center for Visual Culture. Raymond Lum recently retired as librarian for the Western Languages Collection at Harvard- Yenching Library, where he also served as Curator of Historic Photographs. He is currently the book review editor for the online scholarly journal Trans-Asia Photography Review. Stephanie H. Tung is a PhD candidate at Princeton University. Prior to her studies at Princeton, she worked as a translator and junior curator for the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing. She is currently based in Shanghai as a Fulbright Scholar. Gerry Badger is a critic, architect, curator, and photographer. His published books include The Genius of Photography (2007); The Pleasures of Good Photographs (2010); and The Photobook: A History, volumes I–III, coauthored with Martin Parr

PY - 2015/5/1

Y1 - 2015/5/1

N2 - The Chinese Photobook reveals much about China itself, and the country’s dramatic twists and turns during the last 150 years. In the last decade there has been a major reappraisal of the role and status of the photobook within the history of photography. Revisionist histories have added enormously to our understanding of the medium’s culture, particularly in places that are often marginalized, such as Latin America and Africa. However, until now, only three Chinese photobooks have made it onto historians’ short lists.Yet China has a fascinating history of photobook publishing, and Parr/Aperture’s exhibition The Chinese Photobook revealed for the first time the richness and diversity of this heritage. Divided into six historical sections, it both delighted and engaged photobook enthusiasts with the excitement of discovery. Based on a collection compiled by Martin Parr and Beijing- and London-based Dutch photographer team Wassink Lundgren, The Chinese Photobook embodies an unprecedented amount of research and scholarship, and includes accompanying texts and individual title descriptions by Gu Zheng, RaymondLum, Gerry Badger, Stephanie Tung, and Ruben Lundgren.

AB - The Chinese Photobook reveals much about China itself, and the country’s dramatic twists and turns during the last 150 years. In the last decade there has been a major reappraisal of the role and status of the photobook within the history of photography. Revisionist histories have added enormously to our understanding of the medium’s culture, particularly in places that are often marginalized, such as Latin America and Africa. However, until now, only three Chinese photobooks have made it onto historians’ short lists.Yet China has a fascinating history of photobook publishing, and Parr/Aperture’s exhibition The Chinese Photobook revealed for the first time the richness and diversity of this heritage. Divided into six historical sections, it both delighted and engaged photobook enthusiasts with the excitement of discovery. Based on a collection compiled by Martin Parr and Beijing- and London-based Dutch photographer team Wassink Lundgren, The Chinese Photobook embodies an unprecedented amount of research and scholarship, and includes accompanying texts and individual title descriptions by Gu Zheng, RaymondLum, Gerry Badger, Stephanie Tung, and Ruben Lundgren.

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