Figures of Speech / Shanghai : Shanghai Center of Photography : 2015

Bibliographic Record

Access Point

B.CN.SCP.47.FOS

Title and Statement of Responsiblity

Figures of Speech = 喻体·幻像

Summarization of Content

Exhibition catalogue for the group photography show: Figures of Speech the opening show of the Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, held between 2015 Dec 13 - 2016 Feb 29. Curated by Karen Smith. 

The show featured the work by a group of photographers who were living and working in Hong Kong from the 1950s to the present. The theme referred to the subjects of the photographs, which do not represent portraits in the traditional sense but instead feature the personal character or the identity of the person in the picture. "If a photograph is a stage, then the various bodies of work in “Figures of Speech” demonstrate the incisive role of dramatist that great photographers play so deftly."

Contains biographies and profiles of the photographers in the exhibition. 

Publication/Production/Distribution Information

Shanghai, China : Shanghai Center of Photography , 2015

Extent

68 pages ; 49 photographs (20.9cm x 14.8cm x 0.7cm)

Content Form and Media Type

text , still image : unmediated

Location

esea contemporary Library Collection ➔ Research Lab ➔ Groups

Access and Use

Conditions on Access

This publication is available in the esea ResearchLab for non-commercial private research use.

Related Information

People and Organisations

Ho, Fan, (1931-2016) ; Yau, Leung, (1941-1997), artist ; Meng, Minsheng, (1919-2007), artist ; Fung, Stanley, (b.1961), photographer ; Wong, Sara, artist ; Leung, Chi Wo, (b.1968), artist ; Shanghai Center of Photography, (SCôP) ; Smith, Karen, curator & art historian

Places

Shanghai ; China

Keywords & Terms

exhibition catalogues ; text ; still images ; Chinese ; English ; Han (Simplified variant) ; Latin (script) ; polychrome ; Photographs ; unmediated ; books ; On site ; Silent ; Group shows ; 2015 Exhibitions ; photography

Descriptive Note

Note

Formerly S2.019

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