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A window suddenly opens : contemporary photography in China / edited by Melissa Chiu and Betsy Johnson ; with contributions by Claire Roberts, Orville Schell, Karen Smith, Taliesin Thomas, Larry Warsh.

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Washington, DC : Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, [2023]

Photography -- China -- History -- Exhibitions.

Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.

China -- Pictorial works.

9780300269888 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

0300269889 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ix, 225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

"The past thirty years were dynamic, transformative decades in Chinese photography. Artists exposed to recent work from around the globe experimented with photography in newly conceptual and expressive ways, and their art from this period offers a portrait of a country at a moment of rapid urbanization, globalization, and cultural foment. A Window Suddenly Opens reveals the key role that photography from the 1990s to the early 2020s has played in questioning and refashioning the aesthetic and social status quo of modern Chinese society. Alongside prescient works by Cao Fei, Lin Tianmiao, Rong Rong, Song Dong, Wang Qingsong, Zhang Huan, Zhang Peili, and many other artists, essays and interviews by scholars and curators Melissa Chiu, Betsy Johnson, Orville Schell, Karen Smith, and Taliesin Thomas explore the history of experimental photography in China and the artistic transformations of the digital age. The book also features texts written between 1994 and 2009 by Chinese photographers, some published for the first time here in English, which offer essential insights into the artists' ideas and experiences as they forged new creative paths"--

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