Book copyright © 2004 by ICP & Steidl Publishers
Published by the International Center of Photography and Steidl Publishers.
The Globalist PhotoGallery:
Liu Zheng's The Chinese
Photographs by Liu Zheng
176 pages. 120 color photographs.
Dimensions (in inches): 10.0 x 10.0.
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The Chinese
For the past decade, Chinese artist Liu Zheng has been working on his ambitious photographic project "The Chinese." In the finished work, Zheng has captured a people and a country in a unique time of flux.
Zheng seeks out moments in which archetypal Chinese characters are encountered in extreme and unexpected situations. His subjects have included street eccentrics, homeless children, street performers, provincial drug traffickers, coal miners, Buddhist monks, prison inmates, Taoist priests, waxwork figures in historical museums, and the dead and dying. Zheng's photographs betray a dark vision, albeit one that is laced with offsetting humor.
About Liu Zheng
One of China's most widely exhibited contemporary artists, Liu Zheng was born in 1969 in Wuqiang County in Hebei province and grew up in Shanxi province.
After studying optical engineering at Beijing Technology Institute, he served as a professional photojournalist for Worker's Daily from 1991 to 1997. Liu Zheng's work has been included in such major exhibitions as the "1st Guangzhou Triennial" and the "50th Venice Biennial."
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