Hong Kong Walled City 2002-2007

Kan Tai Wong
Hong Kong Walled City 2002-2007
Photographs: Wong Kan Tai
Text: Oscar Ho, Simon Go, Carol Lai & Willy Lam
Publisher: Hulu Concept
180 pages
Year: 2007
Comments: Softcover, 205 x 205 mm. First edition, 2007. Black & white photographs. Text in english and in chinese. As new condition. Included in The Chinese Photobook.
Wong Kan-tai has been working as documentary photographer for the past three decades. The photographs collected in this tome represent his maiden effort at an exploratory, soul-searching genre : sparse, at times spartan pictures that evoke a welter of emotions, which are all the most poignant because the scenes and subject-matters so dear to the artist will soon be gone forever.
The images presented in this volume are Wong's choice sites distilled from various shooting expeditions in the early 2000s. They represent gallant attempts to coax, out of a single visual tableau, stories and vignettes of local histories that are pregnant with their denizens' aspirations and frustrations.
His are intimate portraits of a city in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis and the SARS epidemic, particularly downtrodden, marginalized folks living behind the poverty line. He knew at the time of his visit that he was capturing a way of life that would soon be transformed, or in most cases, terminated abruptly and in a most ignoble fashion.
Using his personal experience and feeling as a starting point, he chooses topics from the daily lives so as to capture the fading customs, lifestyles and communities in the HKSAR. He also explores how this metropolis has been transformed under rapid political, economic and social pressures.











more books by Kan Tai Wong
more books tagged »chinese « | >> see all
-
Box - Pass It On
by Peng Yangjun & Chen Jiaojiao
sold -
Love Remains
by Sherry Huang
sold -
Hidden Track (Signed)
by Lin Zhipeng
sold -
Tragédie Coïncidence Et La Double Vie De L.L.D.M (Signed)
by Zhen Shi
sold -
Tibet 1993-1995 (SIGNED)
by Gao Bo
sold -
MENGXI 2 (SIGNED)
by Wei Bi
Euro 75
more books tagged »Hong Kong« | >> see all
-
Yes Madam, Sorry Ah Sir
by Paul Yeung
Euro 55 -
Hong Kong : the way it was
by Ed van der Elsken
sold -
UNTITLED (09-22 Black cover. Unique book with prints)
by Chan Wai Kwong
Euro 600 -
VOICE HONG KONG 2019 (SIGNED)
by Michiko Kiseki
sold -
Hong Kong : A record of conflicts 2005-2015 (set of postcards)...
by Birdy Chu
Euro 15 -
We Love Hong Kong
by Eric
sold
more books tagged »out of print « | >> see all
-
É (SIGNED)
by Masao Yamamoto
sold -
Yagi no Hai/ Lungs of a goat
by Kenshichi Heshiki
sold -
Kolkata
by Tiane Doan na Champassak
Euro 90 -
Bangkok Beauties (Only 25 copies)
by Erik Kessels
sold -
Fast City (signed)
by Morten Andersen
sold -
Seven Stories
by Robert Frank
sold
more books tagged »street photography« | >> see all
-
STREET ART INTERACTIONS (ONLY 100 COPIES) Signed
by Ilya Netyosov
sold -
ONLY YESTERDAY (SIGNED)
by Kazuyuki Kawaguchi
sold -
Chihei Vol.3
by Collective
sold -
Hysteric N°6
by Daido Moriyama
sold -
Last Year's Photographs
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
SHUN TAK PEOPLE 順德人 (SIGNED)
by Chan Wai Kwong
Euro 58
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com