Picturing Asia
Subtitle: double take : the photography of Brian Brake and Steve McCurry
By: project manager, Dominique Chan ; guest curator, Ian Wedde ; editor, Ian Wedde ; contributors, Anthony Bannon [and six others] ; art direction and design, Zero
Contributors: Brake, Brian, 1927-1988, photographer; McCurry, Steve, photographer; Zero; Asia Society. Hong Kong Center
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9789881227270
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions; Photograph collections; Artistic Photography
Other titles: Double take :
Description: Brian Brake (1927-1988, New Zealand) and Steve McCurry (1950-, U.S.A.) are two eminent photojournalists whose work concurs with the mission of Asia Society-to promote greater understanding of Asia. The catalogue title Picturing Asia references two kinds of picturing: what we do when we make a photograph, and the imaginative act implied by the phrase picture this . This double take carries over into the experience of seeing the different takes of two great photographers who made their reputations as visual storytellers providing eyewitness accounts of great events . This catalogue invites viewers to participate in a rich visual conversation between the two photographers and their individually distinct picturings of Asia. Brake's international career as a documentary photographer was launched by his photo essays on China in Life in 1957 and 1959. McCurry's breakthrough came with the publication of a photograph in the New York Times, 1979, of the war in Afghanistan. Both men photographed the monsoon-Brake in 1960, McCurry in 1983-1985-and it is here that this exhibition begins.
Notes: Catalolog of an exhibition held from September 10, 2016-January 7, 2017 at Asia Society Hong Kong Center in Hong Kong.

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