Ai Weiwei
Subtitle: New York 1983-1993
Contributors: Tung, Stephanie H.; Rongrong, 1968-; Inri, 1973-; San ying tang she ying yi shu zhong xin; Chambers Fine Art (Gallery)
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Three Shadows Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Beijing]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9789889966782
Subjects: Street photography; Documentary photography; Portrait photography; Artists; Self-portraits; Pictorial works; History
Other titles: Ai Weiwei New York photographs 1983-1993
Description: "These photos were taken between 1983 and 1994 during the decade I spent living in New York before returning to Beijing. At that time, I didn't really have anything to do. I was just hanging out, whiling away my time everyday by taking pictures of the people I met, places I went, my friends, my neighborhood, the street and the city. In a flash twenty years have passed, and the New York I knew no longer exists. The appearance of the East Village has totally changed, and many of the people in my photographs are no longer in this world. I took these photos casually, and most of my subjects probably don't even realize that they are in them. Today, looking back on the past, I can see that these photographs are facts, but not necessarily true. After all, any reality is just a factor of change - an unconfirmed moment in the slow march of time. The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today."--Ai Weiwei.
Notes: Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Ai Weiwei's unpublished photographs: "Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993"' at the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, January 2011.

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