Asia Society and Museum (Venue Partner)
725 Park Avenue
212.288.6400
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- When
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Monday Nov 24, 2008 (6:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4 to Madison & 70th; M101, M102 to Lexington & 70th; M30 to Park & 72nd; M66 to Park & 68th OR Subway: #6 to 68th St.
- Price
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$12
- Links
The belief that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" defined Mao & co.'s fist-first regime. Liu Heung Shing's Pulitzer-Prize-winning portfolio, on the other hand, argues that the zoom barrel of a camera carries similar weight. The photojournalist has spent three revelatory decades — beginning with the Chairman's death — freeze-framing China's remarkable transformations, which come to pass at an exponential, but hyper-exciting, rate. For tonight's discussion on Shing's photographs, esteemed sinology reporter/writer Orville Schell offers up his expertise as the back-and-forth bandies between historic contextualization and Barthesian dissections of the thousand-messages-in-a-snap images.
