Changfen Chen (11 results)

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 152 pages; very good condition; except scuffs to cover; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. 1st edition.

paperback. Condition: Good. Book shows minor handling & shelf wear. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Changfen, Chen. (illustrator). Illustrated with 71 photographs by Chen Changfen. 150 pages. 4to, pictorial boards. New Haven: Yale University Press, (2007). A fine copy. Foreword by Joanthan D. Spence.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 150 pages; Description: xvi, 150 p. : ill. (some col. ) , col. Map ; 32 cm. Catalog of exhibition held Apr. 1-Aug. 12, 2007 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Great Wall of China (China) --Pictorial works --Exhibitions. Summary: Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen's richly evocative photographs at once celebrate the remarkable series of building campaigns that produced the Wall and memorialize the thousands of conscripted laborers whose lives were sacrificed to its construction. One of the most striking features of Chen's photographs is their unexpected variety of perspectives and moods, capturing the vicissitudes of weather, time, and human history that have acted upon it. By excluding the people, highways, factories, and modern buildings that encroach on and daily destroy sections of the Wall, however, Chen eliminates major aspects of the Wall's present reality from his pictures. In a thoughtful essay and interview with the artist, Anne Wilkes Tucker probes the meanings of such omissions and guides the reader through Chen's extraordinary images. The Great Wall of China is essential reading for photographers, historians, and travelers. 4 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Like New. Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen's richly evocative photographs at once celebrate the remarkable series of building campaigns that produced the Wall and memorialize the thousands of conscripted laborers whose lives were sacrificed to its construction.One of the most striking features of Chen's photographs is their unexpected variety of perspectives and moods, capturing the vicissitudes of weather, time, and human history that have acted upon it. By excluding the people, highways, factories, and modern buildings that encroach on and daily destroy sections of the Wall, however, Chen eliminates major aspects of the Wall's present reality from his pictures. In a thoughtful essay and interview with the artist, Anne Wilkes Tucker probes the meanings of such omissions and guides the reader through Chen's extraordinary images. 'The Great Wall of China' is essential reading for photographers, historians, and travelers.

First Edition. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 150 pages; Description: xvi, 150 p. : ill. (some col. ) , col. Map ; 32 cm. Catalog of exhibition held Apr. 1-Aug. 12, 2007 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Great Wall of China (China) --Pictorial works --Exhibitions. Summary: Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen's richly evocative photographs at once celebrate the remarkable series of building campaigns that produced the Wall and memorialize the thousands of conscripted laborers whose lives were sacrificed to its construction. One of the most striking features of Chen's photographs is their unexpected variety of perspectives and moods, capturing the vicissitudes of weather, time, and human history that have acted upon it. By excluding the people, highways, factories, and modern buildings that encroach on and daily destroy sections of the Wall, however, Chen eliminates major aspects of the Wall's present reality from his pictures. In a thoughtful essay and interview with the artist, Anne Wilkes Tucker probes the meanings of such omissions and guides the reader through Chen's extraordinary images. The Great Wall of China is essential reading for photographers, historians, and travelers. 2 Kg.

Condition: new. New Haven : Yale University Press in association with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, c2007. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xvi, 150 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 32 cm. Anne Wilkes Tucker ; foreword by Jonathan D. Spence. Catalog of exhibition held Apr. 1-Aug. 12, 2007 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. - Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen's richly evocative photographs at once celebrate the remarkable series of building campaigns that produced the Wall and memorialize the thousands of conscripted laborers whose lives were sacrificed to its construction. One of the most striking features of Chen's photographs is their unexpected variety of perspectives and moods, capturing the vicissitudes of weather, time, and human history that have acted upon it. By excluding the people, highways, factories, and modern buildings that encroach on and daily destroy sections of the Wall, however, Chen eliminates major aspects of the Wall's present reality from his pictures. In a thoughtful essay and interview with the artist, Anne Wilkes Tucker probes the meanings of such omissions and guides the reader through Chen's extraordinary images. The Great Wall of China is essential reading for photographers, historians, and travelers. Condition : new copy. ISBN 9780300122473. Keywords : PHOTOGRAPHY, Chinese Wall.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press (2007). First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New. A pristine urnead copy, still in shrinkwrap. 0.0.

Condition: very good. vendeur pro, expedition soignee en 24/48h.Le livre peut montrer des signes d'usure dus à son utilisation, des défauts esthétiques tels que des rayures, des bosses et/ou des coins legerement endommages.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.