China

Hoflehner, Josef

ISBN 10: 3902600055 / ISBN 13: 9783902600059

Published by Most Press, 0, 2009

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Signed by the Photographer "Josef Hoflehner's China monograph spans four years of intensive travel to the Middle Kingdom and is an amazing testament to the unique confluence of geography, history and commerce that has shaped this vast nation. Through an original and often startling juxtaposition of images, classical sites from antiquity mix with new urban skylines to form a collection that underscores the contrasts of modern Chinese life and the sweeping changes taking place." - from the Introduction by Scott Minick. This new book features more than 100 of Josef Hoflehner's epic photographs of China. Most of them are published here for the first time. Superbly printed in duotone by China's leading art book printer. Hardcover, 30x32cm / 12"x13", 132 pages, 100 photographs ISBN 978-3-9026000-5-9, Most Press, September 2009. Seller Inventory # 2866

Bibliographic Details

Title: China

Publisher: Most Press, 0

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Josef Hoflehner

Condition: New

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis:

Josef Hoflehner s China monograph spans four years of intensive travel to the Middle Kingdom and is an amazing testament to the unique confluence of geography, history and commerce that has shaped this vast nation. Through an original and often startling juxtaposition of images, classical sites from antiquity mix with new urban skylines to form a collection that underscores the contrasts of modern Chinese life and the sweeping changes taking place. - from the Introduction by Scott Minick. - This new book features more than 100 of Josef Hoflehner's epic photographs from China. Most of them are published here for the first time. Superbly printed in duotone by China's leading art book printer.

About the Author:

Each of Josef Hoflehner s photographs achieves a perfection of composition that seems to defy the possibility that it could ever be seen any other way. Gripping in their ultimate solitude and the unexpected natural beauty they capture, Hoflehner's photographs take his earthly subject matter to raise it to an almost mythical level, defining the essence of the place. In these rare and elusive moments, the natural and the man made are brought together in a poetic interplay of light and shadow, emptiness and structure.