Research Catalog

Title

Mother river / Yan Wang Preston.

Author

Preston, Yan Wang, 1976-

Publication

• Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, map; 28 x 34 cm

Summary

"Mother River is a four-year project (2010-2014) for which the British-Chinese photographer Yan Wang Preston (*1976) photographed the entire 6,211-kilometre Yangtze River at precise 100-kilometre intervals with a large-format film camera ... The equally spaced photographic locations produce no picturesque views or sublime concrete structures, but rather a set of accidental and vernacular landscapes that have never, or rarely, been photographed before."--Wrapping.

Subject

• Preston, Yan Wang, 1976-
• Landscape photography > China
• Yangtze River (China) > Pictorial works
• China > Yangtze River

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

• Chiefly illustrated.
• "2011...For the next five years, over many trips from her home in Yorkshire, Yan continued her attempts to reach the exact locations of all sixty-three Y Points that make up the visual journey along the whole of the Yangtze River. With perhaps the exception of the last picture, of the ocean at the river mouth, she was completely ignorant of what she would find when she finally reached each of the mapped points. By deciding to photograph at sites so randomly chosen through the 100-kilometre-interval mapping process, she eschewed most of the established visual drama of the river--the gorges, the dams, and the vast new cities--and instead created a work rich with new and untold stories."--Foreword.

Call Number

JQG 19-209

ISBN

• 9783775744478
• 3775744479

OCLC

1031203311

Author

Preston, Yan Wang, 1976- photographer, author.

Title

Mother river / Yan Wang Preston.

Publisher

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JQG 19-209