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Picturing Asia : double take : the photography of Brian Brake and Steve McCurry

Title
Picturing Asia : double take : the photography of Brian Brake and Steve McCurry / project manager, Dominique Chan ; guest curator, Ian Wedde ; editor, Ian Wedde ; contributors, Anthony Bannon, Evans Chan, Jonathan Flaws, Athol McCredie, Kristy Soo, Ian Wedde, Ashley Nga-sai Wu; art direction and design, Zero.
Publication
  • Hong Kong : Asia Society Hong Kong Center, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Brake, Brian, 1927-1988
  • McCurry, Steve
  • Chan, Dominique
  • Wedde, Ian
  • Bannon, Anthony
  • Asia Society. Hong Kong Center. host institution.
  • Zero, designer.
Description
197 pages : color illustrations; 31 cm
Summary
Brian Brake (1927-1988, New Zealand) and Steve McCurry (1950-, U.S.A.) are two eminent photojournalists whose work concurs with the mission of Asia Society-to promote greater understanding of Asia. The catalogue title Picturing Asia references two kinds of picturing: what we do when we make a photograph, and the imaginative act implied by the phrase picture this . This double take carries over into the experience of seeing the different takes of two great photographers who made their reputations as visual storytellers providing eyewitness accounts of great events . This catalogue invites viewers to participate in a rich visual conversation between the two photographers and their individually distinct picturings of Asia. Brake's international career as a documentary photographer was launched by his photo essays on China in Life in 1957 and 1959. McCurry's breakthrough came with the publication of a photograph in the New York Times, 1979, of the war in Afghanistan. Both men photographed the monsoon-Brake in 1960, McCurry in 1983-1985-and it is here that this exhibition begins.
Alternative Title
  • Double take : the photography of Brian Brake and Steve McCurry
  • Photography of Brian Brake and Steve McCurry
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • Catalolog of an exhibition held from September 10, 2016-January 7, 2017 at Asia Society Hong Kong Center in Hong Kong.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 9789881227270
  • 9881227275
OCLC
  • ocn974942414
  • 974942414
  • SCSB-1882771
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library