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Shifting currents : glimpses of a changing nation
- Title
- Shifting currents : glimpses of a changing nation / photographs by Kouo Shang-Wei ; Zhuang Wubin.
- Author
- Kouo, Shang Wei, 1924-1988
- Publication
- Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions : National Library Board Singapore, [2018]
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TR650 .K68 2018 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 108 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
- Summary
- "Shifting Currents: Glimpses of a Changing Nation is the first book to present a significant collection of Kouo Shang-Wei's most arresting images from his lifetime of photography. Kouo Shang-Wei (1924-1988) was a passionate and talented photographer who was particularly attuned to the passing of time. Over several decades spanning the 1950s to the late 1980s, Kouo's keen eye captured thousands of images of a rapidly changing Singapore, with his viewfinder most often focusing on the evolution of the Singapore River and its immediate environs. Today, his photographs of the Singapore River, Chinatown, the OCBC Centre, Sungei Road Market, Samsui Women, and more, provide us with a precious record of the fruits and price of modernisation. The photographs included in this book were carefully curated from the Kouo Shang-Wei Collection in the National Library, Singapore, by art historian, Zhuang Wubin"--Provided by publisher
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- photobooks.
- Photobooks.
- Pictorial works.
- Livres de photographies.
- Contents
- Setting the Scene -- River Man -- Building an Icon -- Chinatown -- Samsui Women -- Sungei Road Market.
- ISBN
- 9789814779524
- 9814779520
- OCLC
- on1015658636
- 1015658636
- SCSB-9409991
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library