HONG KONG x 24 x 365: A Year in the Life of a City

David Clarke

pro 2006. · Hong Kong University Press

O ovoj e-knjizi

This in-between phase, without major dramas, where history was only with a small 'h', is the subject of this locally orientated micro-historical analysis of one of the world's great cities – which had so lost self-confidence in this period that it started promoting itself as 'Asia's World City', but which might yet prove to be a city that changes China (and therefore the world). Specifying this time, through a collection of colour photographs taken during a randomly chosen twelve-month period, David Clarke presents a year in the life of the city in which he has lived for the last two decades. An antidote to the tourist picture-postcard view of Hong Kong which is so often propagated to locals and visitors alike, these images and their accompanying text are produced from a proximity which enables both a critical engagement with the city and a celebration of its uniqueness. Personal in its perspective, this extended photo essay invites you to join a fabricated journey through the real space of Hong Kong, looking awry at scenes too often photographed before, and looking anew at scenes too often overlooked.

O autoru

David Clarke teaches in the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Hong Kong. He is both a photographer and an art historian, and his photographic art has been exhibited many times in Hong Kong, as well as in a number of other countries, including Australia and Canada. His black and white photos of Hong Kong during the handover years are featured in Reclaimed Land: Hong Kong in Transition (Hong Kong University Press, 2002). Among his other books are Hong Kong Art: Culture and Decolonization and Modern Chinese Art.