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A Time for the Heart
List Price: HK$ 128.00
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Publisher: AOPP
ISBN: 9789881971623
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This Christmas, Oowa makes an unforgettable journey to his heart and probably to yours. Oowa looked forward to growing up. He was curious about the world and how it was changing. However, as he realised that the world was not changing as he expected, he became more and more estranged from himself. Loneliness began to close in around him. He did not know where it came from, but knew there was something wrong in his heart. He tried to restore his heart to what it had been before, but it soon became tarnished again. Then, one strange and dazzling night, he arrived at a place where countless beautiful hearts blossomed. Nothing could have made him happier. But once he learned the story of these hearts, he also understood the reason for his loneliness ¡V and faced the reality of all the things he had left behind.
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Black List
List Price: HK$ 190.00
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Publisher: AOPP
ISBN: 9789881882387
Hardcover, 144 pages, 178 x 241mm, English & Chinese
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Stage photographer/designer Leocampo Yuen spent more than a year lingering in the backstage areas of theatres in Hong Kong to take portraits of 41 ¡§theatrical heroes¡¨. Each black-and-white image offers a unique visual evocation of the unmistakable atmosphere of theatre, and an insight to the effort and professionalism of the „elite of the stage‟. Among those portrayed are Ringo Chan, Louis Yu, Chan Ping Chiu, and Yan Ming Wai.
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Dream Home
List Price: HK$ 320.00
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Publisher: AOPP
ISBN: 978-9628638314
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Drift City 10 Years 2000-2010
List Price: HK$ 580.00
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Publisher: Asia One Books
ISBN: 9789881971616
328 pages, Softcover, 420 x 297mm
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A decade ago, in an anonymous city, a skyscraper marked for demolition suddenly vanished overnight. Someone said hands and legs had grown out of it, and it had simply taken off to explore the world. Drift City is a story about the city. The main character is an insignificant, soon-to-be-forgotten skyscraper. In fact, the skyscraper itself has forgotten when it was created and the faces of the people who once thronged its rooms and corridors. But somehow, in the fog of lost memory, there remains a vague sense of mission. Thus it drifts in space, between reality and utopia, endlessly searching for an ideal city. On this premise, visual artist Kacey Wong has been wearing his skyscraper suit and travelling the world for the past decade in an effort to explore the architectural monuments of our civilisation. The Drift City photo series and exhibition is the result - as is this fascinating accompanying book.
About the photographer
Kacey Wong was born in Hong Kong in 1970. He studied architecture at Cornell University, received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Chelsea School of Art and Design, and his Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Wong has curated a series of local and international art exhibitions exploring issues of space and city, including Home (1999), Personal Skyscraper (2000), City Space (2001) and Drift City (2001, 2002). Among his own significant works are his mobile home tricycle project 'Wandering Homes', and a floating house entitled 'Padding Home', the latter becoming a favourite feature of the 2010 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture exhibition. Wong was also the winner of Best Artist Award in 2010, and the Rising Artist and Outstanding Arts Education Awards given by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 2003. He is currently an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Environment and Interior Design Discipline.
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European Soliloquy - A Memory in Glass
List Price: HK$ 175.00
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Publisher: Asia One Books
ISBN: 978-9881704191
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European Soliloquy - A Memory in Glass is a moving narrative of
photographer Sara Tin's journey through 13 European cities. In a two - year
period, Tin's travels took her to all corners of the Continent, capturing the
historic grandeur, people and spirit of Budapest, Granada, Rotterdam, Vienna,
Heidelberg and Venice, among other cities. Each, says Tin, is 'as unique as
a fingerprint'. The vividly colourful illustrations invite readers to follow her
footsteps, while the emotion of her prose completes the picture, drawing
one in to share her intercultural experiences on a personal level. This book
is not merely an album of scenic European cityscapes; it is a reflective work
of art that flows from the mind of a traveller.
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Flashes from the Past
List Price: HK$ 220.00
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Publisher: Asia One Books
ISBN: 978-988-17041-3-9
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Flashes from the Past is the first book by acclaimed Hong Kong-based
photographer U Hei-shing and is a pictorial recollection of the old studios
that shaped his early career. The photos were taken over a decade, and
when combined, record a pivotal time in Hong Kong art history.
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Harmony: Synergy between Tradition and the Contemporary ¡V Chinese Calligraphy and Seal Engraving
List Price: HK$ 350.00
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Publisher: Asia One Books
ISBN: 978-9881971647
304 pages Hardcover 228 x 305mm
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The concept of harmony has always resonated through every aspect of China¡¦s long cultural history. In this collection, Dr Daniel CK Lau continues and extends the tradition in an innovative, contemporary vein. The large-scale calligraphic installation ¡¥Harmony (cat. no. 1)¡¦ provides the vehicle for an exploration of script styles ranging from ancient to modern times. Through this work and others from the past decade, Lau strives to integrate past and present to create a fresh aesthetic with its roots in tradition.
About the author Dr Daniel Chak-kwong Lau received his PhD (art history), M.Phil. (Chinese art history) and B.Ed (art education) degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Hong Kong and the University of Gloucestershire respectively. He studied calligraphy and Chinese painting under Han Yunshan and Long Ziduo and has held four solo exhibitions in Hong Kong and the USA to date. Lau¡¦s works can also be found at museums and art galleries in Hong Kong, China and America. He is currently the assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and director of the Master of Visual Arts Programme (MVA), teaching art history, Chinese calligraphy, painting and seal engraving. His published works include Impression: Seals Engraved by Daniel Chak-kwong Lau, The Void-Solid Reciprocity: Black-Tiger Calligraphy by Daniel Chak-kwong Lau, The Inter-Referencing of Elegance and Vulgarity: Daniel Chak-kwong Lau¡¦s New Exploration into Calligraphy and Seal Engraving, Literati Arts - Inheritance and Transformation as well as more than 40 articles and exhibition catalogue entries.
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Hong Kong Inside Outside - Michael Wolf
List Price: HK$ 680.00
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Publisher: Asia One Books and Peperoni Books
ISBN: 978-988-17998-7-6
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Publisher's Description
During his more than 14 years in Hong Kong, German-born photographer Michael Wolf's perspective on his adopted city has boiled down to an essence of density - the hemmed-in, closely built environment which shapes everything from its peoples¡¥ lifestyles to their outlooks and even dreams. In Hong Kong Inside Outside, Wolf collects the works of his two previous collections - Architecture of Density and 100x100 - into a two-volume set focusing on the visual elements of one of the world's most crowded cities.
For Architecture of Density, Wolf's photographic technique removed any sky or horizon line from his depictions of Hong Kong buildings, flattening his subjects until they become relentless abstractions of urban expansion. It is a disorienting vantage point, which perhaps is the spatial experience of Hong Kong's inhabitants. In 100x100 Wolf went deeper, taking portraits of public housing residents surrounded by all their belongings. He obtains the same vantage point for each picture forming a typology that allows the viewer to study how these individuals make their confined spaces their own.
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Hong Kong/China Photographers Five - Mak Fung by Sylvia Ng
List Price: HK$ 300.00
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Publisher: Asia One Books
ISBN: 9789881799807
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Born in Hong Kong at the end of the First World War, Mak Fung¡¦s (1918-2009) influence on photography in Hong Kong spanned its most formative decades. Entirely self-taught, from 1950-1980 Mak made a modest living as an accountant at a cotton mill, indulging his passion for photography for many years as an amateur. Eventually blossoming as a professional, he pioneered local photographic writing and publishing in both the artistic and popular spheres. His contributions to Photoart , Photo Pictorial ,and the monthly Photography Express were particularly instrumental to introducing photography to a wide audience in Hong Kong and China.
In his images, Mak Fung created an invaluable account of Hong Kong¡¦s evolution from the 1940s to the late 1990s. His depictions of everyday life in the formerly low-rise districts of Mongkok and Central are startling today. His salon photos of cinema stars of the 1960s similarly impress the modern viewer as poignant symbols of a simpler era.
This book reveals only a hint of Mak¡¦s mastery of genres, from salon and scenic, to pictorial and grassroots documentary. Nevertheless, these images do more than open a nostalgic window to Hong Kong¡¦s past: as a testament to Mak¡¦s skill and enduring influence, they compel the viewer to better understand the Hong Kong of today.
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Hong Kong/China Photographers Four ¡V Wong Wo Bik by Eve Tam
List Price: HK$ 300.00
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Publisher: Asia One Books
ISBN: 9789881799852
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As author Eve Tam describes, Wong Wo-bik ¡V the subject of Hong Kong/China Photographers Four ¡V is as much a detective or hunter as she is a photographer. Wildly imaginative and with an uncanny knack for discovering ¡¥the unseen in plain sight¡¦, Wong creates images that exert a spell on the viewer, pulling one into an all-consuming world of the surreal and mysterious, and compelling one to ¡¥rewire¡¦ one¡¦s perceptions of everyday life. Hong Kong/China Photographers Four includes highlights of some of Wong¡¦s most significant works, including her 1980s Polaroid series, her boundaryblurring collaboration with the City¡¦s Contemporary Dance Company in 1988, her ongoing visual documentation of historical architecture, and the recent photographic fabrication/installation developed from her ¡¥Eu Tong Sen¡¦ series.
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