Photography career. Fan Ho was born in Shanghai in 1931, and emigrated with his family to Hong Kong in 1949. At the outbreak of war in 1941, Ho's parents were stranded in Macau for several years and Ho was left in the care of a family servant.
The final publication in the trilogy of photobooks published by Modernbook Editions and Asia One Books, Fan Ho’s _A Hong Kong Memory _follows the previous publications The Living Theatre and Hong Kong Yesterday. This third and final installment includes an in-depth introduction by mark Pinsukanjana and Bryan Yedinak as well as an afterword written by Sarah van Ingelgom. Here Fan Ho experiments with the old negatives, creating new and interesting narratives of the cities landscape through overlaying the negatives on one and another. These selected compositions through the use of double negative prints create worlds which are both playful yet maintain their elegant and timeless representation of the artists beloved city. Here Fan Ho brilliantly creates new narratives and scenes by using this overlaying technique to make “something old new again.” New worlds are created and explored by the viewer, allowing people to once again rediscover Hong Kong through multiplicities of meanings and referencing visible in Fan Ho’s final installment.
The final publication in the trilogy of photobooks published by Modernbook Editions and Asia One Books, Fan Ho’s _A Hong Kong Memory _follows the previous publications The Living Theatre and Hong Kong Yesterday. This third and final installment includes an in-depth introduction by mark Pinsukanjana and Bryan Yedinak as well as an afterword written by Sarah van Ingelgom. Here Fan Ho experiments with the old negatives, creating new and interesting narratives of the cities landscape through overlaying the negatives on one and another. These selected compositions through the use of double negative prints create worlds which are both playful yet maintain their elegant and timeless representation of the artists beloved city. Here Fan Ho brilliantly creates new narratives and scenes by using this overlaying technique to make “something old new again.” New worlds are created and explored by the viewer, allowing people to once again rediscover Hong Kong through multiplicities of meanings and referencing visible in Fan Ho’s final installment.
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- October 07, 2019 by Fan Ho Trust and Estate in Fan Ho, Hong Kong 50s and 60s, Photography, 香港, 黑白攝影 “Running off the Tracks”, “Wearisome Journey”, “A Sail” (cover image) and “Afternoon Chat” were featured in 1961 Toronto International Salon of Photography!
- Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir revisits this lost era with a combination of never before seen images and introduces new-montaged photographs. Complementing the exhibition will be Mr. Ho’s new book by modernbook editions, Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir containing 101 images.