Hedda Morrison's Hong Kong : photographs & impressions 1946-47 / [text by] Edward Stokes.
Material type: TextPublisher: Hong Kong : [London : Hong Kong University Press ; Eurospan distributor], 2005Description: xvii, 282 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN:- 9622097545 (hbk.) :
- 951.2505 22
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951.2505 CRI Crisis and transformation in China's Hong Kong / | 951.2505 FLO The final years of British Hong Kong : the discourse of colonial withdrawal / | 951.2505 KEA Last post : the end of empire in the Far East / | 951.2505 MOR Hedda Morrison's Hong Kong : photographs & impressions 1946-47 / | 951.2505 YAH Hong Kong : China's challenge / | 951.5055 GOL A history of modern Tibet. Volume 2, The calm before the storm, 1951-1955 / | 951.9 ARM The Koreas / |
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"In September 1946, when the photographer Hedda Morrison reached Hong Kong, it remained little changed from decades earlier. Acclaimed for her images of China taken in the 1930s and 1940s, Hedda Morrison delighted in recording the patterns of everyday life. Now, captivated by Hong Kong and its people, she embraced the colony's diversity. For six months, cameras in hand, Morrison roamed its districts, streets, coasts and valleys. This book presents the people and places she encountered." "Within years, much of what Hedda Morrison witnessed in 1946-47 would be swept aside. Yet when she was there Hong Kong's life still had its old feel and traditions - with colonial precincts, tenement streets, bustling markets, itinerant hawkers, fisherfolk and rice farmers. In this book, Morrison's memorable images are complemented by Edward Stokes' essays that portray the postwar years." "Hedda Morrison's photographs are the work of a masterful, artistic photographer. However, fewer than thirty of this book's reproductions have ever been seen before. It was those images, first sighted in a 1946 government report, that led Edward Stokes to begin searching for Morrison's original negatives - which later were discovered a the Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard University." "This is a unique record of a now vanished Hong Kong - the most complete pictorial account of how the colony looked during the decades from the early 1930s to the 1950s. Hedda Morrison's photographs will appeal to all who value documentary images, Asian history, and the ethnography of urban trades, crafts and rural life."--BOOK JACKET.
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