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"Zhang HAI’ER is one of today’s most important Chinese photographers. His early work offers a unique picture of the underbelly of his country’s cities in the 1980s and 90s: Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong…
His best-known photographs, however, are portraits of women: prostitutes, his wife, friends, anonymous subjects.
Women he looks at with a clear sexual fascination. Yet the gaze is two-directional: the women are complicit in the privileged relationship that arises between model and photographer; they return his gaze, boldly and provocatively.
In this way, photobook 'Les Filles' testifies to a clearly defined era in China: the young women in the portraits struggle with the strict, moralistic society in which they are living." (publisher's note, © Ludion, 2018)
His best-known photographs, however, are portraits of women: prostitutes, his wife, friends, anonymous subjects.
Women he looks at with a clear sexual fascination. Yet the gaze is two-directional: the women are complicit in the privileged relationship that arises between model and photographer; they return his gaze, boldly and provocatively.
In this way, photobook 'Les Filles' testifies to a clearly defined era in China: the young women in the portraits struggle with the strict, moralistic society in which they are living." (publisher's note, © Ludion, 2018)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Karen Smith
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31 x 1,5 cm., 144 pp., b/w & color ills., 1,100 gr., text language: English