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1950s Hong Kong Captured In Street Photography By Fan Ho
1950s Hong Kong Captured In Street Photography By Fan Ho
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Critically acclaimed Chinese photographer Fan Ho spent the 1950s and 60s taking gritty and darkly beautiful photos of street life in Hong Kong. His photographs, to be published in his new book “Fan Ho: A Hong Kong Memoir“, reach back through time and space to connect us to the everyday sights of this bustling metropolis in a way that many of us have never seen before.

Ever since Ho moved to Hong Kong from Shanghai in 1949, he has been documenting these special everyday moments. But the challenges (and superstitions) he faced then were quite different from those faced by photographers today; “With a knife in his hand, a pig butcher said he would chop me. He wanted his spirit back,” Ho told the South China Morning Post.

More info: modernbook.com | Facebook (h/t: petapixel, South China Morning Post)

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    Dovas

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    There is a beast with heart of cold stone that dashes like lightning, shreds flesh from bone. // Bewitched by this beast, I fell to my knees. My mouth babbled madness and mumbled soft pleas. // I stared down the ravenous, gnashing dark maw of a cute cuddly kitten with yarn in its paw

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    Dovas

    Dovas

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    There is a beast with heart of cold stone that dashes like lightning, shreds flesh from bone. // Bewitched by this beast, I fell to my knees. My mouth babbled madness and mumbled soft pleas. // I stared down the ravenous, gnashing dark maw of a cute cuddly kitten with yarn in its paw

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    RyanDibisch
    Community Member
    11 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Incredible photographs. A master of light and shadow.

    goodtogo
    Community Member
    11 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As I looked through these photos I could hear the sounds in the street along with the beating of a heart.

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    RyanDibisch
    Community Member
    11 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Incredible photographs. A master of light and shadow.

    goodtogo
    Community Member
    11 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As I looked through these photos I could hear the sounds in the street along with the beating of a heart.

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