Zhong Weixing: Face to Face
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Zhong Weixing: Face to Face
By (Author) Zhong Weixing
Unicorn Publishing Group
Unicorn Publishing Group
1st July 2019
1st July 2019
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Photography: portraits and self-portraiture
779.092
Physical Properties
Hardback
226
Width 330mm, Height 413mm
Description
From 2015, this Chinese photographer has been dedicated to shooting the best portraits possible of international masters of photography. Through his lens he has captured the faces of many of the world's contemporary photographers: Sebastiao Salgado, William Klein, Robert Frank, Bruno Barbey, Bernard Faucon. At present, there are more than 60 portraits included in Zhong Weixing's `Contemporary Photography Masters', and the programme is still ongoing. Jean-Luc Monterosso, former director of the world-renowned Maison Europe enne de la Photographie, describes these works by Zhong Weixing as a `pantheon of photography masters'. The well-known photographer Bruno Barbey has praised them as representing a `Bible of photographic history'.
Author Bio
Zhong Weixing, born in 1962, is a well-known contemporary Chinese photographer, and member of the Chinese Photographers Association.
