Grace Lau Portraits In a Chinese Studio
Val Williams edited and project managed this new book by Grace Lau, she commissioned a new essay by Shirley Read and wrote a short introduction. In the summer of 2005, photographer Grace Lau set up a portrait studio on Hastings seafront. The studio was on a busy route, a few doors away from the Icel...
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ftunivartslondon:oai:ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk:13973 2023-07-30T04:04:29+02:00 Grace Lau Portraits In a Chinese Studio Williams, Val Lau, Grace Williams, Val 2019-03 text https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13973/ https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13973/1/Grace%20Lau%20press%20release%20V2%20%28dragged%29.pdf https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13973/2/Grace%20Lau%20cover%20V2a.pdf http://www.parakeetbooks.org en eng Parakeet Books https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13973/1/Grace%20Lau%20press%20release%20V2%20%28dragged%29.pdf https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13973/2/Grace%20Lau%20cover%20V2a.pdf Williams, Val <https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/view/creators/Williams=3AVal=3A=3A.html> and Lau, Grace <https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/view/creators/Lau=3AGrace=3A=3A.html> (2019) Grace Lau Portraits In a Chinese Studio. Parakeet Books, London. ISBN 978-1-5272-2793-4 cc_by_nc_nd History of Photography Book NonPeerReviewed 2019 ftunivartslondon 2023-07-10T21:16:50Z Val Williams edited and project managed this new book by Grace Lau, she commissioned a new essay by Shirley Read and wrote a short introduction. In the summer of 2005, photographer Grace Lau set up a portrait studio on Hastings seafront. The studio was on a busy route, a few doors away from the Iceland store and the former Borough Parking Office and on the main route into the tourist draw of Hastings Old Town. Over six weeks, she made 400 photographs; everyone who posed received a free digital print. She called her project ‘21st Century Types’ and the photographs speak volumes about the way we see ourselves and the way we are seen. ‘Through this project’, Lau wrote recently, ‘I am making an oblique comment of Imperialist visions of the ‘exotic’ Chinese and by reversing roles, I have become the Imperialist photographer documenting my exotic subjects in the ‘Port’ of Hastings.I played the formal photographer, asking them to sit still and look serious while I fussed with focusing and waited for the right shutter second. I also asked them to keep their accessories in the pose, their sunglasses, coke bottles, ice cream, mobiles, souvenirs, sunhats, supermarkets plastic bags. all this added a contemporary layer to my old-fashioned studio, compressing history and the present into one eclectic image. These rich, many layered opulent portraits, made in a community centre on a scruffy seafront, by a Chinese feminist photographer more used to portraying the fetish underworld than families with ice creams, are a monument to place, race, people and the passing of time. Acting the part of the stern Chinese studio portraitist, she created a raucous theatre of photography. By now, all the children in Lau’s photographs will be almost adult, almost all the dogs, and some of the people, will have passed away. Partnerships and friendships may have fractured, or be still sound, family groups will have morphed, reformed, grown larger or smaller. The photographs of those days in the summer, the years into the 21st century, act as ... Book Iceland University of the Arts London: UAL Research Online Hastings ENVELOPE(-154.167,-154.167,-85.567,-85.567) |
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Val Williams edited and project managed this new book by Grace Lau, she commissioned a new essay by Shirley Read and wrote a short introduction. In the summer of 2005, photographer Grace Lau set up a portrait studio on Hastings seafront. The studio was on a busy route, a few doors away from the Iceland store and the former Borough Parking Office and on the main route into the tourist draw of Hastings Old Town. Over six weeks, she made 400 photographs; everyone who posed received a free digital print. She called her project ‘21st Century Types’ and the photographs speak volumes about the way we see ourselves and the way we are seen. ‘Through this project’, Lau wrote recently, ‘I am making an oblique comment of Imperialist visions of the ‘exotic’ Chinese and by reversing roles, I have become the Imperialist photographer documenting my exotic subjects in the ‘Port’ of Hastings.I played the formal photographer, asking them to sit still and look serious while I fussed with focusing and waited for the right shutter second. I also asked them to keep their accessories in the pose, their sunglasses, coke bottles, ice cream, mobiles, souvenirs, sunhats, supermarkets plastic bags. all this added a contemporary layer to my old-fashioned studio, compressing history and the present into one eclectic image. These rich, many layered opulent portraits, made in a community centre on a scruffy seafront, by a Chinese feminist photographer more used to portraying the fetish underworld than families with ice creams, are a monument to place, race, people and the passing of time. Acting the part of the stern Chinese studio portraitist, she created a raucous theatre of photography. By now, all the children in Lau’s photographs will be almost adult, almost all the dogs, and some of the people, will have passed away. Partnerships and friendships may have fractured, or be still sound, family groups will have morphed, reformed, grown larger or smaller. The photographs of those days in the summer, the years into the 21st century, act as ... |
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https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13973/1/Grace%20Lau%20press%20release%20V2%20%28dragged%29.pdf https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/13973/2/Grace%20Lau%20cover%20V2a.pdf Williams, Val <https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/view/creators/Williams=3AVal=3A=3A.html> and Lau, Grace <https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/view/creators/Lau=3AGrace=3A=3A.html> (2019) Grace Lau Portraits In a Chinese Studio. Parakeet Books, London. ISBN 978-1-5272-2793-4 |
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