Xu Yong

18% GRAY / MY FRIENDS
It’s hard to think of another contemporary Chinese photographer who fully exploits all the possibilities photography has to offer like Xu Yong. This book compounds two of his series of blurred images, 18% GRAY (2009) and MY FRIENDS (2020). Text in English and Chinese.

It’s hard to think of another contemporary Chinese photographer who fully exploits all the possibilities photography has to offer like Xu Yong. For his series 18% GRAY (2009) and MY FRIENDS (2020), he constructed a ten-centimetre-long metal ring, which was then affixed between the camera and the lens, causing the camera to lose focus so that the images are blurred. Xu Yong used this method to photograph his close friends and important places from his memories. He portrays, for example, the alleyway in Shanghai where he lived as a child, the Huangpu river, in which the ashes of his grandfather were scattered, and Tiananmen Square in Beijing. This publication is a visual autobiography which at the same time allows Xu Yong to demonstrate his great sensitivity for the realities of Chinese society.

Text in English and Chinese.

Contributor: Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky (Text by)

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