In September 1946, when the photographer Hedda Morrison reached Hong Kong, it remained little changed from decades earlier. Acclaimed for her images of China taken in the 1930s and 1940s, Hedda Morrison delighted in recording the patterns of everyday life. Now, captivated by Hong Kong and its people, she embraced the colony's diversity. For six months, cameras in hand, Morrison roamed its districts, streets, coasts and valleys. This book presents the people and places she encountered.
Within years, much of what Hedda Morrison witnessed in 1946-47 would be swept aside. Yet when she was there Hong Kong's life still had its old feel and traditions - with colonial precincts, tenement streets, bustling markets, itinerant hawkers, fisherfolk and rice farmers. In this book, Morrison's memorable images are complemented by Edward Stokes' essays that portray the postwar years.
Hedda Morrison's photographs are the work of a masterful, artistic photographer. However, fewer than thirty of this book's reproductions have ever been seen before. It was those images, first sighted in a 1946 government report, that led Edward Stokes to begin searching for Morrison's original negatives - which later were discovered a the Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard University.
This is a unique record of a now vanished Hong Kong - the most complete pictorial account of how the colony looked during the decades from the early 1930s to the 1950s. Hedda Morrison's photographs will appeal to all who value documentary images, Asian history, and the ethnography of urban trades, crafts and rural life.
0 有用 南池子 2019-01-10 22:12:15
对赫达·莫里逊的活动情况进行了介绍。
2 有用 sauce 2014-12-09 16:33:30
一開始只當攝影集翻,但Edward Stokes對每個以地區作為章節的文字敘述中,客觀並生動描述了當時港人在各地區的生活情形與環境,配以Hedda Morrison的風景與人文照片,道盡當時大批難民因時勢而不得不在香港落地生根、成為日後普遍港人的失落與空無,只求生活安穩的淡漠心態,Stokes精準而詳實的描繪,Morrison具體而微的鏡頭,保持距離卻不乏溫度。很棒的參考資料。
0 有用 南池子 2019-01-10 22:12:15
对赫达·莫里逊的活动情况进行了介绍。
2 有用 sauce 2014-12-09 16:33:30
一開始只當攝影集翻,但Edward Stokes對每個以地區作為章節的文字敘述中,客觀並生動描述了當時港人在各地區的生活情形與環境,配以Hedda Morrison的風景與人文照片,道盡當時大批難民因時勢而不得不在香港落地生根、成為日後普遍港人的失落與空無,只求生活安穩的淡漠心態,Stokes精準而詳實的描繪,Morrison具體而微的鏡頭,保持距離卻不乏溫度。很棒的參考資料。