The Pleasures of Fiction
Lecturer: Gu Zheng l Critic and Professor of Fudan University School of Journalism
Time: Saturday, June 10, 2017, 14: 30-17: 00
Venue: TFAM Auditorium
Co-panelist: Li-Hsin KUO | Critic, Associate Professor of Department of Radio & Television, National Chengchi University
Synopsis
Photography plays an important role for documenting the objective world, certainly true with today’s advances in digital technology, which have given us greater opportunities to explore the possibilities of fiction by photography. This lecture features works by Chinese contemporary photographers and artists and looks at how they explore imagination through photography, as well as how they interpret and understand modern life and culture.
Gu Zheng was born in 1959 in Shanghai, currently professor at the Fudan University School of Journalism in Shanghai, and he also serves as Vice-Director of that university’s Center for Information and Communication Studies. In 1998, Gu graduated from Osaka Prefecture University with a doctoral degree in comparative culture studies. Gu’s academic interests include 20th century modern art, contemporary Chinese photography, visual culture, visual communication and the history of photography. Gu Zheng’s published works include: International postmodern photography (2000), The Labyrinth of the Self-the Artist’s “Self” (2003), Urban Expressions-20th Century Urban Photography (2003), World History of Photography (2005), Breathing Just Like You and Me-A Century of Photography Legends (2006) and The Sixth Face of Modernity- Contemporary Visual Culture Research (2007).
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