Chongqing on the four banks of passing time.
EXB Workshop| N° d'inventaire | 23974 |
| Format | 19 x 24 |
| Détails | 104 p., 44 color photographs, publisher's cloth binding. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365112925 |
Cyrus Cornut used a 4x5 view camera to photograph the Chinese city of Chongqing, which is experiencing one of the fastest growing populations in the world with its 34 million inhabitants. Nicknamed the "capital of fog," Chongqing is often immersed in a natural haze mixed with that of endemic pollution linked to its rapid development. Working with a view camera, the photographer, an architect by training, takes a contemplative yet attentive look at the signs of the explosion of the urban fabric in Asia.
"He also focused on the inhabitants, markers of human scale, notably on the former peasants who resist by appropriating the slightest gap to cultivate their vegetables, who continue to fish or bathe in the waters of the Yangzi or its tributary, the Jialing, as if nothing had happened. His images perfectly describe the ambiguities of the modern world and the excess of limitless economic development," as Sylvie Hugues emphasizes in her text, without ever imposing a message or political vision. Composed like urban paintings with a subtle color palette, these photographs exude both a silent resilience and a melancholy of this state between two worlds.
Cyrus Cornut used a 4x5 view camera to photograph the Chinese city of Chongqing, which is experiencing one of the fastest growing populations in the world with its 34 million inhabitants. Nicknamed the "capital of fog," Chongqing is often immersed in a natural haze mixed with that of endemic pollution linked to its rapid development. Working with a view camera, the photographer, an architect by training, takes a contemplative yet attentive look at the signs of the explosion of the urban fabric in Asia.
"He also focused on the inhabitants, markers of human scale, notably on the former peasants who resist by appropriating the slightest gap to cultivate their vegetables, who continue to fish or bathe in the waters of the Yangzi or its tributary, the Jialing, as if nothing had happened. His images perfectly describe the ambiguities of the modern world and the excess of limitless economic development," as Sylvie Hugues emphasizes in her text, without ever imposing a message or political vision. Composed like urban paintings with a subtle color palette, these photographs exude both a silent resilience and a melancholy of this state between two worlds.