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Hempstead Village
(Hardcover)
Reine Duell Bethany; Foreword by Mayor Don Ryan
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R842
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Discovery Miles 6 910
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Niu Guozheng hails from Henan, a province of inland China. Employed
in the law enforcement agency of the Pingdingshan prefecture, whose
economy is largely based on mining - an activity he has portrayed
in two distinct photographic series - Niu witnessed situations that
his own sense of justice considered as unjustifiable. He documented
living conditions in centres for custody and interrogation (in
Chinese 'shoushensuo'), thinking that the treatment of the
prisoners was not worthy of his country's ethics. His activity as a
camera-carrying policeman, accepted or tolerated by his colleagues
and by the inmates, was motivated by his belief that only knowledge
of facts can bring about the solution of problems. The centres for
custody and interrogation were shut in 1997 thanks to a reform of
the criminal justice process. Exhibited at the Central Academy of
Fine Arts in Beijing for a short time, Niu Guozheng's reportage has
not been published to date. His images, stark and disturbing in
some cases, tenderly poetic in others, characterise an eye that
merges the documentary intent with a very strong aesthetic
sensibility which reminds us of the classic masters of photography.
Text in English, Chinese, and Italian.
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