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Hong Kong Then and Now®
Hong Kong was first captured on camera when the British arrived to lay claim to its ‘fragrant harbour’ in 1841. Its fascinating history has been documented through photography ever since – from its rapid expansion as a Crown Colony to its handover to... Read more...
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Chungking Mansions: Photographs from Hong Kong's last ghetto
Squatting amid the luxury hotels and malls of modern Kowloon, Chungking Mansions resembles the dirty vent of a giant subterranean machine. This Hong Kong landmark is a hotbed of criminality and home to pimps, hookers, thieves and drug pushers. The fi... Read more...
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Over Hong Kong: 35th Anniversary
The first volume in the Over Hong Kong series was published in 1982. The photographer, Lew Roberts, had spent more than 100 hours of flying capturing the secret faces of Hong Kong. Very few people had seen those astonishing vistas, so here, in one... Read more...
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Cocoons
A 20+ year collection of photographs documenting Hong Kong's hauntingly beautiful construction sites encaged (cocooned!) in bamboo scaffolding, draped in brightly hued material. Since 1993, Peter Steinhauer has documented the many facets of Asian cul... Read more...
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Sunset Survivors: Meet the People Keeping Hong Kong's Traditional Industries Alive
Sunset Survivors tells the stories of Hong Kong's traditional tradesmen and women through stunning imagery and candid interviews. Covering a myriad of curious professions that are quickly falling into obscurity, from fortune telling to face thread... Read more...
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Picturing Hong Kong: Photography 1855-1910
A record of the landscape, architecture and people of Hong Kong with an insight into the history and sociology of the infant colony.
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Fan Ho: Hong Kong Yesterday
Hong Kong Yesterday presents a singular vision of this enigmatic city by award winning photographer, Fan Ho. Black and white images capturing life in mid-century Hong Kong range from quiet voyeuristic tableaus to chaotic crowds, most focusing on the ... Read more...
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Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, Volume 1
Not your typical photo book! David Bellis, founder of the popular local history website Gwulo.com, shows you a selection of his favourite photos of old Hong Kong. So far, so familiar. But then he takes you on a deep dive to discover and understand th... Read more...
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Michael Wolf: Architecture Of Density (the Outside Volume Of Hong Kong Inside/outside)
Stunning and sobering, the photographs of high-rise apartment buildings in Hong Kong by German photographer Michael Wolf reveal his personal fascination with life in mega-cities. Having lived there for several years, Wolf began to document Hong Kongs... Read more...
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Hong Kong Apothecary: A Visual History of Chinese Medicine Packaging
Hong Kong Apothecary transports us to the exotic world of Eastern medicine, a world of oils, powders, pills, and cures for every known ailment from impotency to opium addiction. As peculiar as pink pills for pale people are the packages containing th... Read more...
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