Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Liu Heung Shing 刘香成  
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Liu Heung Shing

 
 

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Liu Heung Shing 刘香成 pinyin Liu Xiangcheng
Founder and Director of the Shanghai Center of Photography ( S.C.O.P. )

 

 

1951

Liu Heung Shing  刘香成  was born in Hong Kong .

 

 

1975

He graduated from Hunter College of New York University. ( Political Science )

   
 

Photojournalist, he works as a special correspondent for the Associated Press, New York.

1979 / 1983

  • in Beijing  China.

1983 / 1985

  • in Los Angeles  United States.

1985 / 1989

  • in New Delhi  India.

1989 / 1990

  • in Seoul  South Korea.

1990 / 1993

  • in Moscow  Soviet Union.
   

   

Awards selection

1983

Nicknamed the Henri Cartier Bresson of China by Newsweek magazine

1989

Named Best Photographer by the Associate Editors of Press Management.

1991

Overseas Press Club Award for his work with the Associated Press.

1992

Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

2005

Cited among the 100 most influential contemporary photographers by Paris Photo.

   

   
 

He is the author of several books :

2008

China : portrait d'un pays - Taschen  ( an archive of 88 Chinese photographers

 

for the 1949 portrait of communist China )

2011

Shanghai, A History in Photographs 1842 to Today  - Penguin Global

2012

China in Revolution: The Road to 1911  - Hong Kong University Press

   
  He lives and works in Beijing  China.
   
 

Danièle Sicard

   

   
 

Solo exhibitions  selection

   

1994

Collapse of the Soviet Union Hong Kong Arts Centre Hong Kong  China

2009

25.0615.10 China : Portrait of a Country Casia Asia Madrid   Spain

2009

08.08 19 09 Seek Truth from Facts  - Photographs 1978- 1983 Three Shadows Photography

 

Art Centre Beijing  China

2011

19.01 31.03 China after Mao Coalmine Fofogalerie Winterthur  Switzerland

2013

26.07 27.08 China Dream, Thirty Years China Art Museum Shanghai  China

2019

21.03 18.05 Spring Breeze Star Gallery Beijing  China

   
 

Collective exhibitions  selection

   

2004

100 years of Forbidden City International Photography Festival Beijing  China

2013

26.10 26.01 From New Photography to Rooky Award Three Shadows Photography Art Centre

 

Beijing  China

2015

01.07 20.09The M+ Sigg Collection:Chinese Art from the 1970s to Now The Whitworth Art Gallery

 

Manchester United Kingdom

2016

23.02 05.04 M+ Sigg Collection:of Chinese Contemporary Art Four Decades M+H K Hong Kong

2016

24.08 08.09 La Chine: du grain au pixel, de 1980 à aujourd’hui SCoP Shanghai  China

2019

29.03 31.03 Art Basel Hong Kong  China

   

 
 

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Liu Heung Shing - CHINA AFTER MAO  

CHINA AFTER MAO : "Seek Truth From Facts"  

Penguin Books

 

Photographs by Liu Heung Shing

1983

  en anglais  
 

isbn : 9780140067613

 
 

176 p

 
     
     
 
       

 
 

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Seek Truth from Facts Liu Heung Shing Photographs 1978 - 1983   
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