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PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai is coming this weekend!!

Event: PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai
Time: 11: Protected content , Protected content 2017
Ticketing: Protected content

This September, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai returns to China for the fourth year to celebrate the art of the photographic medium. Taking place at the Shanghai Exhibition Center from Protected content 2017, the fair is widely recognised as Asia Pacific’s home for cutting-edge photography and a key driver of China’s maturing photography market.

Ambitious, museum-quality presentations throughout the Protected content will bring together emerging and established artists who push the boundaries of the photographic medium, and challenge the notion of what photography can be. With this sole focus on photography, PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai offers collectors, curators and visitors from across the Asia Pacific region an unparalleled site of discovery.

Strong sales and an increasing number of collectors and buyers attending PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai since its launch in Protected content greatly supported the development of the photographic medium in China, now the world’s largest art market.

50 galleries and institutions spanning 28 cities and 16 countries will be showcased, making this the most international edition to date. The Protected content is defined by cutting-edge photography from emerging and established artists rarely available to acquire in China.

Here are the artists that you should definitely check out:

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer and filmmaker known as a pioneer of street photography. His dramatic black-and-white documentary images are among the most iconic in the medium of photography, including indelible images of major political moments in the 20th century.

Robert Mapplethorpe

As an American photographer known for his black-and-white portraits and for documenting New York’s S&M scene, Robert Mapplethorpe was concerned with Classical aspects of beauty, whether in his nudes, floral still lifes, or self-portraits—light, shadow, composition, and form were central to all his work.

William Eggleston

William Eggleston is one of the most influential photographers of the latter half of the 20th century. His portraits and landscapes of the American South reframed the history of the medium and its relationship to color photography.

Patrick Demarchelier

Patrick Demarchelier is a world-renowned French fashion photographer. Responsible for countless iconic images created for publications such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, he is perhaps best known for his intimate portraits of Princess Diana that helped establish her popularity and accessible public image.

Daido Moriyama

As a Japanese street photographer best known for his confrontational, black-and-white images, Daido Moriyama’s influence on the medium of photography has been profound, notably for his rejection of technical precision in favor of more expressive, grainy, and high-contrast images.

Nobuyoshi Araki

The photography about women of this Japanese contemporary erotic photographer has been widely controversial worldwide and has a great influence in Asia.

Ren Hang

Mostly known for his nude photographic portraits, significant in a society that is heavily censored, Ren Hang has been arrested several times throughout his career due to the erotic undertones of his projects. The Chinese photographer commited suicide back in February.

Birdhead

Song Tao and Ji Weiyu make up the artist collective BIRDHEAD, whose oeuvre consists of (mostly black and white) photographic images of everyday life in Shanghai. Their large-scale installation 'Welcome to Birdhead' captures the ever-changing nature of the city.

Feel free to come along if you are interested in art/photography!!

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