Friday, June 3, 2011
Galleries / Last Night / Visual Art
First Thursday at 49 Geary with the Beautiful and the Braless
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By Larissa Archer
on Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:00 AM
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Fan Ho (center) speaks with his public.
Fan Ho's photographs from the 1950s and '60s are fascinating for the city life they depict and also for his inventiveness with composition. Several modern prints in the exhibit he created by scanning multiple negatives he had taken in the 1950s, or the same negative multiple times, and merging them together in Photoshop.
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Fan Ho
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Approaching Shadow
The results are strikingly Art Deco, an ordinary bustling narrow market street is now all jagged edges bursting out of a still center. Even unaltered images show a feeling for making visual impact using strong geometric shapes. A woman in a cheongsam stands against the wall of a tall, windowless white building. An adjacent wall casts a diagonal shadow ending at her feet, which she stares at dejectedly. Or at least I think what I'm seeing is dejection; such is the effect of the vast white walls, the sharp harsh light and darkness, the minuteness of the lonely figure at the bottom.
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