{"id":3263,"date":"2008-08-12T18:08:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T18:08:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-12T18:08:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T18:08:47","slug":"Contemporary-Photography-from-China","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=3263","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Photography from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>DNJ Gallery<\/b> is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition: <b>&#8220;Contemporary Photography from China&#8221;<\/b> which includes the work of eight emerging artists living and working in China: <b>Lei Benben, Song Chao, Wang Fuchun, Gao Hongxun, Pei Xuehong, Jiang Jian, Wang Tong and Chen Xiaoling.<\/b> Each artist has a distinct approach to the medium of photography that reflect altering responses to the changes taking place in China&#39;s economy, society and culture. For most of these artists in the exhibition, this will be their first gallery show in the United States. A percentage of exhibition sales will be donated to earthquake relief assistance through the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles.  <\/p>\n<p> Photography in China has made many advances since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976.  Over the next 30 years, photography emerged from its initial use as a propaganda tool to evolving into images of ideas about consumerism.  Eventually, photography as an art form became more popular in the 1980&#39;s, especially as living standards and personal wealth increased. In the mid-1990s, Chinese photography was linked to an ongoing avant-garde art movement, often referred to by Chinese artists and critics as &#8220;experimental photography.&#8221; The medium&#39;s versatility and almost instantaneous nature have become synonymous with the celerity of change in China. <\/p>\n<p> This exhibition is guest curated by <b>Wang Rui<\/b>, a freelance photographer based in Los Angeles, as well as an international photography curator, critic, historian and organizer. He has published a significant amount of articles on both photography history and criticism, and has lectured on the subject of photography at various universities and institutes. <b>Wang Rui<\/b> also has been the chief executive of the 2006 Pingyao International Forum on Photography and 2008 China (Jinan) Contemporary International Photography Biennial. <\/p>\n<p> <b>&#8220;Contemporary Photography from China&#8221;<\/b> opens from July 26 to September 6, 2008. DNJ Gallery is located at 154 1\/2 N. La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90006, between 1st and Beverly Blvd. in the West Hollywood neighborhood. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnjgallery.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.dnjgallery.net<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNJ Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition: &#8220;Contemporary Photography from China&#8221; which includes the work of eight emerging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"njaiyo","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"DNJ Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition: &#8220;Contemporary Photography from China&#8221; which includes the work of eight emerging","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":140,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"njaiyo","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=6"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/255e26fc52858afad234c2c1d44c946e16c565fd0ef5615b0c1caa793897759d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}