CHEN MAN is China’s most influential and consistently original
photographer whose high-gloss, digitally enhanced images have
defined the look of New China chic.
This highly anticipated book, the most up-to-date overview of
Chen’s career, brings together more than 150 of the photographer’s
most extraordinary works and underlines her position as a
pioneer of China’s creative landscape.
Beginning in 2003, while still a student at the Central Academy of
Fine Arts in Beijing, Chen Man emerged at the vanguard of a new
generation of young artists seeking a fresh idea of Chinese creative
identity.
Over the following years she honed her own distinctive
brand of eclectic internationalism, drawing on a vast store of
visual material supplied by pop culture, high fashion, street style
and Chinese culture and history. To this she added an instinctive
flair for spectacle and grand performance.
Today she is one of the world’s most in-demand photographers,
described in 2013 by CNN Style as China’s answer to Annie
Leibovitz. Her photo shoots appear regularly in the pages of the
country’s high-fashion glossies and she is the creator of
acclaimed campaigns for numerous international brands and
fashion houses including Louis Vuitton, Dior, Dolce and Gabbana
and Chanel.
This stunning publication presents the culmination of Chen Man’s
creative career to date and confirms her position as one of the
most important photographers of the early 21st century and an
artist at the forefront of creative innovation in China.
Chen Man
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CHEN MAN is China’s most influential and consistently original
photographer whose high-gloss, digitally enhanced images have
defined the look of New China chic.
This highly anticipated book, the most up-to-date overview of
Chen’s career, brings together more than 150 of the photographer’s
most extraordinary works and underlines her position as a
pioneer of China’s creative landscape.
Beginning in 2003, while still a student at the Central Academy of
Fine Arts in Beijing, Chen Man emerged at the vanguard of a new
generation of young artists seeking a fresh idea of Chinese creative
identity.
Over the following years she honed her own distinctive
brand of eclectic internationalism, drawing on a vast store of
visual material supplied by pop culture, high fashion, street style
and Chinese culture and history. To this she added an instinctive
flair for spectacle and grand performance.
Today she is one of the world’s most in-demand photographers,
described in 2013 by CNN Style as China’s answer to Annie
Leibovitz. Her photo shoots appear regularly in the pages of the
country’s high-fashion glossies and she is the creator of
acclaimed campaigns for numerous international brands and
fashion houses including Louis Vuitton, Dior, Dolce and Gabbana
and Chanel.
This stunning publication presents the culmination of Chen Man’s
creative career to date and confirms her position as one of the
most important photographers of the early 21st century and an
artist at the forefront of creative innovation in China.