Like Me Breathe: A Century of Photographic Legends

Author: Gu Zheng
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: "Like You and Me Breathe—A Century of Photographic Legends" is the new work collection of the renowned photographic critic and scholar, Professor Gu Zheng. The book presents us with a bewitching and unique abundance of beauty in the history of photography over a century through elegant and incisive prose. It uses photography as a starting point to delve deeply into the process of human civilization and social changes over the past hundred years. The twenty photographers selected for the book are distinctive or captivating, even including poets Allen Ginsberg and philosophy masters like Baudrillard. Their unconventional and even shocking individuality endows their works with stunning visual styles and a complete philosophical attitude, thereby radiating an undiminished personal charm and human brilliance over an entire century, truly deserving of the title "legend."