Author: Karen Smith
Title: Zhang Haier Les Filles.
Description: ludion, 2018 hardcover, 144 pages, 31,3 x 23,7 x 2 cm. fine. ISBN 9789491819858. ¶ Zhang Haier is one of todays most important Chinese photographers. His early work offers a unique picture of the underbelly of his countrys cities in the 1980s and 90s: Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hong Kong? His best-known photographs, however, are portraits of women: prostitutes, his wife, friends, anonymous subjects. Women he looks at with a clear sexual fascination. Yet the gaze is two-directional: the women are complicit in the privileged relationship that arises between model and photographer; they return his gaze, boldly and provocatively. In this way, 'Les Filles' testifies to a clearly defined era in China: the young women in the portraits struggle with the strict, moralistic society in which they are living.

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