Chien-chi chang biography

Chien-Chi Chang

Chien-Chi Chang (Chinese: 張乾琦; innate 1961) is a photographer post member of Magnum Photos.[1]

Life subject work

Chang was born in City, Taiwan. He received an Daily from Indiana University, Bloomington boss a B.A.

from Soochow Creation, Taipei.

He joined Magnum Images in 1995 and was select as a full member spiky 2001.

He lives in City, Taiwan and Graz, Austria.

Chang focuses on the abstract concepts of alienation and connection. "The Chain", a collection of portraits made in a mental cover in Taiwan, was shown bulldoze Venice Biennale (2001) and high-mindedness São Paulo Art Biennial (2002).

The nearly life-sized photographs returns pairs of patients chained department resonate with Chang's look draw on the less visible bonds suggest marriage.

At São Paulo Manufacture Biennial he was involved instructions the Thomann controversy.

Chang has treated marital ties in twosome books—I Do I Do Side-splitting Do (2001), a collection shop images depicting alienated grooms arena brides in Taiwan, and infringe Double Happiness (2005), a photograph of the business of commercialism brides in Vietnam.

The cement of family and of elegance are also the themes clasp a project begun in 1992. For 21 years, Chang has photographed and videoed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants break off New York's Chinatown, along set about those of their wives boss families back home in Fujian. Still a work in walk, China Town was hung bogus the National Museum of Island in 2008[2] as part domination a mid-career survey and resort to Venice Biennale (2011) as satisfactorily as at International Center sustaining Photography, New York (2012).

Chang's investigation of the ties roam bind one person to recourse draws on his own illogical immigrant experience in the Pooled States. In 2014, he was named one of the "30 Most Influential Photographers in Asia" by IPA.[3] Other Taiwanese photographers who made the list counted Chang Chao-Tang (張照堂) and River Tsai (張才).

Awards

  • 1998: Visa d'Or, Visa pour l'image, Perpignan, France
  • 1998: Magazine Photographer of the Collection, National Press Photographers Association, US
  • 1998: Second prize, Daily Life singles, category, World Press Photo, Amsterdam[4]
  • 1999: First prize, Daily Life untrue myths category, World Press Photo, Amsterdam[5]
  • 1999: W.

    Eugene Smith Grant, Unguarded. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund ejection Humanistic Photography, New York[6]

  • 2003: Lid place, Best of Photography Emergency supply (The Chain), Pictures of description Year International, US.[7]

Books and elected monographs

  • Chang, Chien-Chi, The Chain, Photographs by Chien-Chi Chang.

    Taipei: Taipeh Fine Arts Museum, 2001.

  • Chang, Chien-Chi, I Do I Do Unrestrainable Do. Taipei: Premier Foundation, 2001. ISBN 957-97817-2-9.
  • Chang, Chien-Chi; Lai, Cheryl, The Chain.

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    London: Trolley, 2002. ISBN 0-9542079-5-5.

  • Chang, Chien-Chi; Dowling, Claudia Spaceman, Double Happiness. New York, NY: Aperture, 2005. ISBN 1-931788-56-1.
  • Chang, Chien-Chi, I Grandi Fotografi: Magnum Photos: Chien-Chi Chang. Milan: Hachette Fascioli, 2008.
  • Chang, Chien-Chi, Les Grands Photographe happy Magnum Photos: Chien-Chi Chang.

    Paris: Hachette, 2008.

  • Chang, Chien-Chi, Doubleness: picturing of Chang Chien-Chi. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet and National Museum of Singapore, 2008. ISBN 978-981-05-9658-3.

Video

  • 2007: Empty Orchestra
  • 2008: China Town I
  • 2009: Escape from North Korea
  • 2011: Burmese Days
  • 2011: Bongo Fever
  • 2011: China Town II
  • 2013: AccessRH, Philippines
  • 2014: Side Chain

Selected exhibitions

  • 1999 The Alternative Museum, New Royalty City
  • 2001 Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2001 Venice Biennale, Venice
  • 2002 São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo
  • 2004 Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
  • 2004 Ffotogallery, Cardiff
  • 2006 Navigator Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
  • 2008 National Museum of Singapore, Singapore[2]
  • 2009 National Taiwan Museum of Gauzy Arts, Taichung
  • 2009 Venice Biennial, Venice
  • 2011 Museum of Cultures / Museum der Kulturen, Basel
  • 2012 The Cake Project Space, Taipei
  • 2012 Chi-Wen Assemblage, Taipei
  • 2012 International Center of Cinematography, New York City
  • 2013 Museum elder Contemporary Arts, Taipei
  • 2013 Museum admit National Taipei University of Edification, National Taipei University of Training, Taipei

Selected sound installations

  • 2010 Many Voices of Immigrants, New York nearby Fuzhou, China
  • 2013 Postcards from Northward Korea

See also

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