Monday 11 February 20084:00 PMSteinberg Auditorium, Washington UniversityReception to follow in the Kemper Art Museum
Disappearing Shanghai: An Installation of Photographs by Howard FrenchMildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, February 1-March 3, 2008
With the eye of a photographer and the pen of a writer, Howard French has documented the unprecedented economic development that has swept China in recent decades. Part of this "modernization" is the creation of many new cities and the rebuilding of old urban areas. All of these developments come at a cost. Here French comments on the changes he has witnessed and recorded in his years of reporting on China, most recently as a resident of Shanghai himself.
Howard French, New York Times Bureau Chief in Shanghai, has spent most of his career in journalism as a foreign correspondent, working in and traveling to over 100 countries on five continents. Howard has had a lifelong interest in photography; as a journalist, he has worked alongside a great many highly skilled professional photographers. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Asia. http://www.howardwfrench.net/index.php
Sponsored by: East Asian Studies, International and Area Studies, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literature, Comparative Literature, and University College. For more info: 314.935.4448
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