KIRK PEDERSEN: URBAN ASIA PHOTOS is a large format paperback photography catalogue - 13 x 11 inches, 35 color reproductions from Hong Kong, Taipei, Bangkok, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, San Francisco and Shenyang, China. KIRK PEDERSEN: URBAN ASIA is the expanded hardcover version of this project published in early 2009.

Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia Photos

Arts & Photography

Kirk Pedersen

Photography & Video

KIRK PEDERSEN: URBAN ASIA is a large format photography book with 85 color reproductions from Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo and several cities in China. It is not a travel book and is unlike any other book on the cities of Asia. Photographer Jeff Brouws writes in the introduction: No other artist-photographer is doing exactly what he's doing. With this fluid approach, traveling from city to city with no grand theme in mind, his work is distinctly different from his contemporaries. Michael Wolf shoots exclusively in Hong Kong and China; Edward Burtynsky's extensive coverage of the Three Gorges Dam Project and other industrial sites has happened often within the territorial limits of China; and Sze Tsung Leong history images - scenes of rampant development and architectural spectacle - are confined to Shanghai. While they all might share continents and countries they don't share viewpoints. Pedersen's eclectic stance creates a different photographic yield - he reclaims the commonplace and the fragmentary in these spaces/places... Hardcover, cloth with paper jacket, edition 1000, 12 x 12 inches, Japanese matt paper with spot vanished images. Also available is a Special Edition with a signed photo in a clamshell box - edition 100 (40 reserved for the artist).

Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia

Jeff Brouws

David Pagel

Zero+ Publishing

Cloth with paper jacket, 12 x 12, 93 plates from Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Seoul, Bangkok, Hong Kong and several cities in China. James Scarborough writes... It's an intriguing project, Pedersen's attempt to anthropomorphize demographic data. It correlates with past work he's done, spending large blocks of time living and teaching, observing and photographing, the roil and boil of the urban Far East, where (or anywhere, for that matter) the detritus of advertising morphs into the collaged shards of a fragmented reality. That the people he photographs are emotionally and sociologically neutral is precisely the point. Pedersen works on the fringe of microeconomics and the behavior of the people its theories seek to explain. His esthetic folds into the consumption patterns of those he photographs. He walks a narrow line between cynicism and despair, finding unexpected beauty in the precise though fleeting moments each image captures.

Kirk Pedersen: Tradeoffs

James Scarborough

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