Lot 768
  • 768

LONG CHIN-SAN | Music of The Fall

Estimate
60,000 - 100,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Long Chin-San (Lang Jinshan)
  • Music of The Fall
  • titled, signed and inscribed in Chinese, dated 1979 in Chinese sexagenary cycle and stamped with the artist's seal
  • gelatin silver print
  • 47.5 by 37.5 cm; 18 ¾ by 14 ¾ in.

Provenance

Private Asian Collection

Literature

Long Chin-San, Symphony in Black and White, Tongyun Bookstore, Shanghai, 1948,  p. 62
Techniques in Composite Picture-Making, The China Series Publishing Committee, Taipei, 1958 
Photographic Art of Chin-san Long, The Photographic Society of China, Taipei, 1972, p. 41
Photographer of China and the Technique of Making Composite Pictures, Echo Magazine, Taipei, 1975, cover
The Art of Photography by Chin-San Long, China Cultural Enterprises Ltd, Taipei, 1975, plate 3
Photographic Art by Chin-san Long, The Photographic Society of China, Taipei, 1987, p. 70
Kang Tien-Wang, Lin Chin-Tsong, ed., Idyllic Composite Pictures by Chin-San Long, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 1988, p. 86
The Collection of Hwa Kang Museum: The Photography of Mr Long Chin-San, Chinese Cultural University Hwa Kang Museum, Taipei, 1998, p. 39
Master of Photography: Long Chin-San, China Photography Press, Beijing, 2003, p. 23
Hsiao Yung-sheng, The Spirit and the Composite Pictures, Lang Chin-san, Hsiung-Shih Art Publisher, Taipei, 2004, p. 149
Cheng Yin Cultural Enterprise, ed., Long Chin-san’s Photographic Legend, Cheng Yin Cultural Enterprise Co. Ltd, Taipei, 2005, p.12
Hwa Kang Museum Selection (Vol. 14): The Photography of Long Chin-San, Chinese Cultural University Hwa Kang Museum, Taipei, 2011, p. 41
Hubei Provincial Museum, ed., Landscape on Negatives: A Special Exhibition of Long Chin-San’s Photographic Works, Cultural Relics Press, Beijing, 2012, p.36

Condition

There is very slight wear along the edges, otherwise the work is in its original condition.
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