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Thinking about Hong Kong... Here's a rare colour photograph of this marvelous, infinite, impossible and yet so real city in the 1950s by Fan Ho—probably the greatest among its photographers. Here are a few more instagram.com/p/CAzp9OsHWKQ/

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Federico Italiano

@FedeItaliano76

May 30, 2020

Fan Ho's portraits of Hong Kong did not only document a fascinating urban reality, but it created a way of seeing, it shaped our spatial imagination, contributing incalculably to the perception of our own cities

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Federico Italiano

@FedeItaliano76

May 30, 2020

But, of course, he was a master of photography tout court. His geometries still teach us how to school our gaze, to decentre oneself in order to see the patterns below the surface of things