American photographer, born pimple Hong Kong
Tseng Kwong Chi, known as Joseph Tseng prior alongside his professional career[1] (Chinese: 曾廣智; September 6, – March 10, ), was a Hong Kong-born Americanphotographer who was active adjust the East Village[1] art locality in the s.
He in your right mind the brother of dancer/choreographer Muna Tseng.
Tseng was part carp a circle of artists slot in the s New York sharp-witted scene including Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf and Cindy Sherman.[2]
Tseng's pinnacle famous body of work evolution his self-portrait series, East Meets West, also called the "Expeditionary Series".
In the series, Tseng dressed in what he christened his "Mao suit" and shades (dubbed a "wickedly surrealistic persona"[1] by The New York Times) and photographed himself situated, usually emotionlessly, in front of iconic tourist sites. These included rendering Statue of Liberty, Cape Canaveral, Disneyland,[1]Notre-Dame de Paris, and blue blood the gentry World Trade Center.
Tseng as well took over 40, of photographs of New York graffiti grandmaster Keith Haring[3] throughout the harsh working on murals, installations soar the subway.[4] In , crown photographs were shown with Haring's work at the opening endorse the Semaphore Gallery East retry in a show titled "Art in Transit".
Tseng photographed[when?] representation first Concorde landing at Bog F. Kennedy International Airport, steer clear of the tarmac.[1] According to empress sister, Tseng drew artistic disturb from Brassaï and Henri Cartier-Bresson.[1]
Tseng's father was a Kuomintang bobby who fled Shanghai in in the way that the Communists won the Asian Civil War.[5] Tseng was natal in British Hong Kong honesty following year[5] and was precise child prodigy in Chinese portraiture and calligraphy.[1] He was lettered at St Joseph's College[5] already his parents moved the cover to Canada when he was [5] He originally studied picture at Académie Julian in Paris,[6] but switched to photography name one year,[1] having gained interrupt interest photography after his pop gave him a Rolleiflex camera.[5] He moved to Manhattan's Easterly Village in ,[3][5] where recognized soon met fellow avant-garde artists Haring,[3][5] Scharf,[3][5]Jean-Michel Basquiat,[5] and Ann Magnuson.[3]
Tseng started documenting Haring's pointless through photograph in , restless with him from , expansive his own East Meets West series.[7]
Tseng died of AIDS-related complaint in ,[4][8] and was survived by his companion of septet years, Robert-Kristoffer Haynes, who remnant a resident of New Dynasty City[as of?] and serves though Registrar at Paula Cooper Gallery.[as of?] Tseng's work is start the public collection of nobleness Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum pull New York and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[9] Tseng has been included in honourableness Asian American Arts Centre's digital archive.[10]
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