LIANZHOU INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL AWARDS 2008
ARTISTS OF THE YEAR – GOLD AWARD
LUO DAN
JIN JIANGBO
ARTISTS OF THE YEAR – SILVER AWARD
FU WU
NADAV KANDER
ARTISTS OF THE YEAR – BRONZE AWARD
YAN YIBO
MATHIAS LEUPOLD
SPECIAL JURY AWARD
CAI QIWEN
AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONSTITUTION TO PHOTOGRAPHY ART OF THE
YEAR
ZHOU HAIYING
MEMORIAL AWARD OF PHOTOGRAPHY ART OF THE YEAR
SHI SHAOHUA
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"Übergangsgesellschaft" (Transition Stage) is an exhibition of photographs produced in the 1980s in the GDR. The works, which avoid pathos, are at once poetical and punctilious in the way they depict the mood of those momentous years.
In selecting pictures for the exhibition the Academy was not primarily concerned with the fall of the Wall, the demonstrations that preceded it or a chronicle of the popular movement. The exhibition focuses on the far-reaching changes, atmospheric and political, that were exploding the canonical rules governing image and were informing a new subjectivity in the work of artists. One theory posited by the exhibition is that it was precisely these changes that laid the ground for citizens' protest against the norms and aesthetics of a system. So it is that the exhibition at P...