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Yau Leung 邱良
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1960s
Exemplifying Yau Leung’s aesthetic that bridges Hong Kong’s documentary practice of the 1950s and the more poetic compositions typical of the 1960s Salon style, this monochrome photograph offers a glimpse into Hong Kong’s industrial past. Taken at a time when Hong Kong was known as one of the leading producers and exporters of the finest plastic goods in the world, the photograph depicts a lively scene of the pavilion of Star Industrial Co. Ltd—one of Hong Kong’s biggest plastics company—at the Exhibition of Hong Kong Products in the 1960s. The busy pavilion and the trove of plastic products point to the city‘s golden era of plastic production and its past as an industrial powerhouse in the post-war decades. The image was featured in Photo Pictorial—a monthly photographic journal founded in 1964 by publisher Li Qing and photographers Tchan Fou-Li and Mak Fung to promote the cultures and landscapes of a closed-door China.
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