NOT CANONIZATION, NOT ARCHIVE FEVER: REVIEWING LEE FOOK CHEE'S HONG KONG. PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1950-S

Abstract

Through reviewing the photographic monograph Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong: Photographs from the 1950s, the author attempts to address recent phenomenon in visual arts and visual research, that is, canonization and the archive fever of using historic pictures in research and visual art practices. The author contextualizes the book project within the local milieu and the history of photography in Hong Kong in order to shed lights on the under-researched areas in Trans-Asia photography.