Liu Heung Shing
Liu Heung Shing (* 1951 in Hong Kong ) is a Chinese-American photographer and photojournalist .
Life
Liu spent his early childhood alternately in mainland China and Hong Kong. At the age of 16, Liu moved to the United States to study at the University of New York. As part of a traineeship at Life Magazin , he worked as a photographer. After graduating, he worked as a foreign correspondent and photo journalist for the magazine. As a correspondent in Beijing, he witnessed the rapid social change in China after its opening by Deng Xiaoping . After the publication of his illustrated book China after Mao , Newsweek magazine referred to him as " Henri Cartier Bresson of China". Liu's photo of the televised address in December 1991 in which Michael Gorbachev announced the dissolution of the Soviet Union became particularly famous . Together with colleagues he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Current Photo Reporting in 1992.
Publications
- China after Mao: Seek the Truth From Facts . Penguin Books, New York 1983.
- USSR: The Collapse of an Empire (1991)
- China, Portrait of a Country . Taschen , Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-83650-569-7 .
- Shanghai: A History in Photographs 1842-Today. Penguin Books, News York 2010, ISBN 978-0-67008-090-8 .
- China in Revolution: The Road to 1911 . Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong 2012, ISBN 978-9-88813-950-7 .
- A Life in a Sea of Red. Photojournalism by Liu Heung Shing. Steidl Verlag , Göttingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-95829-545-2 .
Web links
- Liu Heung Shing on the Steidl Verlag website
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Liu Heung Shing |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hong Kong |