Overview
A study of the work of celebrated Hong Kong photographer and designer Basil Pao. Carnival of Dreams offers a glimpse into the wide-ranging, fifty-year career of the internationally renowned Hong Kong photographer and designer through his work in collages and photomontages. From his early album covers when he was an art director and designer for the music industry in New York, Los Angeles, and London in the 1970s, through his diverse international assignments and personal works, to his most recent exhibition in Hong Kong, the story encompasses his long journey from cut-and-paste collages to the computer-composited photomontages of dreamscapes in this Carnival of Dreams.
Full Product Details
Author: Basil Pao ,
Pico Iyer
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789888805747
ISBN 10: 9888805746
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 28 June 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Like his Surrealist forebear René Magritte, Basil Pao began his artistic career as a graphic designer, creating album and book covers and Monty Python posters in 1970s New York. In the decades since, he's harnessed his multimedia talents into a solo oeuvre of visually and conceptually surprising photographs and collages: of people, animals, historical sites and landscapes around the world.""-- ""The New York Times""
"""Like his Surrealist forebear Ren� Magritte, Basil Pao began his artistic career as a graphic designer, creating album and book covers and Monty Python posters in 1970s New York. In the decades since, he's harnessed his multimedia talents into a solo oeuvre of visually and conceptually surprising photographs and collages: of people, animals, historical sites and landscapes around the world.""-- ""The New York Times"""
"""Like his Surrealist forebear René Magritte, Basil Pao began his artistic career as a graphic designer, creating album and book covers and Monty Python posters in 1970s New York. In the decades since, he's harnessed his multimedia talents into a solo oeuvre of visually and conceptually surprising photographs and collages: of people, animals, historical sites and landscapes around the world.""-- ""The New York Times"""
""Like his Surrealist forebear René Magritte, Basil Pao began his artistic career as a graphic designer, creating album and book covers and Monty Python posters in 1970s New York. In the decades since, he's harnessed his multimedia talents into a solo oeuvre of visually and conceptually surprising photographs and collages: of people, animals, historical sites and landscapes around the world.""-- ""The New York Times"" ""Pao frames his 'Carnival of Dreams' as an escape, a representation of a 'collective unconscious.' However, the style of images that he pulls from are very much grounded in real life. Whether intentional or not, Carnival of Dreams becomes commentary on the language of mainstream travel documentation, and how what is 'foreign' is often made to stand in for what is outlandish, strange, and dreamlike. While the photomontages are visually stimulating and trace a formidable career deeply rooted in global events and spaces and art historical inspirations, the commentary they offer feels light and almost as substanceless as the clouded world that the acrobat traverses on the book's cover."" -- ""International Examiner""
Author Information
Basil Pao is a photographer and graphic designer from Hong Kong who has worked extensively on many film and television productions, notably with the BBC and Michael Palin on travel programs.
