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...Viewed together, his photographs counter the conventional perception of China as a nation in the grip of rapid social change. Delano, an American who lives in Japan, has been traveling to China since 1994 and shot most of this collection in the late 1990s. But many of the photographs look much older. A woman humping a load of bricks up a cobblestone street in Yunnan, a peasant in a straw hat watching river boats, a beggar near the imperial palace?these scenes could date back to a time when the camera had only just been invented. This is deliberate. Delano...
Among the photographs in James Whitlow Delano's book Empire: Impressions from China, is an image of plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they...
...Like the view of Shanghai, many of Delano's China photographs, on exhibit in November at La Triennale di Milano Museum in Milan, Italy, use the tools of the darkroom to make a familiar scene eerie or allegorical. Delano shoots in black and white, but he prints in black and gray. His photos look as if they've been rubbed with charcoal and might smudge if touched. The China he depicts is a somber, worn, dusty place, often devoid of the hopeful gleam it wears on billboards, state TV?and in real life. Few of the people pictured smile...
...Chinese looking at images of older aspects of China?the narrow hutongs, children dressed like soldiers?often worry that they make the country appear backward. Delano doesn't try to allay such anxieties. Rather, the gloom and smog of his prints augment the impression that China is benighted, inscrutable, forlorn. If Delano were purely a journalist, we might demand a wider, more balanced view. But he's not. His photographs are the work of an artist and no matter what they choose to tell us, or not tell us, about China, their beauty makes us want to look at them...
...President -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt--who campaigned on the slogan "Don't change horses in the middle of the stream." On Commander in Chief, the nation has to: the President dies, and Vice President Mackenzie Allen (Geena Davis) succeeds him. But the presidents of ABC and Touchstone Television made the call to change horses themselves. CiC--following on Lost, Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy--was an immediate hit for the resurgent network. But creator Rod Lurie was having trouble with the grind of TV production. He was producing, writing and directing and was badly bogged down in minutiae. Scripts came...