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...Wolf's Inside is not the first book to contain such images. In 2007 Hong Kong photojournalist Vincent Yu published Our Home, Shek Kip Mei 1954-2006 - a work that included a collection of formal portraits of estate residents in their cramped dwellings, albeit in black and white. It is hard to see what, if anything, Wolf does differently. His images are not the result of an intimate rapport between photographer and subject, but of an almost unbridgeable distance: the sitters are showing their best face to a foreign visitor, with many of them smiling for the camera. The result...
...Staff writer Xi Yu can be reached at xyu@college.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Xi Yu can be reached at xyu@college.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Xi Yu can be reached at xyu@college.harvard.edu...
...diplomatic rumor mill in East Asia can be believed, Kim Jong Il - clearly back in charge, sources in Seoul say, after his stroke in September 2008 - is said to be readying for a visit to Beijing to meet with President Hu Jintao. (Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu, showing if nothing else that the Chinese have mastered the art of the nondenial denial, said that she had "not heard of such news.") (See pictures of of Kim Jong...