Description: Ren Hang Hardcover 2017 Taschen Books Text in English, French, German.Unopened in publisher's original shrink wrap. Free domestic shipping USPS Media Mail. Ren Hang, who took his life February 23, 2017, was an unlikely rebel. Slight of build, shy by nature, prone to fits of depression, the 29-year-old Beijing photographer was nonetheless at the forefront Chinese artists battle for creative freedom. Like his champion Ai Weiwei, Ren was controversial in his homeland and wildly popular in the rest of the world. He said, I dont really view my work as taboo, because I dont think so much in cultural context, or political context. I dont intentionally push boundaries, I just do what I do.Why? Because his models, friends, and in his last years, fans, are naked, often outdoors, high in the trees or on the terrifyingly vertiginous rooftops of Beijing, stacked like building blocks, heads wrapped in octopi, body cavities sprouting phone cords and flowers, whatever entered his mind at the moment. He denied his intentions were sexual, and there is a clean detachment about even his most extreme images: the urine, the insertions, the many, many erections. In a 2013 interview VICE magazine asked, there are a lot of dicks do you just like dicks? Ren responded, Its not just dicks Im interested in, I like to portray every organ in a fresh, vivid and emotional way. True though that may be, the penises Ren photographed were not just fresh and vivid, but unusually large, making one wonder just where he met his friends.In the same piece, Hang also stated, Gender isnt important when Im taking pictures, it only matters to me when Im having sex, making him a pioneer of gender inclusiveness. Young fans still eagerly flock to his website and Facebook, Instagram, and Flickr accounts. His photographs, all produced on film, have been the subject of over 20 solo and 70 group shows in his brief six-year career, in cities as disparate as Tokyo, Athens, Paris, New York, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Vienna, and yes, even Beijing. He self-published 16 monographs, in tiny print runs, that now sell for up to $ 600. TASCHENs Ren Hang is his only international collection, covering his entire career, with well-loved favorites and many never-before-seen photos of men, women, Beijing, and those many, many erections. We take solace remembering Rens joy when he first held the book, shared by his long-time partner Jiaqi, featured on the cover.
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Book Title: Ren Hang
Original Language: English
Item Length: 9 in
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Hardcover
Language: English, French, German
Item Height: 12 in
Personalized: No
Features: Illustrated
Topic: Artists, Contemporary Art, Cultural History, Erotic Photography, Fine Arts, First Aid, LGBT Studies, Lifestyle, Photographers, Popular Culture
Item Width: 1.5 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Taschen
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Picture Book
Author: Dian Hanson
Genre: Adult & Erotic, Art & Culture, Fantasy, Imagery, Leisure, Hobbies & Lifestyle, LGBT, Modern & Contemporary, Photography, Sexuality
Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy
Item Weight: 60 oz
Number of Pages: 312
