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Li Yuan-ChiaThe Chinese-born, but later British-based artist, Li Yuan-Chia (1929-1994) is now regarded as China’s first Conceptual artist. He produced a series of lyrical photographs in the last years of his life – many were still life compositions with his sculptures, flowers and stones, and others were images of himself performing shaman-like for his own camera in his garden in Cumbria, with his face obscured or facing away from the viewer. After working for decades in painting, sculpture and installation, Yuan-Chia evolved this late immersion in photography in a highly personal, spiritual way. He hand-coloured and tinted many of his photographs, giving them an otherworldly, strangely timeless quality.
England & Co is presenting a selection of Li Yuan-Chia's unique hand-coloured photographs at Paris Photo 2024, 7-10 November.
21.5 x 19.8 cm
Unique hand-coloured black and white print
24.5 x 19.8 cm
Unique hand-coloured black and white print
19.8 x 22.2 cm
Unique hand-coloured black and white print
40.8 x 40.5 cm
Unique hand-coloured black and white print