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DAY 138 | PHOTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITIES |
Performance Art Meets Photography
CUTTING-EDGE CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY
It’s a typical day in Beijing. Pedestrians go about their daily business, strolling along a city sidewalk...until they come across the figure of a man who appears to have crash-landed head first into the pavement. His body is ramrod straight and motionless. Onlookers seem mildly perplexed. This is an example of the self-styled performance art that Li Wei photographs.
Li Wei Falls to the Earth, 2002. Photo © Li Wei.
Wei states that he ...
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