{"product_id":"you-li-all-that-is","title":"You Li: All That is","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAuthor: You Li\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBook Design: Shao Nian @ Public Labor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-988-71352-3-4\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpecifications: 145 × 216 × 15 mm, 216 pages,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eclothbound hardcover with rounded spine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese images do not, in themselves, depend on explanation. Yet the making of this book came with certain external demands. There needed to be a text—something that could explain what these images are, what was photographed, and how they are organized. There needed to be a structure that could be read. These demands came from different places, but they all pointed toward the same thing: making the images understandable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe photographs remain still, where they are.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey existed before this book, before the text. Even before the shutter closed, these images were already there.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey might be described as emerging from memory, dreams, hallucinations; from visual images that return again and again; from experiences and sensations that resist classification and remain without order. But even such descriptions cannot restore the state in which they were encountered at the moment of photographing. They belong to a private experience that only comes into being through looking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuch experiences cannot be transferred. Photography is about how you understand the world. It therefore points toward the way seeing takes shape at a particular moment. What the reader encounters is not the meaning of these images, but the way seeing itself takes place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCertain spaces appear again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCertain faces appear again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCertain kinds of light do too.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI recognized them and made photographs of them, in a way that resembles writing, but not storytelling. They were never stories to begin with. I did not photograph them in order to explain them. From the outset, these photographs did not exist for the sake of explanation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYears later, looking through these photographs again, I find that they still hold that space open, while I have already left the coordinates from which they were made. I am no longer inside the images, no longer within the first person of that moment. Time has altered the scale of looking. It has also allowed me to see what I did not notice then, but can no longer ignore now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jiazazhi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53975648174191,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0138\/9366\/4822\/files\/9f51552b11f9d48d1aa47638aceefcfb.jpg?v=1786077126","url":"https:\/\/jiazazhistore.com\/products\/you-li-all-that-is","provider":"Jiazazhi","version":"1.0","type":"link"}