Photographs concerning: globalization, Photography, and the People's Republic of China.It is commonly known that incredible changes are well underway in the world's most populous pop·u·lous adj. Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population. [Middle English, from Latin popul nation. Traditions are rapidly being altered, the culture is continually responding to such pressures. It may also be obvious yet nonetheless important to state that monetary gain is--as it has long been--the major driving force behind such trends. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bleu Cease is a graduate of Warren-Wilson College where he studied Psychology, Philosophy, and Photography and is currently a graduate student at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester N.Y. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] These images have been selected from a larger body of work. They examine some of the issues facing the People's Republic People's Republic n. A political organization founded and controlled by a national Communist party. of China. This analysis and resulting comment relates to other parts of the world and their respective problematic relationships to what we summarily refer to as globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As a foreigner Foreigner All institutions and individuals living outside the United States, including US citizens living abroad, and branches, subsidiaries, and other affiliates abroad of US banks and business concerns; also central governments, central banks, and other official institutions of , the visual juxtaposition juxtaposition /jux·ta·po·si·tion/ (-pah-zish´un) apposition. jux·ta·po·si·tion n. The state of being placed or situated side by side. and interplay of what seemed to be disparate cultural symbols, were quite striking. When considered along with the far-reaching complexity of economic, social, and political issues represented therein, such scenes seemed at least ironic and sometimes quite disturbing. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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