FUSIONartPHOTOGRAPHY.........: that's shanghai
“Adults Only” has a sexual connotation but the magazine is far from that…........
it is a magazine read by both westerners and chinese…................full of interviews/articles/where to go/restaurants/bars/survival mechanisms/found in galleries/restaurants/........a must have magazine/can be bought in China and online Books published by “thats shanghai” maybe bought world wide.
The staff /both chinese and western/ and particularly the editor Steven Crane and his co editor/Miriam Raymond were awesome and my life with them made so very easy. I would visit the office , check out the scene and then return home to work and send them any requests by courier.
What I love best about the cover is the name/that famous name/Thomas Keneally and I shook with excitement when 1st viewed the magazine and at that very moment my work faded into insignificance . I hardly knew a soul in those days in Shanghai but strangely that added to the excitement…........... it was rather like a ‘Shanghai affair’.............an element of mystery and secrecy but no repercussions! ............
Oct/’09
Just a few more thoughts on this image.
On the day I met the magazine team at “that’s shanghai” office, Steven Crane said, during the meeting, “Pretend Shanghai was once a young girl and now she is a sofisticated young woman”......so what would you create.
I thought ….mmmm….I think I could do that…...so this was basically the 1st complex fusing of images.
Seemed so appropriate that the Hyatt would be running up her leg….....Probably took about 8 hours as had no photographs of the Bund and had to do these in watercolour and then photograph them. This is one of the very very few times i have added another medium. The original was another color and they asked if I minded if they changed the colour. My response was….....do whatever you like/was very pleased and got the impression that it was immediately accepted .This was on the cover of the next months’ magazine.
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Jen Cannella
Fantastic work!
shanghaiwu
jen cannella
fantastic you and love your comments
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yifan
thankyou for adding this to your favourites/this means so much to me/it was the chinese staff who looked at the original image and said yes /yes. They asked if I minded if they changed the colour…..my reaction was..who cares…........I could not believe they were actually going to use the image.
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rikki paul
thankyou for adding me to your watchlist
snowwombat
Great work…
shanghaiwu replied
snowwombat
thankyou for great/this is special to me as it was the 1st reasonably complex piece I had tried/also one of the few times I have combined illustrations/water colour and photographs/at that stage had no real decent photos of Bund buildings
Leno
Great story and illustration….one interesting person you are!
shanghaiwu replied
leno
thankyou for your comments/so much appreciated
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leno
thankyou for adding this image to your favourites
Ken Boxsell
A magnificent fusion of work shanghaiwu
shanghaiwu replied
ken/so wonderful you have commented/I actually love this/I look at it and think..did I really do this
thankyou very much
mscholl21
love this. so fabulous
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michael scholl
Have to tell you this is my very favourite/thankyou for your comments/so much appreciated
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theyellowfury
thankyou for adding this image to your favourites