Limited edition of 350 copies with a signed c print by the artist Xu Yong 20cm X 16 cm(size of the c print)
Xu Yong NEGATIVES introduction by Markus Schaden, founder of the Photobook Museum:
The current decade, only half past, deserves a look to the current score. The photobook has achieved popularity, quality and quantity unexpectedly high dimensions. All the more important content and the digital world calls for and the digital photo book. But maybe the right way is indeed in between. This shows an outstanding concept of the Chinese photographer Xu Yong with his brilliant photobook NEGATIVE! A hybrid between analogy and digital. What demands Xu Yong? The viewer can or must reverse the printed in negative colour photographs with his smartphone and thus becomes a (positive) developers in their own digital darkroom. The theme: politically explosive: The China still taboo recordings of the protests on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989. Fantastic and pioneering. The photobook has arrived in the new decade.
模拟影像时代，底片的物质性是区别今天数字影像的最基本特质，其化学介质一经感光成像殊难篡改，且不因时间而泯灭。《Negatives》重申强调这样的概念，并通过手机的色彩反转功能将负像转变为正像，与每位观者互动，使其直接参与作品延伸阅读，体验传统胶片影像与今天数字时代的趣味关系。罗兰·巴特说：“摄影所无限复制的仅发生过一回，它机械地重复着那些再也不能重生的存在”。
