Title Translations

I have some continuing translation work for the photography book I mentioned before. Right now I'm helping to translate titles of some photographic works.  Most of them are pretty straightforward, but I am showing those below in order to get help. The photographs are all beautiful and an interesting window to Chinese photography in the 1930's-40's; I'm excited to see the book in it's final form!

吴中行 Wu Zhongxing, 恨晨光只熹微  Depressing Dim Light of Dawn, or Regretting the Light of Dawn  . Perhaps he feels a regret (hatred?) of the passage of time?

 司徒怀（沙飞）Situ Huai (Sha Fei),绿波留恋浣纱人 Green Waves Yearning for the Washerwomen. Or, less poetic, Green Waves surround the Washerwomen

留恋, Liu2lian4: reluctant to leave

 

 冯四知 Feng Sizhi, 仙山在何处   Celestial Mountains or,  In the Mountain of the Immortals or, Heavenly Mountains

 

 

吴中行 Wu Zhongxing, 杏花雨欲湿牛衣   Wet Cows and Clothing from Springtime Rain (Apricot Blossom Rain?)

 欲? as in 欲望? Or it is just a literary "for"
and is 杏花雨  poetic for Spring rain?

Translation

The last three weeks, I've been working on a translation of an article about Jin Shisheng, a Chinese photographer who passed away in 2000.  The article was written by Wu Hung (if you know who he is... well, you know how big of a deal this is), and I was both honored and terrified to get this opportunity.  The article is going into the bilingual version of a book about the photographer, and will be published by Tongji University Press. After much stress and lots and lots of work I finally turned it in on Friday afternoon. Wu Hung is going to look at the article (he speaks English but wrote it in Chinese) and so I'll be a little nervous until I hear his response!

After I finally emailed it in I was exhausted, but really squirrely.  So what to do?  Have a dance party, of course!

Chris Verene

I found Chris Verene's work when I was browsing Ada Gallery's website (located in Richmond).

"Amber in Step-Daddy's Trailer"
"Hug"
"Dorothy says that when she was a little girl, a star fell on her head."

Chris Verene's website.

20X200

20X200 is a website that sells limited edition runs of artist's prints- mostly photography but some painting, etc, too. The smallest print, usually 8X10", only costs $20 and comes in a run of 200 (hence the name). The larger prints get exponentially more expensive. www.20x200.com

Resting on a Bush Yijun (Pixy) Liao

Midwife/ Middle School Science Teacher/ San Antonio, Texas/ 3-person household (including dog)/ First week after deciding to eat locally grown vegetables Mark Menjivar

Paris Gregory Krum

Two associated images

Courtesy the New York Times Online; photo of Japanese school kids on a field trip to the legislature. They are wearing masks because of Swine Flu.

Courtesy Dana Davis Photography (my uncle); he was shooting for La Brea Bakery in CA. He is wearing a mask for health code reasons.

I really like these two images together and am planning to work off of them somehow.

Doug Dubois

Doug Dubois photographs his family in a memoir-style. All his photographs are extremely narrative, and his book All the Days and Nights unfolds like a story but there are no words or descriptions as to what's happening. The result is a little eerie, but beautiful and quiet at the same time.
His website.