Chien-Chi Chang (; born 1961) is a photographer and member of

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Life and work

Chang was born in

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, Taiwan. He received an MS from

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, Bloomington and a

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from Soochow University,

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the ...

. He joined

in 1995 and was elected as a full member in 2001. He lives in Taichung, Taiwan and

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. Chang focuses on the abstract concepts of alienation and connection. "''The Chain''", a collection of

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made in a

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in Taiwan, was shown at

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(2001) and the São Paulo Art Biennial (2002). The nearly life-sized photographs of pairs of patients chained together resonate with Chang's look at the less visible bonds of marriage. At São Paulo Art Biennial he was involved in the Thomann controversy. Chang has treated marital ties in two books—''I Do I Do I Do'' (2001), a collection of images depicting alienated grooms and brides in Taiwan, and in ''Double Happiness'' (2005), a depiction of the business of selling brides in

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...

. The ties of family and of culture are also the themes of a project begun in 1992. For 21 years, Chang has photographed and videoed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York's Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its cap ...

. Still a work in progress, ''China Town'' was hung at the

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in 2008Lenzi, Iola.
Chang Chien-Chi at the National Museum of Singapore.
. ''C-Arts'', 10 July 2009. as part of a mid-career survey and at

(2011) as well as at

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, New York (2012). Chang's investigation of the ties that bind one person to another draws on his own divided immigrant experience in the United States.

Awards

*1998: Visa d'Or, Visa pour l'image, Perpignan, France *1998: Magazine Photographer of the Year,

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, US *1998: Second prize, Daily Life singles, category,

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, Amsterdam *1999: First prize, Daily Life stories category, World Press Photo, Amsterdam *1999: W. Eugene Smith Grant, W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for Humanistic Photography, New York *2003: First place, Best of Photography Book (''The Chain''),

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, US.

Books and selected monographs

*Chang, Chien-Chi, ''The Chain, Photographs by Chien-Chi Chang''. Taipei:

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, 2001. *Chang, Chien-Chi, ''I Do I Do I Do''. Taipei: Premier Foundation, 2001. . *Chang, Chien-Chi; Lai, Cheryl, ''The Chain''. London: Trolley, 2002. . *Chang, Chien-Chi; Dowling, Claudia Glenn, ''Double Happiness''. New York, NY:

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, 2005. . *Chang, Chien-Chi, ''I Grandi Fotografi: Magnum Photos: Chien-Chi Chang''. Milan: Hachette Fascioli, 2008. *Chang, Chien-Chi, ''Les Grands Photographe de Magnum Photos: Chien-Chi Chang''. Paris:

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, 2008. *Chang, Chien-Chi, ''Doubleness: photography of Chang Chien-Chi. Singapore'': Editions Didier Millet and

, 2008. .

Video

*2007: ''Empty Orchestra'' *2008: ''China Town I'' *2009: ''Escape from North Korea'' *2011: ''Burmese Days'' *2011: ''Bongo Fever'' *2011: ''China Town II'' *2013: ''AccessRH, Philippines'' *2014: ''Side Chain''

Selected exhibitions

*1999

The Alternative Museum The Alternative Museum was founded in 1975 by artists for artists and the broader New York City community in the United States.Taipei Fine Arts Museum The Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM; ) is a museum in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is in the Taipei Expo Park. The museum first opened on August 8, 1983, at the former site of the United States Taiwan Defense Command. It was the first ...

, Taipei, Taiwan *2001

, Venice *2002 São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo *2004 Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida *2004

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, Cardiff *2006

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, Columbus, Ohio *2008

, Singapore *2009

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA; ) is a museum in West District, Taichung, Taiwan. NTMoFA was established in 1988 and is the first and the only national-grade fine arts museum in Taiwan. The major collections are works by Taiw ...

, Taichung *2009 Venice Biennial, Venice *2011 Museum of Cultures / Museum der Kulturen, Basel *2012 The Cube Project Space, Taipei *2012 Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei *2012

, New York City *2013 Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei *2013 Museum of National Taipei University of Education,

National Taipei University of Education National Taipei University of Education (NTUE; ) is a university located in Daan District, Taipei, Taiwan that predominantly focuses on teacher training. It was established in 1895, at the beginning of the Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan, ...

, Taipei

Selected sound installations

*2010 ''Many Voices of Immigrants, New York and Fuzhou, China'' *2013 ''Postcards from North Korea''

Sources

*Chang, Chien-Chi
Biography and works at Magnum website
*Chang, Chien-Chi

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'', August 18–25, 2003. * The Singular Approach
"Chien-Chi Chang's Contact Sheet Chronicle"
''

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'', 2011 * Chang, Chien-Chi. China Town II (video). Museum der Kulturen, Magnum in Motion. Magnum Photos, 2012

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chang, Chien-Chi 1961 births Living people American people of Taiwanese descent Magnum photographers Taiwanese photographers