city of darkness revisited Tag

Editorial

Dec 02, 2014

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Who still buys books? Those antiquated, cumbersome, and tree-killing publications that have been rendered obsolete by digital media. Those overpriced eyesores on your bookshelves that are so heavy to move and make no sense to own when you can have it all on a tablet plus links, sounds, and other bells and whistles. Well, that...

Editorial

Apr 08, 2014

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Sometime around 2000, I met Greg Girard the old-fashioned way: I sent a letter to the publisher of City of Darkness, a brick of a photo book about Kowloon Walled City that Greg made with his friend Ian Lambot. Through a series of letters, faxes, and phone calls, I eventually interviewed the then-Shanghai resident about...