Arts and Entertainment, 1st prize
Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Magnum Photos for The New York Times Magazine
Magnum Photos for The New York Times Magazine
01 January, 1993
Chinese avant-garde art critic Li Xianting (Lao Li). Groups of Chinese avant-garde artists, in such movements as Cynical Realism and Political Pop, pitch their irony and humor against the intransigence of the communist regime. Exhibitions of little political significance have been closed down more than once, while gestures of defiance are often so subtle as to go unnoticed abroad.
Gueorgui Pinkhassov
After graduating from the Moscow Institute of Cinematography, George Pinkhassov (Moscow, 1952) became a camera operator at the Mosfilm Studios and later a set photographer. He jo...
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