The belief that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" defined Mao & co.'s fist-first regime. Liu Heung Shing's Pulitzer-Prize-winning portfolio, on the other hand, argues that the zoom barrel of a camera carries similar weight. The photojournalist has spent three revelatory decades — beginning with the Chairman's death — freeze-framing China's remarkable transformations, which come to pass at an exponential, but hyper-exciting, rate. For tonight's discussion on Shing's photographs, esteemed sinology reporter/writer Orville Schell offers up his expertise as the back-and-forth bandies between historic contextualization and Barthesian dissections of the thousand-messages-in-a-snap images.
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