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ARTICLESShanghai 2010: The World Expo A Photographic EssayLois Conner
The New York-based photographer Lois Conner has been working in China since the early 1980s. She first visited Shanghai in 1984. The following is a small selection of work that she made during a visit to the Shanghai Expo in July 2010. We previously published some of Conner's work on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 'Beijing Reconstructs: the Photographs of Lois Conner'. Other photographic essays by Conner to have appeared in recent issues of China Heritage Quarterly include: 'A Photographer in the Garden' on the Garden of Perfect Brightness in Beijing; a series in the September 2009 issue that introduced T'ien Hsia to our readers; and a series in the March 2010 issue on Shanghai. We are grateful for her kind generosity in allowing us to feature her work once more here.—The Editor
![]() Fig.1 Detail of the China Pavilion 'dougong' (斗拱) brackets, Shanghai Expo. Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.2 Stainless steel pandas next to the Expo main concourse. Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.3 Photograph: Lois Conner ![]() Fig.4 Lines of visitors, China Pavilion. Photograph: Lois Conner.
![]() Fig.5 The main concourse. Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.6 Inside the China Pavilion. Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.7 Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.8 The UK Pavilion. Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.9 Inside the UK Pavilion. Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.10 Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.11 An electronic animated version of the Song-era painting 'On the River during the Qingming Festival' by Zhang Zeduan, (宋)张择端《清明上河图》, at the China Pavilion. Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.12 Looking along the main concourse from the China Pavilion. Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.13 Entering the China Pavilion. Photograph: Lois Conner
![]() Fig.14 Queues in the vestibule of the China Pavilion. Photograph: Lois Conner |