當時有三名記者拍攝到這個畫面，包括為《People》雜誌拍攝的Lori Grinker、《The Journal News》攝影師Ricky Flores和《Bergen Record》報社記者Thomas E. Franklin，後者由於拍攝角度較低較近，而且捕捉到升旗一刻，因此多間報社均選用這張照片作為封面，令其變得廣為人知。Thomas E. Franklin不僅憑此入圍普立茲獎，相片還被製成紀念郵票，他更因此前往白宮獲得時任總統喬治布殊接見。
Lori Grinker的照片雖然不及Thomas E. Franklin知名，然而之後卻得到業界認可，甚至同樣拍攝這畫面的Ricky Flores也認為她的照片整體上更好。Lori是一名自由攝影師，剛完成化療的她當日正準備去看醫生，在電視見到恐襲新聞後，身穿涼鞋的她來不及換上運動鞋，帶上相機及菲林便立即衝到世貿中心現場。
Scroll down for English. 1987年，陳百強在DMI年代的《夢裡人》唱片封面，其黑白相片就是黃永熹在陳百強麥當勞道家中門前所拍攝；1991年，張國榮在《號外》雜誌反串花旦的封面照片，同樣出自他之手。還有1994年張學友《餓狼傳說》的唱片封套、1996年電影《金枝玉葉2》的梅艷芳劇照等，均是由他操刀拍攝。
1979年，黃永熹(Sam Wong)在加州藝術中心設計學院 (ArtCenter College of Design)接受商業攝影訓練，1984年回港發展後，獲劉天蘭邀請首次操刀拍攝葉德嫻《千個太陽》唱片封面照，隨即奪得該年「最佳唱片封面獎」。之後他先後拍攝張國榮、張曼玉、梅艷芳、陳百強、陳奕迅等巨星，可謂見證廣東歌的黃金時代。
1987年，他參與成立香港專業攝影師公會，是香港首個專業攝影師團體。黃永熹的作品橫跨廣告、唱片封面、電影海報及雜誌等範疇，入行40年，他最近才舉辦首次攝影展，展覽從一句雙關語開始，《It’s about Time》既「關於時間」，也有「是時候了」的意思，藉此回望黃永熹過去拍攝的時、地、人。
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日期：2024年7月15日至9月15日
時間：9am-6pm (星期一至日)
地址：調景嶺(HKDI)香港知專設計學院C003展館
After honing his commercial photography skills at the ArtCenter College of Design in California, Sam Wong returned to Hong Kong in 1984 to embark on a photography career. He photographed Deanie Ip, Danny Chan, Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, and Jacky Cheung’s album covers and witnessed the golden age of Cantopop.
Sam Wong’s photographic works span advertising, album covers, movie posters, and magazine shootings. In his 40-year career, Sam recently held his first photography exhibition, titled It’s About Time. The exhibition showcased numerous portraits, leaving an indelible mark on Cantopop culture.
Scroll down for English. 著名新聞及紀實攝影師Thomas Hoepker日前逝世，享年88歲。身為Magnum Photos攝影師，他自1959年開始已踏足世界各地拍攝重要事件。2022年，德國Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar曾舉辦大型回顧攝影展《Thomas Hoepker – Image Maker》，展出他逾半世紀的攝影作品，分為早期作品、公路旅行、拳王阿里、東德攝影記者、重遊美國等主題，系統地勾勒出他一生豐富而精采的影像。
1956_Italy_Love-birds in Rome_copyright Thomas Hoepker and Magnum Photos
他將當年拍攝的黑白影像與這次旅程用徠卡SL2相機拍攝的彩色照片，集結成攝影集 《The Way it was. Road Trips USA》，從黑白的當年到彩色的當下，透過兩系列相片對比這個國家的過去與現在，可見美國發生的巨大變化，某程度也見證著攝影師的歲月與演變。在展覽現場，全新的彩色照片將與當年的黑白照片並排展出，讓人深刻感受到一趟跨越時空的美國公路之旅。
USA. Chicago 1966. MUHAMMAD ALI, boxing world heavy weight champion showing off his right fist.
Modern concrete-slab buildings and a picture of General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party Erich HONECKER. EAST GERMANY. Halle-Neustadt, Saxony-Anhalt.1975.
USA, New York, NY, September 11, 2001. View from Brooklyn/Williamsburg towards Brooklyn Bridge and downtown Manhattan during aftermath of World Trade Center bombing.
Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker (1936-2024.7.10) recently passed away at 88. Since 1959, he has traveled the world photographing important events, including Muhammad Ali in the 1960s, East Germany in the 1970s, and the 9.11 attacks in 2001.
Hoepker’s images are a testament to his humanistic care and ability to capture both the ordinary and the dramatic with a calm, unsensational eye, bringing out the artistry in seemingly everyday scenes. His expressive photos were highly regarded by the renowned news agency Magnum Photos, which began distributing his work in 1964. Hoepker later became a formal member in 1989 and served as the news agency’s chairman from 2003 to 2006, leaving an essential role in the industry.
Despite his lofty status in news and documentary photography, he always modestly calls himself an “Image Maker.” This may not sound as lofty as an artist or a master photographer, yet his works endowed these outstanding images with an artistry that transcends the background of the times.
《Hong Kong Photographers Five-Mak Fung》，2010年出版，184頁， 收錄多幅1940至1990年代舊香港照片，HKD350。「顯影堂」有售。
至於2010年出版的精裝版攝影集《Hong Kong Photographers Five-Mak Fung》，可見有最早在1940年代中從山頂俯瞰中環的影像、1960年代雲咸街街景、1970年代的中半山景觀，中環遮打大廈的前身於仁行（Union Building）等殖民地時期建築，更令人懷念。 此外，攝影集也收錄麥烽在1950及1960年代拍攝的電影明星，如林黛、夏夢、苗金鳳、白茵、江雪、張瑛、江毅及李清等。
PS：今年是麥烽(1918-2009)逝世15周年，推介兩本攝影集：《香港曾經是這樣的》，1997年出版，108頁，收錄逾百幅1940中至1990年代舊香港照片，HKD 250。《Hong Kong Photographers Five-Mak Fung》，2010年出版，184頁，收錄多幅1940至1990年代舊香港照片，HKD350。「顯影堂」有售。
Hong Kong Photographer Mak Fung (1918-2009) began photographing in the mid-1940s and documented Hong Kong’s street views and grassroots for over half a century.
Hong Kong was a small fishing village. In Mak Fung‘s photos, images of fishing boats in Castle Peak Bay, Aberdeen Tanka boat people, and Tai Po fishing port remind us of its past. As a colonial city, Hong Kong’s architecture, such as the Union Building(now Chater House) and the third-generation General Post Office in Central, is reminiscent of history. Mak‘s lens also captures the street scene of Hong Kong and the daily life of ordinary people, such as the Graham Street market, the water wells in Kowloon City, and the children playing on the streets.
”Hong Kong Photographer Five-Mak Fung,“ published in 2010, is an exquisite collection of photographs of old Hong Kong taken by Mak Fung from the 1940s to the 1990s. The photo album also includes movie stars in the 1950s and 1960s, such as Lin Dai, Xia Meng, etc., witnessing the golden age of the Hong Kong film industry.
Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze’s ‘Concrete Stories’: A Fresh Angle on Hong Kong Rooftop Photography
‘Concrete Stories’ is a collection of genuine moments capturing people’s daily lives from the rooftops in Kowloon districts.
From 2014 to 2018, Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze, a French photographer based in Hong Kong, explored the city’s rooftops in a unique way. His lens captured the city from a fresh angle, focusing on aged buildings without alarms or security cameras and favoring sunny days for enhanced luminosity.
In his lens, you can see students skipping rope, women drying clothes, and people practicing Tai Chi. The scenes on the rooftop become more dramatic under the setting sunlight. After taking the photo, the final step was to carefully crop the images to highlight the rooftop and people’s activities.
These buildings, once a vibrant part of the city’s landscape, are now disappearing at an alarming rate. The pressing need for land has led to the demolition of low-rise structures, making way for taller, more modern ones, often with inaccessible rooftops.
宮本隆司鏡頭下的九龍城寨，建築物及裡面的空間是主體，既有城寨的外觀全貌，也有各式各樣的店舖環境。由於城寨內燈光昏暗，加上他沒有開閃光燈，因此人的臉孔都顯得很模糊，恍如鬼魅。相比起《City of Darkness Revisited》的彩色照片及對居民的深度訪問，宮本隆司的黑白照片強調的是建築，反而人的元素並不突出，照片也瀰漫著一股荒涼感，彷彿預示著九龍城寨的命運。
Ryūji Miyamoto was honored with the prestigious 14th Kimura Ihei Award for his works, Architectural Apocalypse and Kowloon Walled City, both published in 1988.
Miyamoto decided to visit Hong Kong in 1987 when the Hong Kong government officially announced that Kowloon Walled City would be demolished. After spending his first day photographing only the exterior, he hired a local guide and entered the Walled City on his second day. He described the maze-like streets that discharge sewage as a medieval city.
Miyamoto initially captured the alleyways, cramped apartments, terraces, signboards, dentists’ offices, and the disarrayed cables and pipes. When he returned in the fall of 1987, he paid for a helicopter to capture the building’s birds-eye views.
He published his first photobook on Kowloon Walled City in 1988, which was a great success. Miyamoto visited the Walled City in 1992 and 1993 before it was entirely demolished in 1994. His photographs remain a practical resource as documentation until now, and the photobook was republished in 1997, 2009, and 2017.
