Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: New York Portfolio

Aperture is pleased to present to our collecting audience the remaining copies of a very special limited-edition portfolio. The New York portfolio was created in conjunction with the Museum of the City of New York on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s New York: Assembled Realities.

As Liao states, “New York City is the most photographed city in the world, and there are too many good photographs already made,” he says. “The new generation, like me, we just needed to figure out a new way to shoot the city differently." And that he has, with meticulous care and the use of multiple exposures, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao crafts each of his images with technological precision. Shooting primarily with a large-format film camera, then scanning and digitally editing the negatives, Liao creates enormous, detail-driven panoramas of the social and urban landscape of New York.  From rehabilitated Coney Island to the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, from the demise of Shea Stadium in Queens to the newly built One World Trade Center, Liao has created a lasting document of a significant period of transformation in New York’s skyline and social fabric. His unique perspective on New York is both personal and hyperreal, managing to capture both the lasting charm of the city’s well-known landmarks as well as the moment when New York entered the twenty-first century.

Portfolio of Five Archival Pigment Prints, presented in a clothbound folio
Edition of 25
Paper Size: 26 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches
Image Size: Varied
Signed and numbered by the artist

Prints included in this portfolio:
Fleet Week, New York Harbor, 2012
Image Size: 14 1/2 x 24 inches
72nd Street Station, Manhattan, 2012
Image Size: 10 x 24 inches
New Year’s Eve Fireworks, Central Park, 2013
Image Size: 10 x 24 inches
Looking North from the Frank Gehry Building, Manhattan, 2012
Image Size: 11 x 24 inches
Flatiron, Manhattan, 2011
Image Size: 17 1/2 x 22 inches

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (b. 1977, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese photographer who immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 22 in 1999. He received a BFA from Pratt Institute of Art and Design in 2003 and an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in 2005. Liao first received recognition with his series Habitat 7, which was featured in the September 11, 2005, issue of the New York Times Magazine as the winner of Capture the Times photography contest. He has lectured on his photographic practice at several institutions, including the International Center of Photography, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, LA, George Eastman House; Kentucky Art Museum; School of Visual Art, NY; the Museum of the City of New York; and Aperture Foundation. Liao’s work has been exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of the City of New York; Queens Museum of Art; and Bronx Museum of the Arts.