Gorgeous urban landscapes of China’s largest city are captured in the photo exhibit “Megalopolis Shanghai”, now showing at New York City’s Von Lintel Gallery. The GÃttingen, Germany based father and son photographer team of Horst and Daniel Zielske show us the most populous city in the most populous country in the world in all its glory. The pair have been working since 2002 creating these vibrant, colorful depictions of Shanghai’s skyscrapers, rivers, highways & plazas.

According to the gallery,

“In this series of pictures, the two photographers - father and son - present Shanghai between fiction and reality as the `city of tomorrow`. The focal point of their photographic work is the architecture of the city`s streets, a critical investigation and analysis encompassing the subject of urban landscape. In a long-term project begun in November 2002, they have been documenting the metropolis Shanghai as an urban composition, a man-made architectural living space and enviroment of unprecedented and unimaginably gigantic dimensions. The resulting images are of immense visual beauty.”

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Megalopolis Shanghai

April 17 - May 17, 2008

Von Lintel Gallery

Tuesday - Saturday, 10AM -6PM

555 West 25th Street, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10001

TEL: 212.242.0599