{"id":2606,"date":"2020-03-29T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T12:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zens.info\/phot\/en\/?page_id=2606"},"modified":"2025-07-29T14:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:26:22","slug":"moon-rabbit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zens.info\/en\/photography\/books\/moon-rabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon Rabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/399908423\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Moon Rabbit<br \/>\nThe Chinese Journey<\/h2>\n<p>At the beginning of her travels to China in 1998, Rosemarie Zens found a predominantly agrarian multi-ethnic state and initially photographed mainly landscapes and everyday scenes in urban and rural situations that reminded her of pre-modern times in our Western world. Within a time-frame of twenty years, groundbreaking developments took place, such as the technical transition from analog to digital photography on the one hand, and a rapid structural change within Chinese society on the other. The memorable photographs show how China increasingly orients itself towards Western culture and how homogenizing forces such as science, technology and the global market influence individual life. On various levels, however, the images also bear witness to how the precarious developments reflect our own approach to the world, while traces of the spirituality of ancient Chinese culture can still be found in the style of the images.<br \/>\n(from the <span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">publisher&#8217;s announcement<\/span><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Moon Rabbit \u2013 The Chinese Journey<\/h2>\n<p>I travelled to China for the first time in 1998. The journey took me from Beijing in the northeast along the Yellow River to Kashgar in the northwest of the country. Three more visits would follow, most recently in 2018. It was over this time span of twenty years, that I took my photographs \u2013 initially analogue, then digital. At the same time this vast, populous country faced a rapid restructuring of the society. On a different level this period was witness to revolutionary innovations in photographic technology. Both developments had a huge impact on my perception and my conception of images.<br \/>\n<em>&#8230; \u2018What a strange thing time is!\u2019 I said. \u2018I once lost a love. It\u2019s a long time ago now. But, still, that does not alter the fact that I lost a love.<br \/>\n<\/em>On my first trips the vistas of landscapes in a predominantly agrarian, multi-ethnic state and the quotidian scenes in urban and rural settings reminded me of pre-modern times in the West. As if I were watching scenes that I knew from historical depictions and portrayals in which, accompanied by political power and exploitation, population growth and decreasing poverty, socio-political and economic developments proceeded over centuries.\u00a0 A kind of historical mirror and at the same time a kind of tableau, on which time seemed to stand still.<br \/>\n<em>\u2026 at times the memory of things I must have experienced flutters about me \u2013 how otherwise could I remember them! You said so yourself, that things we believe to be memories are in fact the present\u00a0\u2026 It\u2019s convincing. But then it confuses, too. For it snatches the time, utterly, away from the things we encounter, and often I no longer know where I am in my life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Quote: Max Frisch, Bin oder die Reise nach Peking (1944), 5th ed. (Frankfurt, 1962), p. 38, p.22-3)<br \/>\n<\/em>&#8230; the complete essay will be publiblished soon<\/p>\n<p>Photography and text: Rosemarie Zens<br \/>\nBookdesign: Rosemarie Zens and Kehrer Design (July Mollik)<\/p>\n<p>70 images, texts in English and German<br \/>\n23 x 30 cm, 160 pages, hardcover<br \/>\nKehrer Verlag, Heidelberg Berlin 2020<br \/>\nISBN 978-3-86828-972-5<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">Available at<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\">the \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kehrerverlag.com\/en\/rosemarie-zens-moon-rabbit-the-chinese-journey-978-3-86828-972-5?___from_store=de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kehrer bookstore<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"\" title=\"\"><br \/>\nand signed \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/anzenbergergallery-bookshop.com\/book\/2380\/moon_rabbit_-_the_chinese_journey_(signed)-rosemarie_zens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AnzenbergerGallery, Wien<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About the book <em>Moon Rabbit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The hare and the hedgehog<\/em><br \/>\nSZ, January 7, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Rosemarie Zens has traveled to China three times, over a period of 20 years. Each time she was in a different country. And on each of these trips she was in different countries. At least that is her impression, and that is also what her photographs in &#8222;Moon Rabbit&#8220; convey. She shows a simultaneity of pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial realities of life. Sometimes in a single photograph.\u00a0 A country so eager for change that hardly anyone can keep up. Where people build something in one place that elsewhere, a few hundred kilometers away, has long been considered obsolet &#8230; (Stefan Fischer)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>With clenched fists forward<\/em><br \/>\nWAZ, December 12, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Traces of the past in streetscenes: China has been experiencing rapid change for years. This is shown in the photo book &#8222;Moon Rabbit &#8211; The Chinese Journey&#8220; by Rosemarie Zens. The photographs are based on three journeys over a period of 20 years. While Zens encountered an agricultural country in 1998, she also experienced the development of a digitalized society and mass surveillance. Zens presents a diverse picture of China: barren landscapes, animal markets, and city scenes &#8211; instantaneous images of everyday life reflect the juxtaposition of new and old. (Oliver K\u00fchn)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Moon Rabbit Photofilm<\/h2>\n<p>I became fascinated by the idea of creating a photofilm of my book Moon Rabbit. 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