Lot 242: Shi Guorui , Shanghai 9 May 2005 camera obscura, gelatin silver print

signed in Pinyin and Chinese, titled in English, and dated 9 May 2005 on the reverse (and written Unique camera obscura ) camera obscura, gelatin silver print

50 3/4 by 151 1/2 in. 129 by 385 cm.

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Red Hot: Asian Art Today From the Chaney Family Collection , July 22 - October 21, 2007, pp. 158-159, illustrated in color (a similar work illustrated)
New York, Alan Klots, Contemporary Obscurists: The Camera Obscura In Contemporary Photography , September 15 - November 12, 2005
Kunstmuseum Bern; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection , 2005, pp. 234-235 (another work from the series exhibited)
Miami, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Beyond Delirious: Architecture in Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection , November 30, 2005 - February 3, 2006 (another work from the series exhibited)

Alan Klotz, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

This work is number 1 of 9 unique but similar images of Shanghai produced using a camera obscura.