This book offers a glimpse into the wide-ranging 50-year career of the internationally renowned Hong Kong photographer/designer through his work in collages and photomontages. From his early album covers when he was an art director/designer for the music industry in New York, Los Angeles and London in the 1970’s, through his diverse international assignments and personal works, to his most recent exhibition in Hong Kong. The story encompasses the long journey from cut-and-paste collages to the computer-composited photomontages of dreamscapes in this Carnival of Dreams.In his introduction titled ‘The Man from Everywhere’, Pico Iyer writes: “For decades now, Basil Pao has been the global eye through which I’ve taken in almost every country, as clearly as the world within… I never know where to place Basil; I can’t get my head around him. Album-designer, loving father, covert Chan master—21st century Renaissance man—Basil is always bringing the many worlds inside him together to create so
讀過不少網絡上、書本上的「心靈雞湯」,在成長過程中步步啟發……可是,有多少人和他一樣隨筆寫下自己的一生,為人處世呢?一位為了生活閒逸而隱居的哲學家,蒙田(Michel de Montaigne)隨筆記錄了自己人生和思想精神上的發展歷程,爲後代留下了極其寶貴的精神財富。四百餘年來,歷史證明了蒙田與培根、莎士比亞等偉大作家一樣是一位不朽的人物。他的作品是十六世紀各種思潮和各種知識經過分析的總匯,有「生活的哲學」之美稱謂,在法國散文史上佔有重要地位,開創隨筆式作品之先河。