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Book SynopsisFrom 2015, this Chinese photographer has been dedicated to shooting the best portraits possible of international masters of photography. Through his lens he has captured the faces of many of the world's contemporary photographers: Sebastião Salgado, William Klein, Robert Frank, Bruno Barbey, Bernard Faucon. At present, there are more than 60 portraits included in Zhong Weixing’s ‘Contemporary Photography Masters’, and the programme is still ongoing. Jean-Luc Monterosso, former director of the world-renowned Maison Européenne de la Photographie, describes these works by Zhong Weixing as a ‘pantheon of photography masters’. The well-known photographer Bruno Barbey has praised them as representing a ‘Bible of photographic history’.
