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Visiting Tutor for "Studio Photography" Elizabeth Gill Lui, born 1951, is an internationally recognized fine art photographer and educator. Her work has been widely exhibited and published. With a degree in comparative religion from Colorado College, she went on to study American Indian Studies at the University of Denver, Colorado. In pursuit of her professional development, the artist studied architectural photography with Ezra Stoller at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She has been a visiting artist, lecturer and juror at the schools of architecture at Chinese University in Hong Kong, the University of Colorado at Denver, SCIARC in Los Angeles, and at the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. Her work in fine art photography has been recognized with grants from the Ford Foundation for study in Kyoto, Japan, and at the Kansas City Nelson Atkins Museum. An individual artist's fellowship in 1989 from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts provided early support toward the publication of her book, Closed Mondays (Nazraeli Press, 1999) a photographic interpretation of XXth century art museums as architectural icons and cultural symbols. In 2004 she published, Building Diplomacy, The Architecture of American Embassies (Cornell University Press), a photographic monograph documenting American Embassies shot in over fifty countries worldwide. In 2005/2006 Lui was the recipient of a Rockefeller Brother's Fund Asian Cultural Council Fellowship supporting her as an artist in residence at Chinese University's School of Architecture, Hong Kong, where she concluded a ten year documentary on vernacular architecture in rural areas of southeastern China. The publication of this collection of photographs, entitled Open Hearts Open Doors, Reflections on China's Past and Future, is accompanied by text that raises the issues of cultural preservation's collision with the forces of rapid development in China. |
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