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Lee Fook Chee

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from the summer of 1948 until sometime in 1955 when he instead started selling pictures of famous landscapes and streets of Hong Kong to tourists. With the popularization of colour photography Lee's black and white picture started to look outdated and revenue from sales reduced. After trying to sell
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his pictures in other spots, eventually he gave up the business of photography and ran a grocery shop in
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for financial reasons to sell new prints of his old 1950's pictures. Following the suggestion of
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of a book of Lee's pictures. Unfortunately, Lee died in 2012 before seeing the book published.
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from 1947. He worked intermittently as a journeyman photographer at
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Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong : photographs from the 1950s
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Index

Singapore
Hong Kong
Singaporean
Hong Kong
The Peak
Wan Chai
The Peak
Laurence Lai
Edward Stokes
The Photographic Heritage Foundation
Chiu & Stokes 2015


Chiu & Stokes 2015
Chiu & Stokes 2015
Chiu & Stokes 2015
Chiu & Stokes 2015
Chiu & Stokes 2015
ISBN
9789620756573
Categories
Hong Kong photographers
1927 births
2012 deaths
Singaporean emigrants to Hong Kong

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