Jiang assigns students to photograph Beijing by looking for unnoticed things and contrasts, adapting Talese's attention to New York into a local observational exercise.
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Jiang assigns students to photograph Beijing by looking for unnoticed things and contrasts, adapting Talese's attention to New York into a local observational exercise.
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"New York is a city of contrast. I want you to do the same thing for Beijing. Take your camera and take pictures of..."
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