*The first version was sold out. This is a second, enhanced version with better images editing*
Don't we all love Hong Kong! Many of us are interested to see how people lived in Hong Kong back in 1969, over 50 years ago.
Redge Solley who had worked for the HK Government Information Service for 20 years has 400 films with photos that he took back in 1969 which have never been previously released until now. Mr. Solley was also Hong Kong stamps designer.
This 'Life in Hong Kong in 1969' photo book is a limited edition, A4 size, hard cover wrapped with cloth, 120 pages with 110 precious photos taken in 1969. Mr. Solley had taken series of old houses, markets, sailors, rickshaws, trams, buses, public estates, fishing villages, Wanchai, Central, Causeway Bay, Tsim Sha Tsui...
The forewords are written by Mr Lam Chiu Ying, Former HK Observatory; Mr Cheng Po Hung, Advisor of the HK Museum of History; Mr Cheung Shun Kwong, President of the HK Collectors Society.
The book is well received by people who love Hong Kong!
It's a 120 pages, A4 size book, wrapped with burgundy colour cloth, with 108 Redge Solley's photos, First edition Feb 2019, Second edition April 2023, New ISBN 977-988-76577-6-7 (1st version ISBN 978-988-79572-0-1)
Press releases about this book:
‘Hong Kong in the 1960s’ photo exhibition: young expat’s images of street scenes, ‘ordinary stuff’ capture glimpses of era gone by
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3134461/hong-kong-1960s-photo-exhibition-young-expats-images-street
https://www.scmp.com/photos/today-photos/3132746/opg-hong-kong-1960s-exhibition-redge-solley
【攝影展覽】到1969年的香港探險 Redge Solley：是我第二個家
https://www.hk01.com/article/626764?utm_source=01appshare&utm_medium=referral
Apple Daily【香港今昔】一九六九年大觀園遊記 Redge Solley：我抓拍過的美好香港
Ming Po Weekly in March and June editions 2019 - Hong Kong Post published Redge Solley's stamp designs of the 'Centenary of Hong Kong Trams' in 2004.
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