标题: 用镜头寻找身份认同的新加坡摄影师 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 9-24-2015 19:35 标题: 用镜头寻找身份认同的新加坡摄影师 Rena Silverman, 用镜头寻找身份认同的新加坡摄影师. 纽约时报中文网, Sept 24, 2015 ("镜头")
cn.nytstyle.com/culture/20150924/t24lens-identity/
(a female photographer named 沈绮颖 Sim Chi Yin
, which is translated from
Rena Silverman, Photo Zines That Explore Singapore’s Identity. New York Times, Sept 8, 2015 (in a blog called Lens").
lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/08/photo-zines-explore-singapores-identity/
Note:
(a) Hebrew English dictionary:
רִנָּה [spelled as rena, rina or rinnah] (n): "joy"
(b) zine (n; First Known Use 1965): "MAGAZINE; especially : a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter <a feminist zine>" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zine
(c) "In 1949, her grandfather, Shen Huansheng, a school principal and chief editor for the leftist Ipoh Daily newspaper, became a “Communist martyr.” A monument in Gaoshang with the inscription, 'The tomb of martyr Shen Huansheng' proves it."
(i) cn.nytimes.com: 沈绮颖的祖父沈焕盛是一位学校校长，亦是左翼报纸《保怡日报》(Ipoh Daily)的主编，1949年，他成了“共产主义烈士”。在（中国广东省）诰上村，有一块纪念碑上刻着“烈士沈焕盛之墓”，可以证明这段历史。
(ii) Ipoh Daily is defunct.
(iii) Ipoh 怡保 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipoh
(capital city of Perak state, Malaysia) 作者: choi 时间: 9-24-2015 19:41
(continued)
(d) photo gallery:
(i) photo 2: The obelisk is located at "village of Gaoshang, in Gaoyao town, Meixian" 广东省梅州市梅县区桃尧镇 诰上村
(ii) photo 4: Dhoby Ghat Station in Singapore.
(A) Dhobi Ghat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhobi_Ghat
(in Mumbai, India)
(B) Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station 多美歌地铁站 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhoby_Ghaut_MRT_Station
(section 1 Etymology; view map for location of the station)
(iii) photo 5: "82 Commonwealth Close" (official name is Block (“Blk” for short) 82 Commonwealth Close)
(A) Queenstown, Singapore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenstown,_Singapore
(section 4 Main housing estates: such as (i) "Commonwealth Estate is located near the Commonwealth MRT station and consists of precincts like Commonwealth Close and Commonwealth Crescent" and (ii) "Queen's Close is a cluster of flats")
(B) The following three online dictionaries are all British (www.m-w.com is American) -- for the definition of "close" as a noun:
* "UK a road, usually with private houses, that vehicles can only enter from one end <He lives at 83 Barker Close>" http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/close
* "1: the area around a cathedral including the buildings belonging to it
2: a street consisting of private houses at the end of which the road stops [m-w.com: "chiefly British: 'a road closed at one end']
a: Close used in street names <Appian Close>" http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/close_5
* "(British) (capital when part of a street name) a small quiet residential road <Hillside Close>" http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/close
(C) Here is a map of the neighborhood: Commonwealth is a cul-de-sac, with various blocks.
(iv) photo 6: Goh Seng Lai Co 吴成来私人有限公司 www.gohsenglai.com/home
(v) Kee Song Brothers Poultry Industries 其祥兄弟家禽工业私人有限公司
(vi) photo 9: Tanjong Pagar Container Terminal
It is a terminal in Tanjong Pagar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanjong_Pagar
(section 1 Etymology)
(vii) photo 14: “Goh Soo Kim, a ballet dancer and co-founder of Singapore Dance Theater”