This is NOT William Gibson's Book; Give the Real Author the Top Billing He Deserves

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	• Phantom Shanghai Greg Girard Magenta Publishing for the Art, 2007 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Breathtaking

I almost completely agree with the other reviewers, including the outrageous mis-attribution of the author. The book is by Greg Girard, and only a short, and slightly hyper, forward belongs to Gibson.

As for the images, they are among the most haunting and beautiful you will ever see of an urban landscape. I believe the book is a masterpiece. This is made even more poignant by the fact that much (all?) of what was photographed is now gone. This is made even more glaring by the extraordinary size and, for me, vulgarity, of what has become the new Shangai. While the photographs themselves may make no indictment, I felt that the new skyline of Shanghai indicts itself by its sheer massive ugliness and by its blind march into the future. The only good news is that the skyscrapers are just as susceptible to the wrecking ball.

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This is NOT William Gibson's Book; Give the Real Author the Top Billing He Deserves

It's downright scandalous that Amazon gives William Gibson top billing for this book. "Phantom Shanghai" is GREG GIRARD's book through-and-through, a brilliant 224-page urban photo essay of the highest standard.

I have lived in Shanghai for the past 7-plus years and have walked among the deeply felt images captured by Girard. His stunning photos are amazing in not just their stark clarity, but that they refuse stand in judgment of this city, and its wanton destruction in an unrestrained grab for riches. In this sense, "Phantom Shanghai" is aptly titled: a true apparition of a unique period that will mark, perhaps even haunt, Shanghai for years to come.

While William Gibson penned the foreword to "Phantom Shanghai", by all accounts, he's never even been here, to the world's most overrated city.

I searched the Amazon website high and low trying to find a way to send an email voicing my displeasure at their essentially crediting this title to Gibson, but as with most once consumer friendly corporations these days, they make it virtually impossible to contact any actual person who might handle such consumer complaints.

If anybody at Amazon catches a glimpse of this commentary, I ask you to find a way to do right by the true author of "Phantom Shanghai", Greg Girard, and give him the lead billing he deserves for this book.

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