Fan Ho

{{Short description|Chinese photographer and film director}} {{family name hatnote|Ho|lang=Chinese}} {{Use British English|date=February 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}} {{Infobox person | name = Fan Ho | image = Fanho 2017.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|10|08}} | birth_place = Shanghai, China | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|06|19|1931|10|08}} | death_place = San Jose, California, USA | other_names = | occupation = Photographer, film director, and actor | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | website = {{URL|fanho-forgetmenot.com}} | module = {{Infobox Chinese |child=yes |c=何藩 |j=ho⁴faan⁴ |p=Hé Fān}} }}

'''Fan Ho''' ({{lang-zh|c=何藩|j=ho⁴faan⁴}}; 8 October 1931{{efn|The year of birth is from the Hong Kong Film Archive online catalog, in other less reliable sources his year of birth is given as 1930, 1931, or 1932.}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1052939/grey-areas |title=Grey areas: The photographic work of Ho Fan is a stark reminder of old Hong Kong |date=7 October 2012 |magazine=Post Magazine |publisher=South China Morning Post |accessdate=6 June 2017 |quote=Having retired from directing, Ho, who turns 82 tomorrow and now lives in California, in the United States, used old negatives to produce the books ''Hong Kong Yesterday'' and ''The Living Theatre'', and has put together a series from the books that is being exhibited in Chai Wan.}}</ref> – 19 June 2016) was a Chinese photographer, film director, and actor. From 1956, he won over 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide for his photography.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.modernbook.com/fanho.htm |title=Fan Ho |publisher=Modernbook |date=3 September 2011 |accessdate=22 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605030826/http://www.modernbook.com/fanho.htm |archive-date=5 June 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Photography career== Fan Ho was born in Shanghai in 1931, and emigrated with his family to Hong Kong in 1949.<ref name=SCMP-151117>{{cite news |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education-community/article/1879716/street-life-hong-kong-1950s-seen-through-lens |title=Street Life: Hong Kong in the 1950s as seen through the lens of photographer Fan Ho |date=17 November 2015 |newspaper=South China Morning Post |accessdate=5 June 2017}}</ref> At the outbreak of war in 1941, Ho's parents were stranded in Macau for several years and Ho was left in the care of a family servant.<ref name=VisualDialogues>{{cite book |url=http://www.sothebys.com/pdf/2017/HK0758/docs/HK0758.pdf |title=Visual Dialogues: Hong Kong through the lens of Fan Ho |author1=Greene, Sarah |author2=Yan, Jasmine |date=2017 |publisher=Sotheby's |accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref> Ho began photographing at a very young age with a Brownie which his father had left at home, and later with a Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera his father gave him at the age of 14.<ref name=SCMP-160622 /><ref name=HKM-1211 /> Largely self-taught, his photos display a fascination with urban life, explored alleys, slums, markets and streets. Much of his work consists of candid photographs of the street vendors and children only a few years younger than himself.<ref name=SCMP-140810>{{cite news |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1570201/photographer-ho-fans-pictures-old-hong-kong-go-display-new-hotel |title=Street life: Hong Kong in the 1950s as seen through a teenage photographer's lens |author=Nip, Amy |date=10 August 2014 |newspaper=South China Morning Post |accessdate=6 June 2017}}</ref> He developed his images in the family bathtub and soon had built up a significant body of work, chronicling Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s as it was becoming a major metropolitan centre. Ho would use the same Rolleiflex K4A throughout his career.<ref name=PR-201706>{{cite press release |url=https://www.artsy.net/show/blue-lotus-gallery-fan-ho-visual-dialogues-hong-kong-through-the-lens-of-fan-ho |title=Fan Ho: Visual Dialogues/Hong Kong through the lens of Fan Ho |date=June 2017 |publisher=Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery |accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref><ref name=SCMP-170620 />

{{blockquote |text=... I've always believed that any work of art should stem from genuine feelings and understandings ... I didn't work with any sense of purpose. As an artist, I was only looking to express myself. I did it to share my feelings with the audience. I need to be touched emotionally to come up with meaningful works. When the work resonates with the audience, it's a satisfaction that money can't buy. My purpose is simple: I try not to waste my audience's time. [''Laughs''] |author=Ho Fan |source=2014 interview with Edmund Lee<ref name=SCMP-141210 />}}

Upon seeing Ho's work for the first time in 2006, gallery owner Laurence Miller commented that "[they] felt like direct descendants of the Bauhaus, yet they were made in Hong Kong. They were abstract and humanistic at the same time."<ref name=studiointernational/>

Ho was a Fellow of the Photographic Society of America, the Royal Photographic Society and the Royal Society of Arts in England, and an Honorary Member of the Photographic Societies of Singapore, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy and Belgium.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bluelotus-gallery.com/ho-fan-1/ |title=Ho Fan (1931-2016) |author=Greene, Sarah |publisher=Blue Lotus Gallery |accessdate=5 June 2017}}</ref> Ho was named one of the "Top Ten Photographers of the World" by the Photographic Society of America between 1958 and 1965.<ref name=SCMP-151117 />

==="Approaching Shadow", 1954 《陰影》===

"Approaching Shadow" ({{lang-zh|t=陰影}}) was one of Ho's most famous works. He asked a cousin to pose by a wall at Queen's College in Causeway Bay and added a diagonal shadow in the darkroom to symbolize that "her youth will fade away" since "everyone has the same destiny".<ref name=HKM-1211>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/hk-magazine/article/2034956/ho-fan-memory-hong-kongs-iconic-photographer |title=Ho Fan: In Memory of Hong Kong's Iconic Photographer |author=Ho, Fan |date=November 2012 |magazine=HK Magazine |publisher=South China Morning Post |accessdate=5 June 2017}}</ref> A print of "Approaching Shadow" sold for a record {{HK$|375,000}} in 2015.<ref name=SCMP-160622 />

==Film career== Ho was a Hong Kong film director and actor.

He joined Shaw Brothers in 1961 to develop his career in cinema. He started as a continuity assistant in the movie ''The Swallow'' (1961)<ref name=HKFDG>{{cite web |url=http://www.hkfilmdirectors.com/en/director/ho-fan |title=何藩 / HO Fan |date=2017 |publisher=Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild |website=The Ultimate Guide to HK Film Directors |accessdate=12 June 2017 |archive-date=1 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201192825/http://www.hkfilmdirectors.com/en/director/ho-fan |url-status=dead }}</ref> and moved on to act in several movies for Shaw. Ho played the Monk, Tripitaka, in the lavish Shaw Brothers adaption of ''Journey to the West'' four-picture cycle of films.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} Ho became disillusioned with Shaw's revenue-driven formula, and sought creative relief in photography and in other studios.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

During the early 1960s he also produced a series of independent short films, the first of which, ''Big City Little Man'' (大都市 小人物; 1963, 30 min), won the "Honor Award Certificate" from the Japan International Film Festival in 1964.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/en_US/web/hkfa/publications_souvenirs/pub/topicalvolumes/topicalvolumes_detail02.html |title=i-Generations: Independent, experimental and alternative creations from the 60s to now |editor=Fung, May |publisher=Hong Kong Film Archive |date=2001 |isbn=962-8050-13-3 |accessdate=6 June 2017}}</ref>

{{blockquote |text=People tell me it seems my photographic works have stories, have some drama. That’s why, later on, I became a film director. Both use images to tell their story, to express the emotions of the author. Photography and filmmaking are like sisters. One is still and one is moving—that is the only difference. |author=Ho Fan |source=2012 ''HK Magazine'' article<ref name=HKM-1211 />}}

Ho left Shaw Brothers in 1969 to develop his career as a director, making over 20 films with various studios in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has had three films in the "Official Selection" of the International Film Festivals of Cannes, Berlin and San Francisco; and five of his films have been selected in the "Permanent Collection" of the National Film Archives of Taiwan and Hong Kong.<ref name=HKFDG /> As well as his independent film work he worked in erotic cinema (Category III films), with such films as ''Adventure in Denmark'' (1973), ''The Girl with the Long Hair'' (1975) and ''Temptation Summary'' (1990).

According to Mark Pinsukanjana, director of Modernbook Gallery in San Francisco, CA, his debut feature, ''Lost'' (1969), was Ho's favourite. As Pinsukanjana says:

<blockquote>In ''Lost'', one will see the chaotic life of one man in Hong Kong. The film follows him and finds the beauty that surrounds him; he is lost because he never saw it. I think that one can say that this is similar to Fan Ho's photographs in the sense that Hong Kong is crowded, busy and chaotic to many, but for Fan Ho, he was able to convert [what he found] and find beauty."<ref name=studiointernational>{{cite web |url=https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/stillness-in-motion-the-photographs-of-fan-ho/ |title=Stillness in Motion: The Photographs of Fan Ho |author=Di Marzo, Cindi |publisher=Studio-international.co.uk |date=29 June 2006 |accessdate=22 May 2012}}</ref></blockquote>

He also served on the jury of the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards festival and Hong Kong Film Awards.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}

==Post-retirement career== 200px|thumb|"Fan Ho : Visual Dialogues" Exhibition at Sotheby's Hong Kong Gallery in 2017 Ho's wife and children emigrated to San Jose, California in 1979 to pursue a university education<ref name=SCMP-170620 /> and he followed in 1995 after retiring from cinema.<ref name=SCMP-160622>{{cite news |url=https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/1979279/ho-fan-celebrated-1950s-hong-kong-street-photographer-dies |title=Ho Fan, celebrated 1950s Hong Kong street photographer, dies in California |author=Cheung, Rachel |date=22 June 2016 |newspaper=South China Morning Post |accessdate=5 June 2017}}</ref> Restless in retirement, Ho's health began to decline until his family suggested that he pursue photography again. Rather than using modern equipment and taking photographs locally in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ho went through his old negatives from Hong Kong and began showing his portfolio to local galleries.<ref name=SCMP-170620 />

He exhibited slides of his photographs, some of which were in the permanent collection at SFMOMA, at the 1998 New Asian Cinema Festival, which was screening his 1988 film ''Carnal Desire'' at the 4 Star Theater in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Carnal-Desire-spiritual-journeys-3089238.php |title="Carnal Desire," spiritual journeys |author=Johnson, G. Allen |date=19 May 1998 |newspaper=San Francisco Examiner |accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref> A chance meeting with Mark Pinsukanjana in 1999 led to Ho being featured at Pinsukanjana's Modernbook Gallery in Palo Alto in 2000, his first solo exhibition since the 1960s,<ref name=SCMP-170620 /> and in 2001,<ref name=SJMN-131030>{{cite news |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2013/10/30/san-jose-photographer-fan-hos-timeless-visions-of-old-hong-kong/ |title=San Jose photographer Fan Ho's timeless visions of old Hong Kong |author=Chow, Crystal |date=30 October 2013 |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |accessdate=8 June 2017}}</ref> and Ho's films and photographs continued to be shown at festivals hosted at the 4 Star.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/8th-annual-Asian-Film-Festival-the-4-Star-s-2702334.php |title=8th annual Asian Film Festival -- the 4 Star's last picture show? |author=Johnson, G. Allen |date=10 August 2004 |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref> Ho's daughter credits the first Palo Alto exhibition in 2000 with restoring Ho's confidence and happiness.<ref name=SCMP-170620 />

Modernbook went on to stage his vintage work at photoLA in January 2006, and upon seeing his photographs of Hong Kong, fellow gallery owner Laurence Miller was moved to acquire 26 prints and put on a solo exhibit for Ho in New York City later that year.<ref name=studiointernational /> Ho would go on to publish a new monograph, ''Hong Kong Yesterday'' in 2006 after receiving international attention for this early work.<ref name=studiointernational /> By compositing old negatives, Ho continued to produce new prints of scenes that have now vanished from modern Hong Kong.<ref name=SCMP-140810 /><ref name=SJMN-131030 /> Many of the resulting composited prints were published for the first time in his final monograph ''A Hong Kong Memoir'' in 2014,<ref name=SCMP-141210>{{cite interview |url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/48hrs/article/1656431/inquisition-ho-fan-photographer |title=Ho Fan, Hong Kong photographer, on retrieving lost memories |interviewer=Edmund Lee |subject=Ho Fan |date=10 December 2014 |publisher=South China Morning Post |accessdate=6 June 2017}}</ref> following exhibits of the same title at Modernbook in summer 2011<ref>{{cite news |url=https://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/fan-hos-hong-kong-snapshots-bear-playful-theatricality/Content?oid=2178470 |title=Fan Ho's Hong Kong snapshots bear playful theatricality |author=Archer, Larissa |date=21 July 2011 |newspaper=San Francisco Examiner |accessdate=9 June 2017 |archive-date=11 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211131313/https://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/fan-hos-hong-kong-snapshots-bear-playful-theatricality/Content?oid=2178470 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and from December 2014 to January 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/fan-ho-photos-bring-mid-century-hong-kong-to-life/Content?oid=2915055 |title=Fan Ho photos bring mid-century Hong Kong to life |author=Katz, Anita |date=25 December 2014 |newspaper=San Francisco Examiner |accessdate=9 June 2017 |archive-date=11 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180211071859/https://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/fan-ho-photos-bring-mid-century-hong-kong-to-life/Content?oid=2915055 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He died in San Jose on 19 June 2016 of pneumonia at the age of 84.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/realtime/news/20160621/55256525|title=攝影界「一代宗師」何藩病逝 享年84歲|date=21 June 2016|accessdate= 21 June 2016|language=zh-hk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://petapixel.com/2016/06/21/photographer-fan-ho-dies-age-84/ |title=Photographer Fan Ho Dies at Age 84 |date=21 June 2016 |website=PetaPixel |accessdate=5 June 2017}}</ref> Posthumously, thirty-two photographs taken in 1950s Hong Kong as well as related objects, including his Rolleiflex camera and an early book, ''Thoughts on Street Photography'', were exhibited at Sotheby's Hong Kong gallery in the last half of June 2017.<ref name=PR-201706 /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2017/visual-dialogues-hong-kong-through-the-lens-of-fan-ho-hk0758.html |title=Exhibition no. HK0758, Visual Dialogues: Hong Kong through the Lens of Fan Ho |date=June 2017 |publisher=Sotheby's |accessdate=9 June 2017}}</ref> A new photo book, ''Portrait of Hong Kong'', was published in June 2017 to coincide with the exhibition.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |url=https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2096470/photographer-fan-hos-never-seen-hong-kong-images-show-exhibition-and |title=Photographer Fan Ho's never-before-seen Hong Kong images on show in exhibition and new book |author=Knott, Kylie |date=1 June 2017 |newspaper=South China Morning Post |accessdate=22 June 2017}}</ref> It was prefaced by the filmmaker John Woo.

''Portrait of Hong Kong'' 《念香港人的舊》<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.we-press.com/product/portrait-of-hong-kong/|title=The last Fan Ho Photography Collection《念⾹港人的舊 Portrait of Hong Kong》- WE Press|language=zh-hant|access-date=2019-06-06}}</ref> contains 153 new street photographs which were selected from 500 negatives chosen by Ho before he died in 2016. After his death, his surviving family members spent about a year completing the project, together with support from Sarah Greene (Blue Lotus Gallery) and WE Press (香港人出版). 20 quotable excerpts from Ho's earliest book, ''Thoughts on Street Photography'' 《街頭攝影叢談》, were included. These 153 photographs provide not only glimpses of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s but also recall the indomitable spirit of the people at the time.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=SCMP-170620>{{Cite news|url=https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2098441/how-fan-ho-hong-kongs-poet-camera-found-his|title=How Fan Ho, Hong Kong's poet with a camera, found his calling - in his own words|last=Heaver|first=Stuart|date=June 20, 2017|work=Post Magazine, South China Morning Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://zolimacitymag.com/hong-kong-revisited-through-the-eyes-of-the-late-street-photographer-fan-ho/|title=Hong Kong Revisited Through the Eyes of the Late Street Photographer Fan Ho|last=Karacs|first=Sarah|date=June 13, 2017|work=Zolima Citymag}}</ref> This body of realistic street photographs were never highly recognized during the 1950s and 1960s, despite being Ho's favorites,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coconuts.co/hongkong/lifestyle/never-seen-snaps-old-hong-kong-legendary-photographer-fan-ho-go-show/|title=Never-seen-before snaps of 'old Hong Kong' from legendary photographer Fan Ho to go on show|last=Hong Kong|first=Coconuts|website=Coconuts Hong Kong|date=31 May 2017}}</ref> as quoted in Ho's reply to Sarah Greene during one of her visits to Ho in early 2016. The quote appeared in the afterword of his latest monograph:

{{blockquote |text=My realistic street photos are rarely selected. Pictorial aesthetics and images with a sense of humor are still the key for salon photos but I expect changes to happen soon. In the meantime, I will just keep trying. |author=Fan Ho |source=Afterword by Sarah Greene in ''Portrait of Hong Kong''}}

Ho's family also established a website to celebrate his life and work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fanho-forgetmenot.com/about-us/ |title=About Us |author=The Fan Ho Trust Estate |date=2017 |website=Fan Ho Photography |accessdate=12 June 2017}}</ref>

==Works by Ho==

===Short films=== *''Big City Little Man'' / {{lang|zh|大都市 小人物}} (1963, 30 min, Hong Kong) *''Home Work'' / {{lang|zh|習作之}} (1966, 40 min, Hong Kong) *Gulf / 離 : (1966 Banbury England Best Film Award,<ref name="HKFDG" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fanho-forgetmenot.com/blog/2017/6/10/7xdk73o8i5k47tj67asjoyci2vytns|title=1966 Banbury England Best Film Award｜一九六六年英國「賓巴利國際電影節冠軍」|last=Fan Ho Trust Estate|website=Fan Ho Photography|date=11 June 2017 }}</ref> 15 min, Hong Kong)

===Feature films=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;" ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Market !! Production company !! Notes |- ! 1961 | ''Love Without End''<br/>《不了情》 | Actor<br/><small>(Tang's brother)</small> | rowspan=18 |Hong Kong | rowspan=16 |Shaw Brothers | |- ! 1963 | ''Revenge of a Swordswoman''<br/>《原野奇俠傳》 | Actor | |- ! 1964 | ''The Female Prince''<br/>《雙鳳奇緣》 | Actor<br/><small>(Hsiao's step-brother)</small> | |- ! rowspan=2 |1965 | ''Vermilion Door''<br/>《紅伶淚》 | Actor<br/><small>(Luo Shao-Hua)</small> | |- | ''Inside the Forbidden City''<br/>《宋宮秘史》 | Actor<br/><small>(Empress Di's son)</small> | |- ! rowspan=5 |1966 | ''The Perfumed Arrow''<br/>《女秀才》 | Actor<br/><small>(Wei Zhuan-Zi)</small> | |- | ''The Blue and the Black'' (Parts 1 and 2)<br/>《藍與黑》 (上) and (下) | Actor<br/><small>(Hui Ya's husband)</small> | |- | ''The Monkey Goes West''<br/>《西遊記》 | Actor<br/><small>(Monk Tang Xuan-Zang)</small> | {{efn |name=JttW}} |- | ''Princess Iron Fan''<br/>《鐵扇公主》 | Actor<br/><small>(Monk Tang Xuan-Zang)</small> | {{efn |name=JttW |Part of the four-film Shaw Brothers adaptation of ''Journey to the West''}} |- | ''The Joy of Spring''<br/>《歡樂青春》 | Actor | |- ! rowspan=4 |1967 | ''The Cave of the Silken Web''<br/>《盤絲洞》 | Actor<br/><small>(Monk Tang Xuan-Zang)</small> | {{efn |name=JttW}} |- | ''Madame Slender Plum'' aka ''Under the Spell of Love''<br/>《慾海情魔》 | Actor<br/><small>(David Xu)</small> | |- | ''Sweet Is Revenge''<br/>《大俠復仇記》 | Actor<br/><small>(David Li)</small> | |- | ''Susanna''<br/>《珊珊》 | Actor<br/><small>(Yu Chih Chien)</small> | |- ! 1968 | ''The Land of Many Perfumes''<br/>《女兒國》 | Actor<br/><small>(Monk Tang Xuan-Zang)</small> | {{efn |name=JttW}} |- ! rowspan=3 |1969 | ''The Millionaire Chase''<br/>《釣金龜》 | Actor<br/><small>(Sun Jia Wen)</small> | |- | ''Miss Fragrance'' aka ''The Lovely Girl''<br/>《香噴噴小姐》 | Actor<br/><small>(Dr. Lam Kin-Wah)</small> | Kam Bo Motion Picture Co. | |- | ''Lost''<br/>《迷》 | Director | | |- ! rowspan=5 |1970 | ''Feng Kuang Chia Jen''<br/>《瘋狂佳人》 | Actor | Taiwan | | |- | ''What's Good for a Goose''<br/>《大丈夫能屈能伸》 | Actor | Hong Kong | Ming Xing Film Company | |- | ''Golden Sword and the Blind Swordswoman''<br/>《金劍》 | Actor | rowspan=4 |Taiwan | Wa Ha Ying Yip Gung Shut | |- | ''The Great Wall''<br/>《孟姜女》 | Actor | Hong Kong Rong Hua Co.<br/>Lee Ming Film Co. | |- | ''From Home with Love''<br/>《警告逃妻》 | Actor | Ta Chung Motion Picture Co. | |- ! rowspan=2 |1971 | ''I Asked the Clouds''<br/>《問白雲》 | Actor | | |- | ''Song of Happy Life'' aka ''Naughty Songstress''<br/>《淘氣女歌手》 | Actor | rowspan=3 |Hong Kong | Kam Bo Motion Picture Co. | |- ! rowspan=3 |1972 | ''The Song of Thailand''<br/>《湄南河之歌》 | Actor | Tsun Lee Film Company | |- | ''Love and Blood''<br/>《血愛》 | Director | Wai Diy | |- | ''Golden Rose''<br/>《金玫瑰》 | Actor | Taiwan | Hong Kong Rong Hua Co.<br/>Lee Ming Film Co. | |- ! rowspan=2 |1973 | ''Adventure in Denmark''<br/>《春滿丹麥》 | Director | rowspan=10 |Hong Kong | Wai Diy | |- | ''Na Cha and the Seven Devils''<br/>《梅山收七怪》 | Actor<br/><small>(Qiu Ping)</small> | Shaw Brothers | |- ! 1974 | ''The Adventurous Air-Steward''<br/>《空中少爺》 | Director | Goldig Films (H.K.) Ltd. | |- ! rowspan=2 |1975 | ''The Miserable Girl''<br/>《昨夜星辰昨夜風》 | Director | | |- | ''Girl with the Long Hair''<br/>《長髮姑娘》 | Cinematographer, director | Shaw Brothers | |- ! 1976 | ''Body for Sale''<br/>《賣身》 | Director | Lo Wei Motion Picture Co., Ltd. | |- ! rowspan=2 |1977 | ''Innocent Lust''<br/>《初哥初女初夜情》 | Director | Shaw Brothers | |- | ''Go a Little Crazy'' aka ''Encore''<br/>《戇哥哥》 | Director | Daai Sing | |- ! rowspan=2 |1978 | ''The Notorious Frameup''<br/>《淫獸》 | Director | rowspan=2 | Shaw Brothers | |- | ''Hello Sexy Late Homecomers''<br/>《哈囉床上夜歸人》 | Director | |- ! 1980 | ''Two for the Road'' aka ''Taipei My Love''<br/>《台北吾愛》 aka 《姻緣道》 | Cowriter, Director | Taiwan | Seasonal Film Corporation | |- ! 1982 | ''Expensive Tastes''<br/>《花劫》 | Writer, director | rowspan=4 | Hong Kong | | |- ! 1985 | ''Smile Again''<br/>《花女情狂》 | Director | Golden Harvest | |- ! 1986 | ''Yu Pui Tsuen''<br/>《玉蒲團》 | Director | | |- ! rowspan=2 |1987 | ''Yu Pui Tsuen II''<br/>《浮世風情繪》 | Director | | |- | ''Carnal Desire'' aka ''The Locked Heart''<br/>《心鎖》 | Director | Taiwan | Tomson (Hong Kong) Films Co., Ltd. | |- ! 1988 | ''Brief Encounter''<br/>《慾燄濃情》 | Director | rowspan=3 | Hong Kong | Gam Sing (Jinxing) Film Company | |- ! 1989 | ''Erotic Nights''<br/>《夜激情》 | Writer, director | Mai Laan Din Ying Yau Haan Gung Shut | |- ! rowspan=2 |1990 | ''Temptation Summary''<br/>《三度誘惑》 | Director | Sam Po Film Co | |- | ''L'Air Du Temps''<br/>《豪門聖女》 aka 《時代之風》 | Director | Taiwan | | |- ! rowspan=2 |1991 | ''Hidden Desire''<br/>《我為卿狂》 | Director | rowspan=6 |Hong Kong | World Perfect Production Co., Ltd. | |- | ''Temptation Summary II''<br/>《四度誘惑》 | Director | rowspan=2 | Sam Po Film Co | |- ! 1992 | ''False Lady''<br/>《哎也女朋友》 | Executive Director, Producer | |- ! rowspan=2 |1993 | ''7 Days in Paris''<br/>《少女情懷總是詩》 | Producer | | |- | ''Wild at Heart''<br/>《不羈的心》 | Director, producer | Heung Gong Din Ying Chai Chok Gung Shut | |- ! 1994 | ''The Sichuan Concubines''<br/>《罌粟》 | Director | | |}

===Monographs=== *{{cite book |title=街頭攝影叢談 |trans-title=Thoughts on Street Photography |author=Ho |date=1960 |publisher=藝術圖書公司 |location=Taipei |oclc=40085019 |first=Fan}} * {{cite book |title=現代攝影欣賞 |trans-title=Modern Photography |author=Ho |date=1972 |publisher=藝術 |location=Taipei |oclc=82284319 |first=Fan}} * {{cite book |title=何藩國際大獎攝影全集 |trans-title=Complete collection of Ho Fan's international award-winning photographic art |author=Ho |date=1982 |publisher=歐語 |location=台北市 (Taipei) |first=Fan}} * {{cite book |url=http://modernbook.com/store/hongkongyesterday5thedition.html |title=Hong Kong Yesterday |author=Ho |editor=Bennette, John A. |quote=112 pages |date=June 2006 |publisher=Modernbook Editions |location=Palo Alto/San Francisco |isbn=978-0-97788-283-0 |accessdate=5 June 2017|first=Fan}} * {{cite book |url=http://modernbook.com/store/thelivingtheatre2ndedition.html |title=The Living Theatre |author=Ho |quote=176 pages |date=April 2009 |publisher=Modernbook Editions |location=Palo Alto/San Francisco |isbn=978-0-98010-443-1 |accessdate=5 June 2017|first=Fan}} * {{cite book |url=http://modernbook.com/store/ahongkongmemoir.html |title=A Hong Kong Memoir |author=Ho Fan |quote=128 pages |date=2014 |publisher=Modernbook Editions |location=Palo Alto/San Francisco |isbn=978-0-9908712-0-0 |accessdate=5 June 2017}} * {{cite book |url=https://www.we-press.com/en/product/fanho/ |title=Portrait of Hong Kong |author1=Ho |publisher=WE Press |location=Hong Kong |publication-date=June 2017 |page=220 |language=English, Chinese |trans-title=念香港人的舊 |date=Jun 2017 |isbn=978-988-79340-8-0 |accessdate=|first=Fan}} * {{cite book |last=Ho |first=Fan |author-link= |url=https://www.we-press.com/en/product/fanho2021/ |title=Photography. My Passion. My Life. |date=Oct 2021 |publisher=WE Press |isbn=978-988-79341-0-3 |location=Hong Kong |publication-date=Oct 2021 |page=200 |language=English, Chinese |trans-title=感情・感悟・感覺}} * {{Cite book |last=Ho |first=Fan |url=https://www.we-press.com/en/product/fanho2025/ |title=Thoughts On Street Photography |publisher=WE Press |date=July 2025 |isbn=978-988-79341-8-9 |location=Hong Kong |publication-date=July 2025 |pages=231 |language=Chinese |trans-title=街頭攝影叢談}}

==See also== * Ray Metzker * László Moholy-Nagy

==Notes== {{notelist|30em}}

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== *[http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=2244 Biography at Hong Kong Cinemagic] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407072612/http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=2244 |date=7 April 2020 }} * {{cite web |url=http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=3387&display_set=eng |title=何藩: Ho Fan (1) |publisher=Hong Kong Movie Database |accessdate=5 June 2017}} *{{IMDb name|nm0387293}} * {{cite interview |url=https://leicaliker.com/2013/01/11/fan-ho-hong-kong-master-street-photographer-1/ |title=FAN HO, Hong Kong Master Street Photographer #1 |interviewer=Elizabeth Wang-Lee (Ewanglee) |subject=Ho Fan |date=11 January 2013 |website=Leica Liker |accessdate=9 June 2017}} * {{cite web |url=http://fanho-forgetmenot.com |title=Fan Ho Photography |author=Family of Ho Fan |date=2017 |publisher=Estate of Ho Fan |accessdate=22 June 2017}}

==Online exhibitions== *[https://www.boredpanda.com/hong-kong-street-photography-memoir-fan-ho/ 1950s Hong Kong Captured In Street Photography By Fan Ho] * {{cite web |url=https://time.com/3800955/hong-kong-yesterday-the-pearl-of-the-orient-in-the-1950s/#1 |title=Hong Kong Yesterday: The Pearl of the Orient in the 1950s |author=Wallace, Vaughn |date=16 July 2013 |publisher=Time |website=Lightbox (blog) |access-date=9 June 2017}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.sothebys.com/content/sothebys/en/news-video/blogs/all-blogs/eye-on-asia/2017/05/1950s-hong-kong-Fan-Ho.html |title=1950s Hong Kong Captured by Fan Ho |date=30 May 2017 |publisher=Sotheby's |accessdate=22 June 2017}}

==Documentary videos== * {{vimeo |id=10023156 |title=Evening with Fan Ho (July 2009)}} * {{YouTube |id=tmnXHPjhSIM |title=The Art of Photography: Fan Ho (21 October 2014)}}

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