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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.9951
EAN: 9780810944305
Edition: English language ed
ISBN: 0810944308
Label: Harry N. Abrams
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 175
Publication Date: February 01, 1997
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Studio: Harry N. Abrams
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
Marc Riboud's images are a window on a world in transition as China reinvents itself with dizzying speed--his is as revealing a window as we are likely to find. The contrast between China old and new, as interpreted by Riboud, is an often startling one that cannot help but inform and intrigue. He specializes in the juxtaposition of images, perhaps none are more jarring than his photograph of a poor man lugging a sack of belongings down a trash-littered back street while a pair of chubby-cheeked babies glance over his shoulder in a nearby poster and a porno actress bares her chest in an ad overhead. Riboud's home is France, his territory is the world from Vietnam to Iran, but his heart and soul are apparently in the China he has covered from the days of Mao's revolution through the erosion of Communism to the country's modern economic upheaval.
Product Description:
In 1956 Marc Riboud became one of the first Western photographers to enter China since the Communist takeover of 1949--and he was permitted to return regularly over the next four decades. This book presents his compelling record of the far-reaching and rapid changes that have taken place as China has evolved through the revolutionary era into a puritanical tyranny, and finally into a mirror of the capitalist West. 150 duotone photos.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
My wife (who is Chinese) and I have spent hours with this book
and find it endlessly fascinating. The quality of the photographs
and printing is excellent. It is like a window into a lost and
changing world.
There is considerable overlap with Riboud's earlier collection
of photographs from China. If you only buy one of these,
I recommend this one. The photographs are better and the
printing quality is much higher.
Rating:  -
This is a welly printed photographic book on China by photographer Marc Ribond. The page layout is neat especially with old and new images printed on facing pages. This is not just a great photographic book but also a record of new China history.
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