China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic

Rae Yang, Sebastiao Salgado, Hiroji Kubota, Stuart Franklin, Liu Heung Shing, Wang Jinsong, Wu Jialin, Zhang Hai-Er, Lois Conner, Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Rae Yang,

ISBN 10: 0893818623 / ISBN 13: 9780893818623

Published by Aperture August 1999, 1999

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Photographs by Robert Capa, Lois Conner, Stuart Franklin, Zhang Hai-er, Wu Jialin, Wang Jinsong, Hiroji Kubota, Sebastiao Salgado, Liu Heung Shing, and Others A stirring tribute to china's land and people, and a lasting vision of the country within. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Aperture is publishing Imaging China. This magnificent volume unfolds a series of in-depth portfolios by twenty of the most important Chinese and Western photographers of the era, conveying the extent of their involvement in politics, culture, and everyday life. Together with texts by leading thinkers, writings by the photographers, and selections of ancient and modern poetry, this collection offers profound insight into a country that has been closed to the West for more than half of its existence. Drawn to China by its dramatic upheavals and its rich cultural legacy, the world's greatest photographers offer thrilling proof of the power of photography to explore-and convey-the human experience. From France's Henri Cartier-Bresson, present at the creation of the Republic in 1949, to China's Liu Heung Shing, who chronicled a society in transition following the death of Mao Tse-tung, to Wu Jialin and Stuart Franklin working today, the image makers represented here have created visions of China as broad and diverse as the country and its society. Imaging China is an extraordinary visual exploration of an extraordinary place and time. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks. wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic
• Publisher: Aperture August 1999
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0893818623
• ISBN 13: 9780893818623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used - Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography - World - Asia - China

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Synopsis

Prepared to accompany an exhibition that opened at the Asia Society in New York City in 1999, and is scheduled to travel to many venues through 2002, this stunning presentation of photos incorporates work from a long list of eminent photographers; complementing them is an intriguing essay by Rae Yang (East Asian studies, Dickinson College), who was born in 1950, in Beijing and was a member of the Red Guards before emigrating to the United States. The images begin with photos of leaders during the late 1930s, and move forward to the present day. The format is oversize: 12x10.5 inches. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Reviews

To mark this anniversary, Aperture has collected the images of 20 Chinese and Western photographers that convey China's political, cultural, and social life and bound those materials together with an essay by Rae Yang (The Spider Eaters, 1997) that discusses China's Communist past and its evolving present. The work is stunning, including the haunting and exhilarating photographs of Robert Capa (e.g., Female Nationalist Army Cadets, 1938) and Owen Lattimore; the captivating immediacy of Lin Heung Shing's work; Sebastiao Salgado's expressionistic compositions; and the painterly images of Hiroji Kirbota. An exhibit of the photographs opened in New York, will travel this month to Canada, and then come back to the U.S. from April 2000 until 2004. Bonnie Smothers