Yesterday's China

Following photography masters such as Cartier-Bresson, Marc Riboud, and Liu Heung Shing, this Western photographer has dedicated the longest and most extensive time photographing China. His works, which have been on the road for thirty years, are published in China for the first time. [Brief Introduction]
This book is based on Yan Lei's large-scale photography collection "China". It selects and supplements some unpublished photos and re-arranges them into a volume. It comprehensively presents China's daily life, economic takeoff and social changes in the transition period from 1985 to 2000, and uses the lens to create the most vivid and vital portrait of China as a whole.
The author is full of affection for China. He has traveled to every corner of China in the past thirty years and keenly captured the desire for change and obsession with new things in this country with heavy gray tones at the end of the 20th century. Through his perspective, he truly conveys the subtleties and intensity of the period of transition from the old to the new, and truly presents that period of history that is gradually fading away.
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When I was 16, I had a dream about my life in China. It was magical. In 1979, China began its reform and opening-up policy, issuing its first individual tourist visas to foreigners. I couldn't sleep when I heard the news. I wanted to learn photography, I wanted to learn Chinese, and I wanted to document China's reform and opening-up. They were calling me, and I had to go. So I came to China.
I don't regret this dream.
Yan Lei: Among foreign photographers who primarily photograph China, Yan Lei can probably be considered one of the best. He is on par with his predecessor, Marc Riboud.
——Na Risong

2015-03-01

北京联合出版公司

the new wave

360

9787550233508