In this division will be presented attractant pictures about the different and singular aspects of the marvellous China“s countryside.
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CHINA: 50 Years Inside the People“s Republic Rae Yang (Author), Eve Arnold (Photographer), Robert Capa (Photographer), Lois Conner (Photographer), Robert Glenn Ketchum (Photographer), Sebastiao Salgado (Photographer) EDITION: Aperture; (August 31, 1999) Photographs by Robert Capa, Lois Conner, Stuart Franklin, Zhang Hai-er, Wu Jialin, Wang Jinsong, Hiroji Kubota, Sebastićo 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.
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China“s Splendors Charles Schoenfeld, Staff of China Pictorial (Editor), Hugh Lauter Levin Associates EDITION: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates; (January 30, 2001) Ever since Marco Polo first returned from the Far East with exotic treasures and wondrous stories, China has been a land of great fascination to the Western world. One of the world“s oldest civilizations developed there on some of the most strikingly beautiful land in the world. From the verdant mountains and clear waters of the Lijiang River valley, to the majestic Great Wall, to the sculptured gardens of West Lake in Hangzhou, China“s Splendors displays a range of visual treasures.
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SPECTACULAR CHINA Chinese EDITION: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates; (October 1, 1997) This book has the best photos of scenes around China that I have ever seen. I love the photos, but have been very disappointed in the quality of the binding. It is not strong enough to support such large, heavy pages.
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China Yann Layma EDITION: Harry N. Abrams; (November 1, 2003) No Western photographer is as intimately acquainted with China as Yann Layma, who speaks Chinese and has spent nine years working there over the course of a 20-year career. Layma“s reportage of this vast country is extraordinarily complete:
Twenty years of travelling constituts a unique photographic testimony of China. Yann Layma“s impressionist eye depicts his love for color and light http://www.yannlayma.com/