China

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  • Author: Yann Layma
  • Publisher: Harry N Abrams
  • Catalogue: 166385
  • Size: 20x25cm
Yann Layma’s “China” is a photographic portrait of China that gives an honest, comprehensive and awe-inspiring account of all aspects of modern China, its rural heartlands, urban centres and above all the kaleidoscope of people, in every walk of life and of every age. This beautifully presented paperback edition gives a down-to-earth, unembellished and cliché-free window into life in the world’s most populous country.

No Western photographer is as intimately acquainted with China as Yann Layma, who spent nearly half of his twenty-year career working there. Layma’s reportage of this vast country is extraordinarily complete: he portrays city and country, traditional customs and the shock of modernity, and every aspect of public and private life. His style is personal and poetic, and he is alive to nuances of gesture and expression. From the classical architecture of the Great Wall to the skyscrapers of up-to-the minute Shanghai, he captures the essence of one of the world’s great nations.

This edition includes essays & supporting text from Anne Loussouarn, Catherine Zittoun, Zao Wou-Ki, Dai Sijie, Jean Leclere du Sabon & Jose Frèches, and an introduction by Yann Layma himself

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