It was a major feat when, in December 1956, Marc Riboud became one of the first Western photographers to enter China after the Communist takeover of 1949. A member of the famed Magnum photo agency, Riboud was permitted to return to China at regular intervals over the next four decades, observing and recording the enormous changes that have taken place.
French journalist Jean Daniel provides a thoughtful introduction and Riboud himself comments on each photograph, explaining the time, the place, and the circumstance. This is a book that will intrigue and disturb - through its insights into the soul of the Chinese people, and through its picture of a nation transforming itself with such wrenching speed.
- ISBN10 0810944308
- ISBN13 9780810944305
- Publish Date 1 June 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 14 July 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Abrams
- Imprint Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
- Edition English language ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 175
- Language English