Publisher/Pacifique

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"Chine" is a collection of works by French photographer Bruno Barbey (1941–2020). One of Magnum Photos' leading figures, he has long followed China's transformation, capturing on camera the complex intersection of politics and everyday life, tradition and modernity. This book primarily documents China from the period following the Cultural Revolution through the period of reform and opening up. Using subdued colors and a calm gaze, he portrays the contradictions behind rapid growth and the resilient humanity that remains in everyday life. The collective nature of ceremonies, the structures that mark the development of factories and cities, and the everyday expressions of markets and street corners—all of these simultaneously tell the grand story of the nation and the individual lives that live within it. Having witnessed many historical turning points, including battlefields, Barbey's photographs do not critically distance themselves from the reality before them, but instead remain close to the complexities inherent therein. "Chine" is a book that examines the light and shadows of a transforming great nation with distance and respect. French edition.