A look at 60 years of transformation in China from the Magnum archives.
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Great work! Would be better to include more as these are really only some part of China, but would be hard. Some photoes are not easy to understand without documentation though, if you are not a Chinese:)
It is always interesting to see what China is like in other people's view. Thanks for the work!
To Roberto Pazo, I'm a Chinese and happen to be in university during that period(which makes me a part of it). Just curious what you think or believe happened there?
Comment posted by Bill Yu (not verified) on July 16th, 2009
No reference to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacre...... why???
Comment posted by ROBERTO PAZO (SPAIN) (not verified) on July 6th, 2009
Great work. Some beautiful and powerful images (of course)...I particularly loved the strong symbolism in many of the photos. It seems to be lacking in images of the harsh and terrifying nature of Mao's Cultural Revolution. I geuss it is probably because of difficulty in obtaining access to China for foreigners at that time. Does seem some more agknowledgement of that particular crime against humanity would be fitting...
Otherwise - a wonderful collection.
Comment posted by Jarrod (not verified) on April 21st, 2009
Powerful. The medium speaks clearly. Captions would would weaken the communication.
Comment posted by Utopia Way (not verified) on August 11th, 2008
Really enjoyable visually, but for a person unfamiliar with China, some sort of captioning option would be nice - either text or a thumbnail map with pin-prick. Call me an ethnographic stickler, but some reference to locale and month of year would give nice context. Keep going strong, Magnum!
Comment posted by g p witteveen (not verified) on August 4th, 2008
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