China - Hardcover

Layma, Yann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810946696 ISBN 13: 9780810946699

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003

Synopsis

The photographer Yann Layma has spent nine years in China and his reportage of this vast country includes town and country, tradition and modernity, and every aspect of public and private life. The pictures are complemented by essays from a group of highly-regarded writers.

About this title

About the Author:

Yann Layma has been a freelance photographer for more than 20 years. His work appears regularly in some of the world's foremost magazines, including Paris Match, GEO and the Sunday Times. Anne Loussouarn is a writer who collaborates with Layma on the story of his life and work in China. Catherine Zittoun is a writer, poet, and theater producer. Writer and director Zao Wou-ki is a Paris-based Chinese artist. Jose Freches is the former curator and specialist of Chinese art at the Musee Guimet and the Louvre in Paris. Jean Leclerc du Sablon was a correspondent for Le Figaro and L'Express in China for 30 years. Dai Sijie is the author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, which he adapted to the screen and directed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0810946696
• ISBN 13: 9780810946699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424