Great Leaps Forward Collectors Edition
- Signed
- Used
Seller: ROCKET, London, United KingdomROCKET
AbeBooks seller since August 19, 2013
Condition: Used - As new
£ 340.00
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Size 14,5 x 30 cm Choice of 3 images Limited edition of 20 copies per image Silver Print Enlarger, paper baryta Ilford 1K Great Leaps Forward unveils a series of photos drawn from a plastic bag bought in a Beijing flea market in 2016. Sealed tightly with a knot, the bag had settled there unnoticed for many decades. Upon opening the bag, over 300 photos were discovered, taken by an anonymous member of the Xi’an Physical Education University’s department of Photography. All the images, meticulously depicting various athletes in action, often defying gravity, were shot on the same field during a bright day of June 1960. To date, these images are the only photographic record that collector and artist Thomas Sauvin found from the time of The Great Leap Forward (1958-1962). During these years, a chaotic industrialization campaign meant to transform China from an agrarian economy to a new communist regime rooted in industry and large-scale agricultural production led to the deadliest famine of human history. Any photographic documentation from these years remains extremely rare. In this posthumous collaboration with an anonymous photographer, this publication invites us to contemplate a strangely metaphorical aerial ballet on the margins of history. Signed.…
Seller Inventory # ABE-1790420852909
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Great Leaps Forward Collectors Edition
- Author
- Thomas Sauvin
- Condition
- As new
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Edition
- Special Edition
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Based in London, Rocket works with contemporary artists from Britain, Europe and the United States including: Michelle Grabner, Charles Christopher Hill, Gerold Miller, Martin Parr, Will Taylar and Lars Wolter. Alongside the contemporary program Rocket also exhibits abstract artists from the 1960s. In recent exhibitions Rocket has branched out into exhibiting mid 20th century Danish design. In the gallery bookshop Rocket stocks books on art, photography and design - both new titles and out of print books, with an emphasis on signed and deluxe editions.…
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