Thomas Sauvin – Until Death Do Us Part
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- Category: Book
- Topic: Culture, Photography
- Publisher: Beijing Silvermine, Jiazazhi Press
- Country: China
- Language: Chinese, English
- Release: 2015
- Cover: Hardcover
- Binding: Perfect
- Size: 5.3 x 8.3 cm
- Pages: 108
Until Death Do Us Part by Thomas Sauvin focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited. The bride and the groom are then invited to play some cigarette-smoking games of unprecedented ingenuousness. This publication pays homage to a tradition in which love and death walk hand in hand.
These photos come from the Beijing Silvermine project, an archive of 850,000 negatives salvaged over the last ten years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing. Beijing Silvermine offers a unique photographic portrait of the Chinese capital and the life of its inhabitants in the decade following the Cultural Revolution.
