About this title: For Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang, "Double Happiness" is an extremely personal project: "For years, my folks had been bugging me to get married," he says, "and I wanted to show them how I view marriage in Taiwan. I'm not anti-marriage . . . but I had to do something to protest." That was in 1994, and thus began Chang's fascination with the Taiwanese wedding industry. "Double Happiness" is the maturation of this original impetus. His first work on the topic was classically photojournalistic in approach, following the mainstream wedding industry as it manufactured strangers into brides ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Aperture
Date Published: 3-31-05
ISBN-13:9781931788564ISBN:1931788561
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the boards (no dust jacket), and remainder mark to one edge-NICE! 1.45 lbs. read more
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Signed by Artist. 1931788561 Corners gently bumped. Signed and dated by Chien-Chi Chang on front free endpaper. read more
Description: Satisfaction Guaranteed. Shipped quickly. 2005. Hardcover. illustrated edition Ed. Used, very good. Very good overall with light to moderate wear. No dust jacket. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: aperture, New York:
Date Published: 2005.
ISBN-13:9781931788564ISBN:1931788561
Description: Fine. Essay by Claudia Glenn Dowling. Marriage brokers recruit young Vietnamese women to come to Ho Chi Minh City where they are viewed by groups of Taiwanese men. Each of them pays a fee to select a suitable bride from the line-up. Within days of meeting the couples will be married. This photo-essay records the process to its final moments of the wedding kiss. "One of the saddest preludes to happiness ever composed, both direct and ironic, sympathetic and humane. And who knows? Perhaps the ... read more
Description: Fine. In very good condition with cover, spine and pages clean and intact. Neatly stored. International orders via air mail except large books. read more
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