Manen, Bertien van.
East Wind West Wind. Afterword by Ian Buruma. English and Chinese text.
Amsterdam, De Verbeelding, 2001, 1st ed., 232 pag., coloured photographic illustrations and photo-illustrated card wrappers with flaps by Bertien van Manen, text in English and Chinese, quarto (26 x 20,2 cm.). = As new. Parr/ WassinkLundgren, The Chinese Photobook, p.398. 'Bertien van Manen is a recorder of intimacy.' 'To penetrate the privacy of other people's lives would take a great deal of tact anywhere. For a Dutch photographer to have found her way into the intimate corners of Chinese lives must have taken more than that. China, for all its hospitality, can be an intensely private place.' 'It is traditionally a country of walled cities, walled palaces, walled gardens, and walled family compounds. The family is still the basic unit that dominates most Chinese lives. And Bertien van Manen has penetrated those units, to show us how Chinese live, eat, touch, talk, and sleep in private. To have done this she must have been not only tactful, but persistant, curious and sympathetic. You can tell from her photographs that she was trusted. Even if she never sees them again, you feel that her subjects are her friends.

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