Author: Kubota, Hiroji.
Title: Out of the East: transition and tradition in Asia.
Description: New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. Orig. cloth binding, 304 pp. Illustrated. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - Traditional low plaster and wood houses line a peaceful canal in North Korea while a pyramid-shaped hotel looms 1,000 feet high over Pyongyang, abandoned before it was finished. Gambling casinos rise above a bullfighting ring in Macau, and Padaung women sell traditional weavings to tourists while a motorcycle factory turns out half a million vehicles a year in Thailand. More than 200 magnificent color photographs in this oversized volume document the modernization and enormous productivity of eastern Asia set against the background of traditional life and culture, as seen through the keen eye and understanding of Hiroji Kubota. What started in Japan and Taiwan after World War II, and continued in Hong Kong and Korea, has now touched Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines an economic and social explosion, caught here by Kubota's sensitive lens. ISBN 9780393040883.

Keywords: PHOTOGRAPHY, Asia