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Thomas SauvinUNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)

Thomas Sauvin – UNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)

Photographs: Thomas Sauvin

Publisher: Jiazazhi Press

108 pages

Pictures: 50

Year: 2015

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Until Death Do Us Part 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 o f an 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 half a million negatives salvaged over the years from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing.

 

 

Illustratred hardcover, included in a cigarette box, 5,3 x 8,3cm. First edition signed by Thomas Sauvin.
Thomas Sauvin – UNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)Thomas Sauvin – UNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)Thomas Sauvin – UNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)Thomas Sauvin – UNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)Thomas Sauvin – UNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)Thomas Sauvin – UNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)Thomas Sauvin – UNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)Thomas Sauvin – UNTIL DEATH DO US PART (First edt Signed)

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