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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, 'Until death do us part', 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." (publisher's note, © Jiazazhi, 2015)
"'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, 'Until death do us part', 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." (publisher's note, © Jiazazhi, 2015)
- Photographer(s)
- anonymous
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Thomas SAUVIN (ed.)
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued but housed in a cigarette box), 5 x 8 x 2 cm., 108 pp., color ills.
- Language(s)
- no text
- Year of Release
- 2015
- Publisher
- Jiazazhi, CN